[PATCH v4 2/5] bpf: use bulk free on filtered packets
Konstantin Ananyev
konstantin.ananyev at huawei.com
Thu Nov 6 08:25:45 CET 2025
> When rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk is faster because it does single
> mempool operation rather than per-packet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> ---
> lib/bpf/bpf_pkt.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/bpf/bpf_pkt.c b/lib/bpf/bpf_pkt.c
> index 01f813c56b..087ac0f244 100644
> --- a/lib/bpf/bpf_pkt.c
> +++ b/lib/bpf/bpf_pkt.c
> @@ -177,8 +177,7 @@ apply_filter(struct rte_mbuf *mb[], const uint64_t rc[],
> uint32_t num,
>
> if (drop != 0) {
> /* free filtered out mbufs */
> - for (i = 0; i != k; i++)
> - rte_pktmbuf_free(dr[i]);
> + rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk(dr, k);
> } else {
> /* copy filtered out mbufs beyond good ones */
> for (i = 0; i != k; i++)
> --
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at huawei.com>
> 2.51.0
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