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Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3] net/mlx5: fix deadlock due to buffered
 slots in Rx SW ring
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On 10/10/2017 3:04 PM, Yongseok Koh wrote:
> When replenishing Rx ring, there're always buffered slots reserved between
> consumed entries and HW owned entries. These have to be filled with fake
> mbufs to protect from possible overflow rather than optimistically
> expecting successful replenishment which can cause deadlock with
> small-sized queue.
> 
> Fixes: fc048bd52cb7 ("net/mlx5: fix overflow of Rx SW ring")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Reported-by: Martin Weiser <martin.weiser@allegro-packets.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
> Tested-by: Martin Weiser <martin.weiser@allegro-packets.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.