From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Michael Pfeiffer <michael.pfeiffer@tu-ilmenau.de>
Cc: ferruh.yigit@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: reduce interface name size
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 08:23:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191115082328.71782fa3@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191115114107.30737-1-michael.pfeiffer@tu-ilmenau.de>
On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 12:41:07 +0100
Michael Pfeiffer <michael.pfeiffer@tu-ilmenau.de> wrote:
> The name in rte_kni_device_info is passed to the kernel, which allows
> interface names with at most 16 bytes (IFNAMSIZ). rte_kni_alloc with a
> longer name currently trigger a kernel BUG in alloc_netdev_mqs in
> net/core/dev.c. Reduce RTE_KNI_NAMESIZE to prevent this situation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Pfeiffer <michael.pfeiffer@tu-ilmenau.de>
Why not kill the NAMESIZE define in KNI and use the kernel one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-15 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-15 11:41 Michael Pfeiffer
2019-11-15 12:30 ` Igor Ryzhov
2019-11-15 12:43 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-11-15 12:43 ` Michael Pfeiffer
2019-11-15 12:49 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-11-15 12:52 ` Michael Pfeiffer
2019-11-15 13:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Michael Pfeiffer
2019-11-15 13:30 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-11-19 21:02 ` David Marchand
2019-11-15 16:23 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2019-11-19 12:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Ferruh Yigit
2019-11-19 20:58 ` David Marchand
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