Intel FAST_FREE offload question

Morten Brørup mb at smartsharesystems.com
Fri Feb 21 17:58:21 CET 2025


Intel NIC folks,

Why do the Intel network drivers, when using RTE_ETH_TX_OFFLOAD_MBUF_FAST_FREE, fall back to normal freeing when the mempool cache is empty (cache->len == 0)? It doesn't make sense to me.

Example:
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/drivers/net/intel/common/tx.h#n146

Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
-Morten Brørup




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