Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] netdev-dpdk: Free mempool only when no in-use mbufs.

2018-04-13 Thread Kevin Traynor
On 04/12/2018 04:40 PM, Ilya Maximets wrote: > On 10.04.2018 21:12, Kevin Traynor wrote: >> DPDK mempools are freed when they are no longer needed. >> This can happen when a port is removed or a port's mtu >> is reconfigured so that a new mempool is used. >> >> It is possible that an mbuf is attemp

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] netdev-dpdk: Free mempool only when no in-use mbufs.

2018-04-12 Thread Ilya Maximets
On 10.04.2018 21:12, Kevin Traynor wrote: > DPDK mempools are freed when they are no longer needed. > This can happen when a port is removed or a port's mtu > is reconfigured so that a new mempool is used. > > It is possible that an mbuf is attempted to be returned > to a freed mempool from NIC Tx

[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] netdev-dpdk: Free mempool only when no in-use mbufs.

2018-04-10 Thread Kevin Traynor
DPDK mempools are freed when they are no longer needed. This can happen when a port is removed or a port's mtu is reconfigured so that a new mempool is used. It is possible that an mbuf is attempted to be returned to a freed mempool from NIC Tx queues and this can lead to a segfault. In order to