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From: "Roger B. Melton" <rmelton@cisco.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>,
	konstantin.ananyev@intel.com, jingjing.wu@intel.com,
	beilei.xing@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/i40e: fix unexpected mbuf free in vPMD
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 07:15:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b6ac998-b13e-3b3a-74a6-6bff54349dd2@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c3a1cbd-e28a-a9cc-ed46-e08dc03644ce@cisco.com>

On 10/10/17 7:47 AM, Roger B. Melton wrote:
> On 10/10/17 7:39 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 07:05:33AM -0400, Roger B. Melton wrote:
>>> Hi Bruce,
>>>
>>> I can.  It will take a day or 2 to get the results.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Roger
>>>
>> Thanks. Keep us posted. We want to ensure we have the best fix possible
>> for the issue in this release.
>
> Thanks for finding a better solution ;-).  I'll let you know the 
> results when I have them, just wanted you to know it may take a couple 
> of days to turn around.
>
> -Roger

Confirmed that this patch does address the issue.  Thanks again Bruce/Qi 
for finding a better alternative.

Regards, Roger
>
>>
>> /Bruce
>>
>>> On 10/10/17 4:48 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>>>> +Roger Melton
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 09:22:05AM -0400, Qi Zhang wrote:
>>>>> vPMD tx does not set sw_ring's mbuf to NULL after free it.
>>>>> So to prevent same mbuf be free again, we need more carefully
>>>>> check in i40e_tx_queue_release_mbufs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: b4669bb95038 ("i40e: add vector Tx")
>>>>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> v2:
>>>>> - fix at i40e_tx_queue_release_mbufs so no performance impact.
>>>>>
>>>> This patch also supercedes this one, 
>>>> http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/29814/
>>>> right?
>>>> Roger, can you please confirm that this alternative fix works in your
>>>> testing and that your patch is no longer necessary too.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> /Bruce
>>>>
>>>> .
>>>>
>> .
>>
>
> .
>

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-12 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-10 13:22 [dpdk-dev] " Qi Zhang
2017-10-10  8:48 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-10-10 11:05   ` Roger B. Melton
2017-10-10 11:39     ` Bruce Richardson
2017-10-10 11:47       ` Roger B. Melton
2017-10-12 11:15         ` Roger B. Melton [this message]
2017-10-12 11:30           ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Richardson, Bruce
2017-10-12 17:28 ` Ferruh Yigit

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