[PATCH v5 15/27] net/i40e: avoid rte malloc in DDP ptype handling

Anatoly Burakov anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Tue Feb 17 13:14:04 CET 2026


Currently, when updating customized protocol and packet type information
via DDP packages, we are using rte_zmalloc followed by immediate rte_free.
This is not needed as these buffers are only used temporarily within
the function scope, so replace it with regular malloc/free.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c | 25 ++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
index ac465c90a4..8a56f05eeb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
@@ -11788,7 +11788,7 @@ i40e_update_customized_pctype(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint8_t *pkg,
 	}
 
 	buff_size = pctype_num * sizeof(struct rte_pmd_i40e_proto_info);
-	pctype = rte_zmalloc("new_pctype", buff_size, 0);
+	pctype = calloc(pctype_num, sizeof(struct rte_pmd_i40e_proto_info));
 	if (!pctype) {
 		PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to allocate memory");
 		return -1;
@@ -11799,7 +11799,7 @@ i40e_update_customized_pctype(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint8_t *pkg,
 					RTE_PMD_I40E_PKG_INFO_PCTYPE_LIST);
 	if (ret) {
 		PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to get pctype list");
-		rte_free(pctype);
+		free(pctype);
 		return -1;
 	}
 
@@ -11880,7 +11880,7 @@ i40e_update_customized_pctype(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint8_t *pkg,
 		}
 	}
 
-	rte_free(pctype);
+	free(pctype);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -11926,7 +11926,7 @@ i40e_update_customized_ptype(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint8_t *pkg,
 	}
 
 	buff_size = ptype_num * sizeof(struct rte_pmd_i40e_ptype_info);
-	ptype = rte_zmalloc("new_ptype", buff_size, 0);
+	ptype = calloc(ptype_num, sizeof(struct rte_pmd_i40e_ptype_info));
 	if (!ptype) {
 		PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to allocate memory");
 		return -1;
@@ -11938,15 +11938,14 @@ i40e_update_customized_ptype(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint8_t *pkg,
 					RTE_PMD_I40E_PKG_INFO_PTYPE_LIST);
 	if (ret) {
 		PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to get ptype list");
-		rte_free(ptype);
+		free(ptype);
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	buff_size = ptype_num * sizeof(struct rte_pmd_i40e_ptype_mapping);
-	ptype_mapping = rte_zmalloc("ptype_mapping", buff_size, 0);
+	ptype_mapping = calloc(ptype_num, sizeof(struct rte_pmd_i40e_ptype_mapping));
 	if (!ptype_mapping) {
 		PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to allocate memory");
-		rte_free(ptype);
+		free(ptype);
 		return -1;
 	}
 
@@ -12084,8 +12083,8 @@ i40e_update_customized_ptype(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint8_t *pkg,
 	if (ret)
 		PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to update ptype mapping table.");
 
-	rte_free(ptype_mapping);
-	rte_free(ptype);
+	free(ptype_mapping);
+	free(ptype);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -12120,7 +12119,7 @@ i40e_update_customized_info(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint8_t *pkg,
 	}
 
 	buff_size = proto_num * sizeof(struct rte_pmd_i40e_proto_info);
-	proto = rte_zmalloc("new_proto", buff_size, 0);
+	proto = calloc(proto_num, sizeof(struct rte_pmd_i40e_proto_info));
 	if (!proto) {
 		PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to allocate memory");
 		return;
@@ -12132,7 +12131,7 @@ i40e_update_customized_info(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint8_t *pkg,
 					RTE_PMD_I40E_PKG_INFO_PROTOCOL_LIST);
 	if (ret) {
 		PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to get protocol list");
-		rte_free(proto);
+		free(proto);
 		return;
 	}
 
@@ -12170,7 +12169,7 @@ i40e_update_customized_info(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint8_t *pkg,
 	if (ret)
 		PMD_DRV_LOG(INFO, "No ptype is updated.");
 
-	rte_free(proto);
+	free(proto);
 }
 
 /* Create a QinQ cloud filter
-- 
2.47.3



More information about the dev mailing list