[PATCH] net/mlx5: fix the needless reference count for table

[Raslan Darawsheh]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bing Zhao <bingz at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 9:58 AM
> To: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan at nvidia.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>;
> Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix the needless reference count for table
> 
> In the previous implementation, a count was used to record the number of
> the references to a table resource, including the creation of the table, the
> jumping to the table and the matchers created on the table. Before releasing
> the table resource via the driver, it needed to ensure that there is no
> reference to this table.
> 
> After the optimization of the resources management, the reference count
> now is in the hash list entry as a unified solution for all the resources
> management.
> 
> There is no need to keep the "refcnt" in the table resource structure. It is
> removed in case that there is some unnecessary memory overhead.
> 
> Fixes: afd7a62514ad ("net/mlx5: make flow table cache thread safe")
> Cc: xuemingl at nvidia.com
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bingz at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>

Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh