[PATCH] dumpcap: fix mbuf pool ring type

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 08:22:37 +0100
Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com> wrote:

> > >
> > > Or are you saying that if they want to use dumpcap, they must choose  
> > a thread safe pool type for their application (regardless if the
> > application is single-threaded or not)?
> > 
> > There is no command line of EAL nature in dumpcap.
> > This is intentional.
> > QED: overriding default pool type is not going to be a possible  
> 
> The preferred mbuf pool type can configured in the primary process by EAL params. If so configured, it is stored in a memzone named "mbuf_user_pool_ops".
> And if it is set there, the secondary process will also use it as its preferred mbuf pool type.

If user decides to use a thread unsafe mempool, wouldn't it break in every PMD as well.