From: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
To: "Hu, Jiayu" <jiayu.hu@intel.com>,
"yang_y_yi@163.com" <yang_y_yi@163.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: "mark.b.kavanagh@intel.com" <mark.b.kavanagh@intel.com>,
"olivier.matz@6wind.com" <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
"thomas@monjalon.net" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"yangyi01@inspur.com" <yangyi01@inspur.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] gso: fix free issue of mbuf gso segments attach to
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:39:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BYAPR11MB3301BB7E22FF7268741D094F9A040@BYAPR11MB3301.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43f71e6c9d2f4d5ba3ab56a921c5912d@intel.com>
> > rte_gso_segment decreased refcnt of pkt by one, but
> > it is wrong if pkt is external mbuf, pkt won't be
> > freed because of incorrect refcnt, the result is
> > application can't allocate mbuf from mempool because
> > mbufs in mempool are run out of.
> >
> > One correct way is application should call
> > rte_pktmbuf_free after calling rte_gso_segment to free
> > pkt explicitly. rte_gso_segment mustn't handle it, this
> > should be responsibility of application.
>
> GSO doesn't support the input pktmbuf has external buffer.
> Indeed, requiring users to free the input pktmbuf can avoid
> memory leak, but I'm afraid that it also changes the semantic
> of rte_gso_segment() which is defined in rte_gso.h.
>
> @Konstantin, any suggestions?
Probably, a stupid question, but why can't we call mbuf_free()
here instead fo decrementing refcnt manually:
if (ret > 1)
rte_pktmbuf_free(pkt);
else if ...
?
>
> Thanks,
> Jiayu
> >
> > Fixes: 119583797b6a ("gso: support TCP/IPv4 GSO")
> > Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yangyi01@inspur.com>
> > ---
> > doc/guides/prog_guide/generic_segmentation_offload_lib.rst | 7 +++++--
> > lib/librte_gso/rte_gso.c | 9 +--------
> > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/generic_segmentation_offload_lib.rst
> > b/doc/guides/prog_guide/generic_segmentation_offload_lib.rst
> > index 205cb8a..8577572 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/generic_segmentation_offload_lib.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/generic_segmentation_offload_lib.rst
> > @@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ Bearing that in mind, the GSO library enables DPDK
> > applications to segment
> > packets in software. Note however, that GSO is implemented as a
> > standalone
> > library, and not via a 'fallback' mechanism (i.e. for when TSO is unsupported
> > in the underlying hardware); that is, applications must explicitly invoke the
> > -GSO library to segment packets. The size of GSO segments ``(segsz)`` is
> > -configurable by the application.
> > +GSO library to segment packets, they also must call ``rte_pktmbuf_free()`` to
> > +free mbuf GSO segments attach to after calling ``rte_gso_segment()``. The
> > size
> > +of GSO segments ``(segsz)`` is configurable by the application.
> >
> > Limitations
> > -----------
> > @@ -233,6 +234,8 @@ To segment an outgoing packet, an application must:
> >
> > #. Invoke the GSO segmentation API, ``rte_gso_segment()``.
> >
> > +#. Call ``rte_pktmbuf_free()`` to free mbuf ``rte_gso_segment()`` segments.
> > +
> > #. If required, update the L3 and L4 checksums of the newly-created
> > segments.
> > For tunneled packets, the outer IPv4 headers' checksums should also be
> > updated. Alternatively, the application may offload checksum calculation
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_gso/rte_gso.c b/lib/librte_gso/rte_gso.c
> > index 751b5b6..0d6cae5 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_gso/rte_gso.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_gso/rte_gso.c
> > @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
> > uint16_t nb_pkts_out)
> > {
> > struct rte_mempool *direct_pool, *indirect_pool;
> > -struct rte_mbuf *pkt_seg;
> > uint64_t ol_flags;
> > uint16_t gso_size;
> > uint8_t ipid_delta;
> > @@ -80,13 +79,7 @@
> > return 1;
> > }
> >
> > -if (ret > 1) {
> > -pkt_seg = pkt;
> > -while (pkt_seg) {
> > -rte_mbuf_refcnt_update(pkt_seg, -1);
> > -pkt_seg = pkt_seg->next;
> > -}
> > -} else if (ret < 0) {
> > +if (ret < 0) {
> > /* Revert the ol_flags in the event of failure. */
> > pkt->ol_flags = ol_flags;
> > }
> > --
> > 1.8.3.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-13 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-10 3:10 yang_y_yi
2020-10-13 7:28 ` Hu, Jiayu
2020-10-13 15:39 ` Ananyev, Konstantin [this message]
2020-10-14 1:00 ` Hu, Jiayu
2020-10-14 2:56 ` yang_y_yi
2020-10-14 12:05 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-10-15 5:14 ` Hu, Jiayu
2020-10-15 16:16 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-10-16 0:53 ` Hu, Jiayu
2020-10-16 8:31 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-10-19 3:17 ` Hu, Jiayu
2020-10-19 6:44 ` yang_y_yi
2020-10-19 8:47 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2020-10-20 1:16 ` yang_y_yi
2020-10-19 2:29 ` yang_y_yi
2020-10-19 2:20 ` yang_y_yi
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