igb and ixgbe and some other drivers allocate HW rings using rte_eth_dma_zone_reserve(), which checks first if the memzone exists for a given name, consisting of port id, queue_id, rx/tx direction, but not for the size, alignment, and socket_id. If the memzone with a given name exists it is returned, otherwise it is allocated. Disconnecting dpdk port from one type of interface (igb) and connecting it to another type of interface (ixgbe) for the same port id, potentially creates memory overlap and corruption, because it may require memzone of bigger size. That's what is happening from switching from igb to ixgbe having the same port id.
v4->v5: rte_eth_dma_zone_free() marked as __rte_internal instead of __rte_experimental v3->v4: Improve return code in rte_eth_dma_zone_free() in case mz is not found; Release explicitly i40e Flow Director rx/tx rings by calling rte_eth_dma_zone_free(). v2->v3: Remove #undef ETH_DMA_MZONE_NAME and minor changes in code standard. v1->v2: Minor changes on code standard and additional fixes in i40e em and ice drivers. Renata Saiakhova (4): ethdev: add function to release HW rings drivers/net: fix in igb and ixgbe HW rings memory drivers/net: fix in i40e HW rings memory overlap drivers/net: fix in em and ice HW rings memory overlap drivers/net/e1000/em_rxtx.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/e1000/igb_rxtx.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/i40e/i40e_fdir.c | 3 +++ drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/ice/ice_rxtx.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c | 2 ++ lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_driver.h | 17 ++++++++++++++ lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_version.map | 7 ++++++ 9 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 2.17.2