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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] netvsc: resize event buffer as needed
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:59:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ce7bbd5d-8e13-4940-61b7-59f89a1b5fb8@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180814164525.10703-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>

On 8/14/2018 5:45 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The event buffer was changed to be a fixed size value,
> had a couple of issues. The big one is that rte_free was still
> being called for a pointer that was not setup with rte_malloc().
> 
> The event buffer was also too small to handle heavy receive
> traffic; and running the event buffer out would crash
> the application.
> 
> Fix by going back to a dynamically resized event buffer.
> And grow it by 25% to avoid lots of realloc's.
> 
> Fixes: 530af95a7849 ("bus/vmbus: avoid signalling host on read")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>

    Cc: stable@dpdk.org

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

      reply	other threads:[~2018-08-23 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-14 16:45 Stephen Hemminger
2018-08-23 15:59 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]

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