[PATCH v4 25/27] net/ice: avoid rte malloc in MAC address operations

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Mon Feb 16 18:33:16 CET 2026


On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 10:26:36AM +0000, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> Currently, when adding or deleting MAC addresses, 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
> calloc/free.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>



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