MEMPOOL_DESTROY

Section: Memory Management in Linux (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME

mempool_destroy - deallocate a memory pool  

SYNOPSIS

void mempool_destroy(mempool_t * pool);
 

ARGUMENTS

pool

pointer to the memory pool which was allocated via mempool_create.
 

DESCRIPTION

this function only sleeps if the free_fn function sleeps. The caller has to guarantee that all elements have been returned to the pool (ie: freed) prior to calling mempool_destroy.  

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