On 03/14/2017 12:11 PM, Jan Blunck wrote:
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Charles (Chas) Williams
<ciwil...@brocade.com> wrote:
If the user reconfigures the queues size, then the previosly allocated
memzone may potentially be too small.  Instead, always free the old
memzone and allocate a new one.

Fixes: dfaff37fc46d ("vmxnet3: import new vmxnet3 poll mode driver 
implementation")

Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <ciwil...@brocade.com>
---
 drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_rxtx.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_rxtx.c 
b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_rxtx.c
index 6649c3f..104e040 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_rxtx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_rxtx.c
@@ -893,8 +893,8 @@ vmxnet3_recv_pkts(void *rx_queue, struct rte_mbuf 
**rx_pkts, uint16_t nb_pkts)

 /*
  * Create memzone for device rings. malloc can't be used as the physical 
address is
- * needed. If the memzone is already created, then this function returns a ptr
- * to the old one.
+ * needed. If the memzone already exists, we free it since it may have been 
created
+ * with a different size.
  */
 static const struct rte_memzone *
 ring_dma_zone_reserve(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, const char *ring_name,
@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ ring_dma_zone_reserve(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, const char 
*ring_name,

        mz = rte_memzone_lookup(z_name);
        if (mz)
-               return mz;
+               rte_memzone_free(mz);

        return rte_memzone_reserve_aligned(z_name, ring_size,
                                           socket_id, 0, VMXNET3_RING_BA_ALIGN);

Chas,

Thanks for hunting this one down. Wouldn't the rte_memzone_free()
better fit into vmxnet3_cmd_ring_release() ?

I don't care which way it goes.  I just did what is basically done in
gpa_zone_reserve() to match the "style".  Tracking the current ring size
and avoiding reallocating a potentially large chunk of memory seems like
a better idea.

Also the ring_dma_zone_reserve() could get replaced by
rte_eth_dma_zone_reserve() (see also

Yes, it probably should get changed to that along with tracking the size.

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