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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: wangyunjian <wangyunjian@huawei.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, keith.wiles@intel.com, jerry.lilijun@huawei.com,
	xudingke@huawei.com, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 3/5] net/tap: fix check for mbuf's nb_segs failure
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 08:38:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200407083846.674ca9e4@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7da1388e-c4c6-27d5-f038-0526a39d9a8c@intel.com>

On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 16:15:16 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:

> > +static void
> > +tap_rxq_pool_free(struct rte_mbuf *pool)
> > +{
> > +	struct rte_mbuf *mbuf = pool;
> > +	uint16_t nb_segs = 1;
> > +
> > +	if (mbuf == NULL)
> > +		return;
> > +
> > +	while (mbuf->next) {
> > +		mbuf = mbuf->next;
> > +		nb_segs++;
> > +	}
> > +	pool->nb_segs = nb_segs;
> > +	rte_pktmbuf_free(pool);
> > +}  

Since mbuf is going to be free, why bother with nb_segs.
Since rte_pktmbuf_free takes NULL as an argument, and frees the m->next chain
I don't see why not just
	rte_pktmbuf_free(pool)




  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-07 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-07  4:23 [dpdk-dev] " wangyunjian
2020-04-07 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-04-07 15:38   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-04-07 15:45     ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-04-07 15:49       ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-04-07 16:08       ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-08  1:10         ` wangyunjian
2020-04-07 15:58   ` Ferruh Yigit

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