[PATCH v1 0/3] net/ntnic: fix virt queue data in BSS

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue,  8 Sep 2026 18:27:21 +0200
Serhii Iliushyk <sil-plv at napatech.com> wrote:

> This series addresses the bug report "ntnic: virt queue data in BSS"
> (Bugzilla ID: 1975). The report lists five problems with keeping the
> virt queue state in static arrays; each is addressed as follows.
> 
> - BSS memory is slower than hugepages because of TLB overhead, which
>   can cause performance loss in the hot path.
>   The per-queue state, and the copy of the packet buffer descriptors
>   indexed on every burst, are now allocated from the EAL heap.
> 
> - Hard coding the size wastes space.
>   The 128-entry Rx and Tx arrays are gone; one object is allocated
>   per configured queue and freed when the queue is released.
> 
> - Data in BSS is not visible to a secondary process.
>   The state now lives in EAL memory. The PMD still does not support
>   primary/secondary operation, but this no longer stands in the way.
> 
> - NUMA aware allocation was not possible.
>   Both allocations are made with rte_zmalloc_socket() on the NUMA
>   node of the adapter, next to the rings and buffers they describe.
> 
> - Cache alignment.
>   The queue object is cache line aligned and no longer shares a line
>   with a neighboring queue.
> 
> Patch 1 drops two never-called setup ops so that only the managed
> setup and release paths own the queue state. Patch 2 makes a failed
> hardware setup visible to the caller, which patch 3 relies on to free
> the queue object on failure. Patch 3 is the fix itself; it also fixes
> a leak of the descriptor copy on queue re-setup and an ignored
> allocation failure that led to a NULL dereference in the burst
> functions.
> 
> Serhii Iliushyk (3):
>   net/ntnic: remove unused unmanaged virt queue setup ops
>   net/ntnic: check virt queue hardware setup result
>   net/ntnic: fix virt queue data in BSS
> 
>  drivers/net/ntnic/dbsconfig/ntnic_dbsconfig.c | 334 +++++++++++-------
>  drivers/net/ntnic/ntnic_ethdev.c              |  52 ++-
>  drivers/net/ntnic/ntnic_mod_reg.h             |  30 --
>  3 files changed, 245 insertions(+), 171 deletions(-)
> 

Looks good, applied to next-net.