patch 'net/ngbe: reduce memory size of ring descriptors' has been queued to stable release 24.11.4

Kevin Traynor ktraynor at redhat.com
Fri Nov 21 12:20:09 CET 2025


Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 24.11.4

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 11/26/25. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Also note that after the patch there's a diff of the upstream commit vs the
patch applied to the branch. This will indicate if there was any rebasing
needed to apply to the stable branch. If there were code changes for rebasing
(ie: not only metadata diffs), please double check that the rebase was
correctly done.

Queued patches are on a temporary branch at:
https://github.com/kevintraynor/dpdk-stable

This queued commit can be viewed at:
https://github.com/kevintraynor/dpdk-stable/commit/899e35e519d9a687d20c00830efb6bc73803d8a7

Thanks.

Kevin

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>From 899e35e519d9a687d20c00830efb6bc73803d8a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu at trustnetic.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:15:27 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] net/ngbe: reduce memory size of ring descriptors

[ upstream commit 22d4fffbbc99ef2a229869e717a12b2e33c68a9c ]

The memory of ring descriptors was allocated in size of the maximum ring
size. It seems not friendly to our hardware on some domestic platforms.
Change it to allocate in size of the real ring size.

Fixes: 43b7e5ea60ac ("net/ngbe: support Rx queue setup/release")

Signed-off-by: Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu at trustnetic.com>
---
 drivers/net/ngbe/ngbe_rxtx.c | 20 +++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ngbe/ngbe_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/ngbe/ngbe_rxtx.c
index 42cb33dbfe..467f1cc9c8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ngbe/ngbe_rxtx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ngbe/ngbe_rxtx.c
@@ -2059,11 +2059,7 @@ ngbe_dev_tx_queue_setup(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	/*
-	 * Allocate Tx ring hardware descriptors. A memzone large enough to
-	 * handle the maximum ring size is allocated in order to allow for
-	 * resizing in later calls to the queue setup function.
-	 */
+	/* Allocate Tx ring hardware descriptors. */
 	tz = rte_eth_dma_zone_reserve(dev, "tx_ring", queue_idx,
-			sizeof(struct ngbe_tx_desc) * NGBE_RING_DESC_MAX,
+			sizeof(struct ngbe_tx_desc) * nb_desc,
 			NGBE_ALIGN, socket_id);
 	if (tz == NULL) {
@@ -2325,4 +2321,5 @@ ngbe_dev_rx_queue_setup(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 	struct ngbe_adapter *adapter = ngbe_dev_adapter(dev);
 	uint64_t offloads;
+	uint32_t size;
 
 	PMD_INIT_FUNC_TRACE();
@@ -2358,11 +2355,8 @@ ngbe_dev_rx_queue_setup(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 	rxq->offloads = offloads;
 
-	/*
-	 * Allocate Rx ring hardware descriptors. A memzone large enough to
-	 * handle the maximum ring size is allocated in order to allow for
-	 * resizing in later calls to the queue setup function.
-	 */
+	/* Allocate Rx ring hardware descriptors. */
+	size = (nb_desc + RTE_PMD_NGBE_RX_MAX_BURST) * sizeof(struct ngbe_rx_desc);
 	rz = rte_eth_dma_zone_reserve(dev, "rx_ring", queue_idx,
-				      RX_RING_SZ, NGBE_ALIGN, socket_id);
+				      size, NGBE_ALIGN, socket_id);
 	if (rz == NULL) {
 		ngbe_rx_queue_release(rxq);
@@ -2374,5 +2368,5 @@ ngbe_dev_rx_queue_setup(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 	 * Zero init all the descriptors in the ring.
 	 */
-	memset(rz->addr, 0, RX_RING_SZ);
+	memset(rz->addr, 0, size);
 
 	rxq->rdt_reg_addr = NGBE_REG_ADDR(hw, NGBE_RXWP(rxq->reg_idx));
-- 
2.51.0

---
  Diff of the applied patch vs upstream commit (please double-check if non-empty:
---
--- -	2025-11-21 11:05:10.396695281 +0000
+++ 0025-net-ngbe-reduce-memory-size-of-ring-descriptors.patch	2025-11-21 11:05:09.408200935 +0000
@@ -1 +1 @@
-From 22d4fffbbc99ef2a229869e717a12b2e33c68a9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 899e35e519d9a687d20c00830efb6bc73803d8a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
@@ -5,0 +6,2 @@
+[ upstream commit 22d4fffbbc99ef2a229869e717a12b2e33c68a9c ]
+
@@ -11 +12,0 @@
-Cc: stable at dpdk.org
@@ -19 +20 @@
-index a60421293b..03ada844bf 100644
+index 42cb33dbfe..467f1cc9c8 100644



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