On 4/26/2017 11:27 AM, Alejandro Lucero wrote: > If segments are used, just mbufs previously linked to head descriptor of > a mbuf chain are released. Other tx descriptor are used for the mbuf chain > but they keep their linked mbufs without releasing them. It is not a fatal > issue because sooner or later those descriptors will be head descriptors or > just used for a single mbuf packet, then those linked mbufs will be released. > However, this leads to apps needing bigger mbufs pools and some confusion > about memory requeriments. Indeed, because larget pools, some performance > impact could also be exptected due to cache misses. > > With this patch all tx descriptors will release linked mbufs inside the > xmit function, and rte_pktmbuf_seg_free is used instead of rte_pktmbuf_free. > > Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.luc...@netronome.com>
Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
