[dpdk-dev] [RFC] Abi breakage for rte_mempool to reduce footprint

2016-01-28 Thread Wiles, Keith
Hi Everyone, Currently every mempool created has a footprint of 1.5Megs of memory just for the struct rte_mempool, this also includes all of the rte_pktmbuf creates as well. The issue is the local_cache adds about 1.5Megs of memory, which is a huge amount IMHO for non-cached based mempools. Wit

[dpdk-dev] [RFC] ABI breakage for rte_mempool to reduce footprint

2016-01-28 Thread Wiles, Keith
Hi Everyone, Currently every mempool created has a footprint of 1.5Megs of memory just for the struct rte_mempool, this also includes all of the rte_pktmbuf creates as well. The issue is the local_cache adds about 1.5Megs of memory, which is a huge amount IMHO for non-cached based mempools. Wi