Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: Bing Zhao <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 9:58 AM > To: Slava Ovsiienko <[email protected]>; Matan Azrad > <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; Raslan Darawsheh <[email protected]>; > Xueming(Steven) Li <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix the needless reference count for table > > In the previous implementation, a count was used to record the number of > the references to a table resource, including the creation of the table, the > jumping to the table and the matchers created on the table. Before releasing > the table resource via the driver, it needed to ensure that there is no > reference to this table. > > After the optimization of the resources management, the reference count > now is in the hash list entry as a unified solution for all the resources > management. > > There is no need to keep the "refcnt" in the table resource structure. It is > removed in case that there is some unnecessary memory overhead. > > Fixes: afd7a62514ad ("net/mlx5: make flow table cache thread safe") > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > > Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Matan Azrad <[email protected]>
Patch applied to next-net-mlx, Kindest regards, Raslan Darawsheh
