[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] lib/librte_vhost: update used->idx when allocation of mbuf fails

Linhaifeng haifeng.lin at huawei.com
Tue Mar 24 08:46:32 CET 2015



On 2015/3/24 15:14, Xie, Huawei wrote:
> On 3/22/2015 8:08 PM, Ouyang, Changchun wrote:
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: linhaifeng [mailto:haifeng.lin at huawei.com]
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 9:47 AM
>>> To: dev at dpdk.org
>>> Cc: Ouyang, Changchun; Xie, Huawei
>>> Subject: [PATCH v3] lib/librte_vhost: update used->idx when allocation of
>>> mbuf fails
>>>
>>> From: Linhaifeng <haifeng.lin at huawei.com>
>>>
>>> When failed to malloc buffer from mempool we just update last_used_idx
>>> but not used->idx so after many times vhost thought have handle all packets
>>> but virtio_net thought vhost have not handle all packets and will not update
>>> avail->idx.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Linhaifeng <haifeng.lin at huawei.com>
>> Acked-by: Changchun Ouyang <changchun.ouyang at intel.com>
>>
>>
>>
> Acked-by: Huawei Xie <huawei.xie at intel.com>
> 
> This patch fix the issue.
> Simple solution like other PMDs is before processing one descriptor,
> ensure allocation of new mbuf is successfull, and then immediately
> refill after receiving the packet from the descriptor.
> In future, we should consider optimized bulk allocation strategy with
> threshold.
> 

Hi, huawei

THis is patch is for librte_vhost.
Do you want to ack for the other patch for virtio-net-pmd?
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Regards,
Haifeng



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