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From: Andriy Berestovskyy <aber@semihalf.com>
To: "Javier Coleto Fernández" <javicoleto44@gmail.com>
Cc: users <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] mbuf free cnt not decreasing
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:21:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOysbxqQ78cavhAJV8WJXViN2YKO5-KmxJHbT0bFugOyDMG-rA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABbgvkvYVic4xHxPnsmep-Gch14PBBaAcb8rdW2ZN1sf2b6E6g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Javier,
Please make sure you check the return value of rte_kni_tx_burst() and
rte_eth_tx_burst() and free the unsent mbufs. Might be something
else...

Overall the technique should be the same as with memory leaks: debug
logs and patience ;)

Regards,
Andriy

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Javier Coleto Fernández
<javicoleto44@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andriy,
>
> Thank you for your answer.
> I've tried what you said and determined it's an mbuf leak, because the
> number of free mbufs doesn't stabilize, even when I increase the number of
> mbufs in the mempool.
> Is there any way to easily debug this mbuf leak? I didn't make the full
> code, so I don't really know where to start looking for leaks.
>
> Regards,
> Javier



-- 
Andriy Berestovskyy

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-18  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-15  8:34 Javier Coleto Fernández
2016-04-15 13:01 ` Andriy Berestovskyy
2016-04-18  8:41   ` Javier Coleto Fernández
2016-04-18  9:21     ` Andriy Berestovskyy [this message]
2016-04-18 14:37       ` Wiles, Keith
2016-04-18 15:34         ` Javier Coleto Fernández
2016-04-18 15:57           ` Andriy Berestovskyy
2016-04-18 16:01             ` Javier Coleto Fernández
2016-04-18 16:13               ` Andriy Berestovskyy
2016-04-18 16:29                 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-04-18 16:41                   ` Javier Coleto Fernández
2016-04-18 16:44                     ` Wiles, Keith
2016-04-19 11:30                       ` Javier Coleto Fernández
2016-04-18 14:53     ` Ferruh Yigit

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