buffers: major cleanup and improvements

This patch introduces following changes:
- deprecated free lists which are not used and not compatible
  with external buffer managers (i.e. DPDK)
- introduces native support for per-numa buffer pools
- significantly improves performance of buffer alloc and free

Change-Id: I4a8e723ae47056717afd6cac0efe87cb731b5be7
Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/vlib/main.h b/src/vlib/main.h
index c6786d8f788..920e5f3f95a 100644
--- a/src/vlib/main.h
+++ b/src/vlib/main.h
@@ -115,9 +115,6 @@ typedef struct vlib_main_t
   /* Size of the heap */
   uword heap_size;
 
-  /* Pool of buffer free lists. */
-  vlib_buffer_free_list_t *buffer_free_list_pool;
-
   /* buffer main structure. */
   vlib_buffer_main_t *buffer_main;