[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] netvsc: resize event buffer as needed

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Aug 13 19:22:27 CEST 2018


On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 08:51:08 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:

> The event buffer was changed to be a fixed size value, but it
> is not large enough for a forwarding stress test.
> 
> This version of event buffer code uses malloc/realloc to size
> the event buffer as needed. Malloc is preferred over rte_malloc
> because the event buffer does not need to be used for DMA
> and huge page is a limited resource.
> 
> Fixes: 530af95a7849 ("bus/vmbus: avoid signalling host on read")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>

Self NAK. This won't work when secondary process needs the buffer.


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