Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1575067
Backport "net/nfp: fix mbufs releasing when stop or close"
Last modified: 2018-07-09 12:44:14 EDT
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1573912 +++ Would like to have the following DPDK commit in RHEL 7.6. Not sure how the process works for DPDK, feel free to educate me: commit 0c0e46c36bcc5dfe9d2aa605e1a5f714d45e0b7f Author: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com> Date: Mon Apr 23 12:23:58 2018 +0100 net/nfp: fix mbufs releasing when stop or close PMDs have the responsibility of releasing mbufs sent through xmit burst function. NFP PMD attaches those sent mbufs to the TX ring structure, and it is at the next time a specific ring descriptor is going to be used when the previous linked mbuf, already transmitted at that point, is released. Those mbufs belonging to a chained mbuf got its own link to a ring descriptor, and they are released independently of the mbuf head of that chain. The problem is how those mbufs are released when the PMD is stopped or closed. Instead of releasing those mbufs as the xmit functions does, this is independently of being in a mbuf chain, the code calls rte_pktmbuf_free which will release not just the mbuf head in that chain but all the chained mbufs. The loop will try to release those mbufs which have already been released again when chained mbufs exist. This patch fixes the problem using rte_pktmbuf_free_seg instead. Fixes: b812daadad0d ("nfp: add Rx and Tx") Cc: stable@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>
The package has been verified by running concurrent netperf tests between guests over OVS-dpdk/vxlan/nfp tunnel.
NFP people has done their part. Please check https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1573912#c20
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:1962