[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] virito: fix reuse index in nested loop
Tan, Jianfeng
jianfeng.tan at intel.com
Mon Jun 13 11:11:57 CEST 2016
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 4:58 PM
> To: Tan, Jianfeng
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Xie, Huawei
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] virito: fix reuse index in nested loop
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 10:05:45AM +0000, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
> > This patches fixes problem of reusing index of outmost loop in nested
> > loops. This bug will lead to failure when starting a multi queue
> > virtio device: rx queues (except from the first one) cannot be started,
> > expecially their vq_ring cannot be initialized, so that when invoking
> > rx func on these queues, segment fault happens.
> >
> > Fixes: a900472aedef ("virtio: split virtio Rx/Tx queue")
>
> Good catch!
>
> > Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> > 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
> > index 2e7205b..b96d0cb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c
> > @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ virtio_dev_rxtx_start(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
> > * - Allocate blank mbufs for the each rx descriptor
> > *
> > */
> > - int i;
> > + int i, j;
>
> However, I don't quite like using "i, j, k" stuff. So, how about
> renaming "j" to "ring_idx"?
>
> > PMD_INIT_FUNC_TRACE();
> >
> > @@ -352,15 +352,18 @@ virtio_dev_rxtx_start(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
> > error = ENOSPC;
> >
> > #ifdef RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_SSSE3
> > - if (use_simple_rxtx)
> > - for (i = 0; i < vq->vq_nentries; i++) {
> > - vq->vq_ring.avail->ring[i] = i;
> > - vq->vq_ring.desc[i].flags =
> VRING_DESC_F_WRITE;
> > + if (use_simple_rxtx) {
> > + uint16_t k;
>
> We could reuse "ring_idx" here; no need to define yet another iterate var
> for that.
Make sense. Besides, since comparison between unsigned and signed is a violation to static code analyzer, I'll redefine these variables as unsigned.
Such as,
int i -> uint16_t q_idx
int j -> uint16_t r_idx
k -> r_idx
Thanks,
Jianfeng
>
> --yliu
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