[dpdk-users] Sending packets without memory freeing

[Wiles, Keith]

On 10/28/15, 9:52 AM, "users on behalf of Александр Самойлов" <users-bounces at dpdk.org on behalf of cidjey1991 at mail.ru> wrote:

> Hello, I'm developing a TCP reassembler of some sorts based on DPDK. Currently I'm working on TCP segments retransmission (because of time out).
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>To do so, I've developed the next idea: how about to keep every outgoing packet in a queue and remove them from there when the corresponding ACK has arrived. So the plan is simple: build a packet, push it into the queue, send it, wait for the ACK, remove the packet from the queue. If the retransmission time is out, retransmit the packet.
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>But this simple plan seems to be impractible, for DPDK frees mbufs when sending packets. So I really have to just copy all the packets before sending them, which is not a good idea, of course.

If you increment the refcnt then you can hold on to the mbuf after the driver frees the packet.
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>So I've thought that it could be nice to have an opportunity sometimes to send packets without actually freeing mbufs so that we could retransmit them if we have such a need.
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>P.S. Right now my actual plan is to go to the depths of DPDK, find the sending packets function and modify it a bit so it doesn't free the memory. But I have a suspision that it won't end well :)
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>P.S.S. Or maybe I'm missing something and there's an opportunity to send packets without freeing the memory after all?
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Regards,
++Keith Wiles

Intel Corporation