[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add known issue for virtio TSO with clones

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Feb 7 00:10:47 CET 2017


On Mon,  6 Feb 2017 14:16:53 +0100
Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com> wrote:

> +**Implication**:
> +   In this situation, the shared data will be modified by the driver,
> +   potentially causing race conditions with the other users of the mbuf
> +   data.

This is a driver bug! The driver must check for refcount and not modify
mbuf's whose refcnt > 1. For those mbuf's it should copy the mbuf and modify
the copy. 

It is not good to force buggy refcnt handling back onto the application.
It is acceptable to document the performance impact.


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