[dpdk-dev] net/mlx5: fix Tx when first segment size is too short

Message ID 0765108e11b5128da9f6d403d87e3e42d0adffdd.1490773336.git.nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Ferruh Yigit
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Commit Message

Nélio Laranjeiro March 29, 2017, 7:51 a.m. UTC
  First segment size must be at least 18 bytes, packets not respecting this
are silently not sent by the NIC but counted as sent by the PMD.  The only
way to figure out is compiling the PMD in debug mode.

Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Fixes: 6579c27c11a5 ("net/mlx5: remove gather loop on segments")

Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>

---

v2: fix the commit log.
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
  

Comments

Ferruh Yigit March 30, 2017, 4:32 p.m. UTC | #1
On 3/29/2017 8:51 AM, Nelio Laranjeiro wrote:
> First segment size must be at least 18 bytes, packets not respecting this
> are silently not sent by the NIC but counted as sent by the PMD.  The only
> way to figure out is compiling the PMD in debug mode.
> 
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> Fixes: 6579c27c11a5 ("net/mlx5: remove gather loop on segments")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
> Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
> Acked-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
  

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c
index 823aac8..e2e8a22 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxtx.c
@@ -485,7 +485,8 @@  mlx5_tx_burst(void *dpdk_txq, struct rte_mbuf **pkts, uint16_t pkts_n)
 #ifdef MLX5_PMD_SOFT_COUNTERS
 		total_length = length;
 #endif
-		assert(length >= MLX5_WQE_DWORD_SIZE);
+		if (length < (MLX5_WQE_DWORD_SIZE + 2))
+			break;
 		/* Update element. */
 		(*txq->elts)[elts_head] = buf;
 		elts_head = (elts_head + 1) & (elts_n - 1);