The max message size is defined as 4k, so we don't need a special malloc/free (and especially not rte_malloc/rte_free) for each call into the function - especially if no data is present. Replace the malloc calls with a local memory buffer instead.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c | 14 +++++--------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c index 0d6b030536..a59ca2e047 100644 --- a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c @@ -1440,17 +1440,14 @@ ice_handle_aq_msg(struct rte_eth_dev *dev) { struct ice_hw *hw = ICE_DEV_PRIVATE_TO_HW(dev->data->dev_private); struct ice_ctl_q_info *cq = &hw->adminq; - struct ice_rq_event_info event; + unsigned char buf[ICE_AQ_MAX_BUF_LEN] = {0}; + struct ice_rq_event_info event = { + .msg_buf = buf, + .buf_len = sizeof(buf), + }; uint16_t pending, opcode; int ret; - event.buf_len = ICE_AQ_MAX_BUF_LEN; - event.msg_buf = rte_zmalloc(NULL, event.buf_len, 0); - if (!event.msg_buf) { - PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to allocate mem"); - return; - } - pending = 1; while (pending) { ret = ice_clean_rq_elem(hw, cq, &event, &pending); @@ -1477,7 +1474,6 @@ ice_handle_aq_msg(struct rte_eth_dev *dev) break; } } - rte_free(event.msg_buf); } #endif -- 2.51.0

