Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/i40e: fix unexpected mbuf free in vPMD

["Roger B. Melton" <rmelton@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
>>>>
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