RE: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix the timing of releasing drop action

[Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 8, 2024 5:23 AM
> To: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Raslan
> Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>; Dariusz Sosnowski
> <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>;
> Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix the timing of releasing drop action
> 
> When creating the drop action Devx object, the global counter set is also used
> as in the regular or hairpin queue creation.
> 
> The drop action should be destroyed before the global counter set release
> procedure. Or else, the counter set object is still referenced and cannot be
> released successfully. This would cause the counter set resources to be
> exhausted after starting and stopping the ports repeatedly.
> 
> Fixes: 65b3cd0dc39b ("net/mlx5: create global drop action")
> Cc: suanmingm@nvidia.com
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>
Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh