From: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
To: "Olivier Matz" <olivier.matz@6wind.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>, <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
<stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mbuf: fix reset on mbuf free
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 14:18:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35C614E2@smartserver.smartshare.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201218125238.13074-1-olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Matz
>
> m->nb_seg must be reset on mbuf free whatever the value of m->next,
> because it can happen that m->nb_seg is != 1. For instance in this
> case:
>
> m1 = rte_pktmbuf_alloc(mp);
> rte_pktmbuf_append(m1, 500);
> m2 = rte_pktmbuf_alloc(mp);
> rte_pktmbuf_append(m2, 500);
> rte_pktmbuf_chain(m1, m2);
> m0 = rte_pktmbuf_alloc(mp);
> rte_pktmbuf_append(m0, 500);
> rte_pktmbuf_chain(m0, m1);
>
> As rte_pktmbuf_chain() does not reset nb_seg in the initial m1
> segment (this is not required), after this code the mbuf chain
> have 3 segments:
> - m0: next=m1, nb_seg=3
> - m1: next=m2, nb_seg=2
> - m2: next=NULL, nb_seg=1
>
> Then split this chain between m1 and m2, it would result in 2 packets:
> - first packet
> - m0: next=m1, nb_seg=3
> - m1: next=m2, nb_seg=2
I think you mean:
- m0: next=m1, nb_seg=2 //< nb_seg corrected
- m1: next=NULL, nb_seg=2 //< next corrected
> - second packet
> - m2: next=NULL, nb_seg=1
>
> Freeing the first packet will not restore nb_seg=1 in the second
> segment. This is an issue because it is expected that mbufs stored
> in pool have their nb_seg field set to 1.
>
> Fixes: 8f094a9ac5d7 ("mbuf: set mbuf fields while in pool")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
The code looks good, so:
Acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-18 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-04 17:00 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Olivier Matz
2020-11-05 0:15 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-11-05 7:46 ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-05 8:26 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-11-05 9:10 ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-05 11:34 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-11-05 12:31 ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-05 13:14 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-11-05 13:24 ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-05 13:55 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-11-05 16:30 ` Morten Brørup
2020-11-05 23:55 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-11-06 7:52 ` Morten Brørup
2020-11-06 8:20 ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-06 8:50 ` Morten Brørup
2020-11-06 10:04 ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-06 10:07 ` Morten Brørup
2020-11-06 11:53 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-11-06 12:23 ` Morten Brørup
2020-11-08 14:16 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-11-08 14:19 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-11-10 16:26 ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-05 8:33 ` Morten Brørup
2020-11-05 9:03 ` Olivier Matz
2020-11-05 9:09 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-11-08 7:25 ` Ali Alnubani
2020-12-18 12:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Olivier Matz
2020-12-18 13:18 ` Morten Brørup [this message]
2020-12-18 23:33 ` Ajit Khaparde
2021-01-06 13:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Olivier Matz
2021-01-10 9:28 ` Ali Alnubani
2021-01-11 13:14 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-01-13 13:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Olivier Matz
2021-01-15 13:59 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " David Marchand
2021-01-15 18:39 ` Ali Alnubani
2021-01-18 17:52 ` Ali Alnubani
2021-01-19 8:32 ` Olivier Matz
2021-01-19 8:53 ` Morten Brørup
2021-01-19 12:00 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-19 12:27 ` Morten Brørup
2021-01-19 14:03 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-19 14:21 ` Morten Brørup
2021-01-21 9:15 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-19 14:04 ` Slava Ovsiienko
2021-07-24 8:47 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-30 12:36 ` Olivier Matz
2021-07-30 14:35 ` Morten Brørup
2021-07-30 14:54 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-30 15:14 ` Olivier Matz
2021-07-30 15:23 ` Morten Brørup
2021-08-04 13:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add known issue with mbuf segment Thomas Monjalon
2021-08-04 14:25 ` Ajit Khaparde
2021-08-05 6:08 ` Morten Brørup
2021-08-06 14:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-08-06 14:24 ` Morten Brørup
2021-09-28 8:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4] mbuf: fix reset on mbuf free Thomas Monjalon
2021-09-28 9:00 ` Slava Ovsiienko
2021-09-28 9:25 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-09-28 9:39 ` Morten Brørup
2021-09-29 8:03 ` Ali Alnubani
2021-09-29 21:39 ` Olivier Matz
2021-09-30 13:29 ` Ali Alnubani
2021-10-21 8:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-01-21 9:19 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-21 9:29 ` Morten Brørup
2021-01-21 16:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdklab] " Lincoln Lavoie
2021-01-23 8:57 ` Morten Brørup
2021-01-25 17:00 ` Brandon Lo
2021-01-25 18:42 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-06-15 13:56 ` [dpdk-dev] " Morten Brørup
2021-09-29 21:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Olivier Matz
2021-09-30 13:27 ` Ali Alnubani
2021-10-21 9:18 ` David Marchand
2022-07-28 14:06 ` CI performance test results might be misleading Morten Brørup
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