[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] net/ixgbe: fix RxQ/TxQ release

Julien Meunier julien.meunier at nokia.com
Tue Sep 28 10:12:38 CEST 2021


On the vector implementation, during the tear-down, the mbufs not
drained in the RxQ and TxQ are freed based on an algorithm which
supposed that the number of descriptors is a power of 2 (max_desc).
Based on this hypothesis, this algorithm uses a bitmask in order to
detect an index overflow during the iteration, and to restart the loop
from 0.

However, there is no such power of 2 requirement in the ixgbe for the
number of descriptors in the RxQ / TxQ. The only requirement is to have
a number correctly aligned.

If a user requested to configure a number of descriptors which is not a
power of 2, as a consequence, during the tear-down, it was possible to
be in an infinite loop, and to never reach the exit loop condition.

By removing the bitmask and changing the loop method, we can avoid this
issue, and allow the user to configure a RxQ / TxQ which is not a power
of 2.

Fixes: c95584dc2b18 ("ixgbe: new vectorized functions for Rx/Tx")
Cc: bruce.richardson at intel.com
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Julien Meunier <julien.meunier at nokia.com>
---
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_common.h | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_common.h b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_common.h
index adba855ca3..005e60668a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_common.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec_common.h
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ _ixgbe_tx_queue_release_mbufs_vec(struct ixgbe_tx_queue *txq)
 	/* release the used mbufs in sw_ring */
 	for (i = txq->tx_next_dd - (txq->tx_rs_thresh - 1);
 	     i != txq->tx_tail;
-	     i = (i + 1) & max_desc) {
+	     i = (i + 1) % txq->nb_tx_desc) {
 		txe = &txq->sw_ring_v[i];
 		rte_pktmbuf_free_seg(txe->mbuf);
 	}
@@ -168,7 +168,6 @@ _ixgbe_tx_queue_release_mbufs_vec(struct ixgbe_tx_queue *txq)
 static inline void
 _ixgbe_rx_queue_release_mbufs_vec(struct ixgbe_rx_queue *rxq)
 {
-	const unsigned int mask = rxq->nb_rx_desc - 1;
 	unsigned int i;

 	if (rxq->sw_ring == NULL || rxq->rxrearm_nb >= rxq->nb_rx_desc)
@@ -183,7 +182,7 @@ _ixgbe_rx_queue_release_mbufs_vec(struct ixgbe_rx_queue *rxq)
 	} else {
 		for (i = rxq->rx_tail;
 		     i != rxq->rxrearm_start;
-		     i = (i + 1) & mask) {
+		     i = (i + 1) % rxq->nb_rx_desc) {
 			if (rxq->sw_ring[i].mbuf != NULL)
 				rte_pktmbuf_free_seg(rxq->sw_ring[i].mbuf);
 		}
--
2.17.1



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