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Background

ICMP messages are used by network devices, including routers, to send error messages and operational information indicating success or failure when communicating with another IP address. Examples include errors indicating when a requested service is not available or when a host or router could not be reached. We've

Bug Report

Current Behavior
If an NF tries to send a message to another NF using the onvm_nflib_send_msg_to_nf() function it will allocate memory to store the message and then enqueue the message for the other NF. If the enqueue fails (because the destination NF's ring is full), then the allocated memory will never be freed.

https://github.com/sdnfv/openNetVM/blob/61ce33a4ca6d3d76

This is an optimization to reduce the time it takes to build/deploy YAStack.

Compilation of YAStack can be optimized by pre-compiling source code that does not depend on DPDK. This can help build the image faster since now only DPDK and dependent code will have to be compiled.