[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] examples/helloworld: add eal clean up to the example

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Thu Apr 8 13:21:44 CEST 2021


On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 12:17 PM Min Hu (Connor) <humin29 at huawei.com> wrote:
>
> From: Chengchang Tang <tangchengchang at huawei.com>
>
> According to the programming guide, the rte_eal_init should be used pairs
> with rte_eal_cleanup.
>
> So, we should add the use of clean up to the hello world example to
> encourage new users of DPDK to use it.
>
> Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")

rte_eal_cleanup() was introduced with aec9c13c5257 ("eal: add function
to release internal resources") from v18.02.

Other examples probably need fixes too.
$ git grep -l rte_eal_init examples/ |xargs grep -L rte_eal_cleanup |wc
     52      52    1623


-- 
David Marchand



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