Currently, when adding or deleting MAC addresses, we are using
rte_zmalloc followed by an immediate rte_free. This memory does not need
to be stored in hugepage memory, so replace it with stack allocation.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c | 22 ++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c 
b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c
index 037382b336..332f1e356e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c
@@ -928,19 +928,14 @@ dcf_add_del_mc_addr_list(struct ice_dcf_hw *hw,
                         struct rte_ether_addr *mc_addrs,
                         uint32_t mc_addrs_num, bool add)
 {
-       struct virtchnl_ether_addr_list *list;
-       struct dcf_virtchnl_cmd args;
+       struct {
+               struct virtchnl_ether_addr_list list;
+               struct virtchnl_ether_addr addr[DCF_NUM_MACADDR_MAX];
+       } list_req = {0};
+       struct virtchnl_ether_addr_list *list = &list_req.list;
+       struct dcf_virtchnl_cmd args = {0};
        uint32_t i;
-       int len, err = 0;
-
-       len = sizeof(struct virtchnl_ether_addr_list);
-       len += sizeof(struct virtchnl_ether_addr) * mc_addrs_num;
-
-       list = rte_zmalloc(NULL, len, 0);
-       if (!list) {
-               PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "fail to allocate memory");
-               return -ENOMEM;
-       }
+       int err = 0;
 
        for (i = 0; i < mc_addrs_num; i++) {
                memcpy(list->list[i].addr, mc_addrs[i].addr_bytes,
@@ -955,13 +950,12 @@ dcf_add_del_mc_addr_list(struct ice_dcf_hw *hw,
        args.v_op = add ? VIRTCHNL_OP_ADD_ETH_ADDR :
                        VIRTCHNL_OP_DEL_ETH_ADDR;
        args.req_msg = (uint8_t *)list;
-       args.req_msglen  = len;
+       args.req_msglen  = sizeof(list_req);
        err = ice_dcf_execute_virtchnl_cmd(hw, &args);
        if (err)
                PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "fail to execute command %s",
                            add ? "OP_ADD_ETHER_ADDRESS" :
                            "OP_DEL_ETHER_ADDRESS");
-       rte_free(list);
        return err;
 }
 
-- 
2.47.3

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