Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATC 19.11] net/mlx5: fix flow split combined with counter

[Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 10:59 AM Viacheslav Ovsiienko
<viacheslavo@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> From: Dekel Peled <dekelp@nvidia.com>
>
> [ upstream commit 63f4d5693ed8459f8867a23d0b87cf9c60983767 ]

Thanks, applied

> Currently, for a flow containing a count action, if flow is split to
> sub-flows, a new counter will be created for each sub-flow.
> However only the counter created for the last sub-flow will be queried
> on flow query and cleared on flow removal.
>
> This behavior is wrong, causing a leak of resources.
> Need to create just one counter per flow, and use it for all sub-flows.
>
> This patch adds the required check to make sure a counter is
> created just once per flow, and used by all sub-flows.
>
> Fixes: fa2d01c87d2b ("net/mlx5: support flow aging")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c | 13 +++++++------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c
> index cea45a6d96..42ae1bbe2c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c
> @@ -7377,12 +7377,13 @@ __flow_dv_translate(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
>                                 rte_errno = ENOTSUP;
>                                 goto cnt_err;
>                         }
> -                       flow->counter = flow_dv_counter_alloc(dev,
> -                                                             count->shared,
> -                                                             count->id,
> -                                                             dev_flow->group);
> -                       if (flow->counter == NULL)
> -                               goto cnt_err;
> +                       if (!flow->counter) {
> +                               flow->counter = flow_dv_counter_alloc
> +                                               (dev, count->shared,
> +                                                count->id, dev_flow->group);
> +                               if (flow->counter == NULL)
> +                                       goto cnt_err;
> +                       }
>                         dev_flow->dv.actions[actions_n++] =
>                                 flow->counter->action;
>                         action_flags |= MLX5_FLOW_ACTION_COUNT;
> --
> 2.18.1
>


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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd