Memory Management in the Communications Framework

This topic describes essential memory management aspects of the Communications Framework.

• Overview
  This topic describes memory management in the Communications Framework.
• Shared Buffers
  This topic explains the concepts of shared buffers and shared-buffer pools.
• Comms Buffers (MBuf) ans Comms Chains
  This topic describes Comms buffers (MBuf) and Comms chains.
• Data Access Example
  This example describes typical processing of the data in an RMBufChain.
• Advanced Pond Guide
  This topic describes Comms ponds in more detail.
• Allocation Tutorial
  This tutorial describes how to allocate MBufs (for data source components in the Data Plane).
• Allocation Strategy
  
• TLS Look-up Reduction Tutorial
  This task describes how to reduce Thread Local Storage (TLS) look-ups when allocating MBufs.
• Memory Metrics
  
• Pond Configuration Reference
  This topic describes the file that configures the Comms pond.