[PATCH22.11 v1] net/mlx5: fix age checking crash

Luca Boccassi luca.boccassi at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 13:13:28 CET 2025


On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 at 08:17, Rongwei Liu <rongweil at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> When aging is configured, there is a background thread
> which queries all the counters in the pool.
>
> Meantime, per queue flow insertion/deletion/update changes
> the counter pool too. It introduces a race condition between
> resetting counters's in_used and age_idx fields during flow deletion
> and reading them in the background thread.
>
> To resolve it, all key members of counter's struct
> are placed in a single uint32_t and they are accessed atomically.
>
> To avoid the occasional timestamp equalization with age_idx,
> query_gen_when_free is moved out of the union. The total memory
> size is kept the same.
>
> Fixes: 04a4de756e14 ("net/mlx5: support flow age action with HWS")
> Cc: michaelba at nvidia.com
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> Signed-off-by: Rongwei Liu <rongweil at nvidia.com>

Hi,

I cannot seem to find a reference to this patch on the main branch?
Was it merged with a different commit?


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