Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 0/2] fix mbufs leakage during Rx queue release on ixgbe/i40e

[Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 03:52:25PM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Bruce Richardson <
> bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > > This patch set fixes problem when mbufs are not released back to the
> > > original memory pool during Rx queue relese call leading to mbufs
> > > "leakage".
> > >
> > > This issue happens when device stop (rte_eth_dev_stop()) will be called
> > > after device start (rte_eth_dev_start()) without any incoming packets
> > > received since device start. In this case both rxq->rx_tail and
> > > rxq->rxrearm_start equal to 0 and release cycle will not be executed.
> > > On the next device start (rte_eth_dev_start()) new set of mbufs for the
> > > RX queue will be allocated.
> > >
> > > Yury Kylulin (2):
> > >   net/ixgbe: fix mbufs leakage during Rx queue release
> > >   net/i40e: fix mbufs leakage during Rx queue release
> > >
> > Applied to dpdk-next-net/rel_16_11
> >
> 
> I don't know the underlying code well enough,

Me, neither.

> but given the description I'd
> expect that qualifies for the stable tree?

But, yes, I agree with Christian.

> Set stable@dpdk on cc.

Thanks for doing that.

	--yliu