[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/i40e: fix unexpected mbuf free in vPMD

Ananyev, Konstantin konstantin.ananyev at intel.com
Mon Oct 9 14:44:25 CEST 2017


Hi Zhang,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Qi Zhang
> Sent: Monday, October 9, 2017 9:54 AM
> To: Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu at intel.com>; Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/i40e: fix unexpected mbuf free in vPMD
> 
> The patch reset tx queue sw_ring's mbuf to NULL after it is free in
> i40_tx_free_bufs, this prevent same mbuf be free again in
> i40e_dev_tx_queue_release. This fix follow the same implemenation of
> non-vPMD.

Wonder why we can't change i40e_dev_tx_queue_release() instead, 
so it will only go through the TXDs that were really armed?
Let say from txq->tx_next_dd - tx_rs_thresh - 1 till txq->tx_tail?
Let say _ixgbe_tx_queue_release_mbufs_vec() works that way.
Then we probably can keep our runtime code intact.
Konstantin

> 
> Fixes: b4669bb95038 ("i40e: add vector Tx")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_common.h | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_common.h b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_common.h
> index 39a6da0..ed51b4d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_common.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_common.h
> @@ -124,11 +124,13 @@ i40e_tx_free_bufs(struct i40e_tx_queue *txq)
>  	  */
>  	txep = &txq->sw_ring[txq->tx_next_dd - (n - 1)];
>  	m = rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg(txep[0].mbuf);
> +	txep[0].mbuf = NULL;
>  	if (likely(m != NULL)) {
>  		free[0] = m;
>  		nb_free = 1;
>  		for (i = 1; i < n; i++) {
>  			m = rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg(txep[i].mbuf);
> +			txep[i].mbuf = NULL;
>  			if (likely(m != NULL)) {
>  				if (likely(m->pool == free[0]->pool)) {
>  					free[nb_free++] = m;
> @@ -145,6 +147,7 @@ i40e_tx_free_bufs(struct i40e_tx_queue *txq)
>  	} else {
>  		for (i = 1; i < n; i++) {
>  			m = rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg(txep[i].mbuf);
> +			txep[i].mbuf = NULL;
>  			if (m != NULL)
>  				rte_mempool_put(m->pool, m);
>  		}
> --
> 2.9.5



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