[PATCH v2 10/26] net/i40e: avoid rte malloc in RSS RETA operations

Anatoly Burakov anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Tue Feb 10 17:13:39 CET 2026


Currently, when updating or querying RSS redirection table (RETA), we
are using rte_zmalloc followed by an immediate rte_free. This is not
needed as this memory is not being stored anywhere, so replace it with
regular malloc/free.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
index 06430e6319..654b0e5d16 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
@@ -4630,7 +4630,7 @@ i40e_dev_rss_reta_update(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	lut = rte_zmalloc("i40e_rss_lut", reta_size, 0);
+	lut = calloc(1, reta_size);
 	if (!lut) {
 		PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "No memory can be allocated");
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -4649,7 +4649,7 @@ i40e_dev_rss_reta_update(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 	pf->adapter->rss_reta_updated = 1;
 
 out:
-	rte_free(lut);
+	free(lut);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -4673,7 +4673,7 @@ i40e_dev_rss_reta_query(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	lut = rte_zmalloc("i40e_rss_lut", reta_size, 0);
+	lut = calloc(1, reta_size);
 	if (!lut) {
 		PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "No memory can be allocated");
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -4690,7 +4690,7 @@ i40e_dev_rss_reta_query(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 	}
 
 out:
-	rte_free(lut);
+	free(lut);
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.47.3



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