[PATCH 00/20] pktmbuf free bulk cleanups
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri May 8 22:33:21 CEST 2026
Looking at one driver noticed that rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
was not being used. That motivated me to make a coccinelle
script to do a tree wide cleanup.
Then noticed that callers were having to check for NULL
before calling rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk, so changed it to
handle NULL array similar to free() and rte_free().
Do another tree wide pass to fix that and catch some
other unnecessary null checks in code.
Stephen Hemminger (20):
devtools/cocci: add transform for rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
eventdev: use rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
gso: use rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
ip_frag: use rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
pipeline: use rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
port: use rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
net/af_xdp: use rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
net/cnxk: use rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
net/pfe: use rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
net/virtio: use rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
net/zxdh: use rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
app/compress-perf: use rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
mbuf: allow NULL array in rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
net/zxdh: remove unnecessary null check
net/ice: remove unnecessary null check
net/bnxt: remove unnecessary null check
test: use rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
app/test-dma-perf: remove unnecessary null check
app/test-compress-perf: remove unnecessary null check
examples: use rte_pktmbuf_free_bulk
.../comp_perf_test_common.c | 8 +--
app/test-compress-perf/main.c | 6 +-
app/test-dma-perf/benchmark.c | 6 +-
app/test/sample_packet_forward.c | 5 +-
app/test/test_distributor.c | 4 +-
app/test/test_dmadev.c | 6 +-
app/test/test_ipfrag.c | 4 +-
app/test/test_link_bonding.c | 13 ++---
app/test/test_pmd_perf.c | 3 +-
app/test/test_pmd_tap.c | 3 +-
app/test/test_reorder.c | 12 ++--
app/test/test_table_ports.c | 12 ++--
app/test/test_table_tables.c | 21 +++----
devtools/cocci/free_bulk.cocci | 57 +++++++++++++++++++
devtools/cocci/nullfree.cocci | 5 +-
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_07.rst | 5 ++
drivers/net/af_xdp/rte_eth_af_xdp.c | 3 +-
drivers/net/bnxt/tf_core/v3/tfo.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/bnxt/tf_ulp/ulp_sc_mgr.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/cnxk/cnxk_ethdev.c | 5 +-
drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_sched.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/pfe/pfe_ethdev.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c | 20 +++----
drivers/net/zxdh/zxdh_np.c | 3 +-
drivers/net/zxdh/zxdh_queue.c | 7 +--
drivers/net/zxdh/zxdh_rxtx.c | 3 +-
examples/bbdev_app/main.c | 4 +-
examples/l2fwd-crypto/main.c | 4 +-
.../client_server_mp/mp_client/client.c | 7 +--
.../client_server_mp/mp_server/main.c | 5 +-
examples/ntb/ntb_fwd.c | 12 ++--
examples/packet_ordering/main.c | 5 +-
examples/server_node_efd/efd_node/node.c | 7 +--
examples/server_node_efd/efd_server/main.c | 5 +-
examples/vhost/main.c | 3 +-
lib/eventdev/rte_event_eth_tx_adapter.c | 4 +-
lib/gso/gso_common.c | 5 +-
lib/ip_frag/rte_ipv6_fragmentation.c | 4 +-
lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.c | 3 +
lib/mbuf/rte_mbuf.h | 1 +
lib/pipeline/rte_pipeline.c | 4 +-
lib/port/rte_port_fd.c | 6 +-
lib/port/rte_swx_port_fd.c | 8 +--
lib/port/rte_swx_port_source_sink.c | 6 +-
44 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 174 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 devtools/cocci/free_bulk.cocci
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