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From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Meir Tseitlin <mirots@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] rte_pktmbuf_alloc fails
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 09:26:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4032649.DyNZWczOjm@platinum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+Typ9kU8bPfT-9Be9O6uRAK-YWyJYAiMbtoCtbvXy4jQM-nJA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Meir,

On Tuesday, April 01, 2014 02:53:47 PM Meir Tseitlin wrote:
> I think I found the problem - it was solved by manually calling
> rte_pktmbuf_free for each packet.
> It seems that rte_pktmbuf_free is not automatically called from
> within rte_eth_tx_burst if packets are sent to pcap device.

By looking at the eth_pcap_tx(pkts, nb_pkts) function, I think it may not work
properly. I think it should return nb_pkts instead of num_tx. Indeed, if
pcap_sendpacket() fails -- I don't know in which case it can occur -- the
function will return a number lower than nb_pkts, causing a caller like
l2fwd_send_burst() to free some mbufs. But all mbufs are already freed
by eth_pcap_tx().

I don't know if it's related to your problem but it may help.

Regards,
Olivier

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-07  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-01 11:08 Meir Tseitlin
2014-04-01 11:53 ` Meir Tseitlin
2014-04-07  7:26   ` Olivier MATZ [this message]
2014-04-07  8:53     ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2014-04-17 15:00       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-05-22 15:47         ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-05-22 15:51           ` Ananyev, Konstantin

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