Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hunt, David
> Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2018 4:50 PM
> To: Pattan, Reshma <reshma.pat...@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] app/test: fix reorder test failure
>
> Hi Reshma,
>
> On 3/5/2018 4:42 PM, Reshma Pattan wrote:
> > Inside test_reorder_insert()
> > rte_mempool_get_bulk() and rte_mempool_put_bulk() are used to allocate
> > and free the mbufs and then rte_reorder_free() is called which again
> > freeing the mbufs using rte_pktmbuf_free().
> >
> > The mixed use of rte_mempool_put_bulk() and rte_pktmbuf_free() causing
> > duplicate mbufs to be created when rte_mempool_get_bulk() is called
> > next in test_reorder_drain().
> >
> > Since reorder library is taking care of freeing the mbufs using
> > rte_pktmbuf_free() change UT to allocate mbufs using
> > rte_pktmbuf_alloc().
> >
> > Do not mix and match the bulk get/put APIs with alloc/free APIs which
> > can cause undefined behavior.
> >
> > Fixes: d0c9b58d71 ("app/test: new reorder unit test")
> > Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
> > Cc: david.h...@intel.com
> > Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pat...@intel.com>
> > ---
> > test/test/test_reorder.c | 18 ++++++++----------
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/test/test/test_reorder.c b/test/test/test_reorder.c index
> > 65e4f38b2..b79b00961 100644
> > --- a/test/test/test_reorder.c
> > +++ b/test/test/test_reorder.c
> > @@ -146,11 +146,11 @@ test_reorder_insert(void)
> > b = rte_reorder_create("test_insert", rte_socket_id(), size);
> > TEST_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(b, "Failed to create reorder buffer");
> >
> > - ret = rte_mempool_get_bulk(p, (void *)bufs, num_bufs);
> > - TEST_ASSERT_SUCCESS(ret, "Error getting mbuf from pool");
> > -
> > - for (i = 0; i < num_bufs; i++)
> > + for (i = 0; i < num_bufs; i++) {
> > + bufs[i] = rte_pktmbuf_alloc(p);
> > + TEST_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(bufs[i], "Packet allocation
> failed\n");
> > bufs[i]->seqn = i;
> > + }
> >
> > /* This should fill up order buffer:
> > * reorder_seq = 0
> > @@ -202,7 +202,6 @@ test_reorder_insert(void)
> >
> > ret = 0;
> > exit:
> > - rte_mempool_put_bulk(p, (void *)bufs, num_bufs);
> > rte_reorder_free(b);
> > return ret;
> > }
> > @@ -227,9 +226,6 @@ test_reorder_drain(void)
> > b = rte_reorder_create("test_drain", rte_socket_id(), size);
> > TEST_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(b, "Failed to create reorder buffer");
> >
> > - ret = rte_mempool_get_bulk(p, (void *)bufs, num_bufs);
> > - TEST_ASSERT_SUCCESS(ret, "Error getting mbuf from pool");
> > -
> > /* Check no drained packets if reorder is empty */
> > cnt = rte_reorder_drain(b, robufs, 1);
> > if (cnt != 0) {
> > @@ -239,8 +235,11 @@ test_reorder_drain(void)
> > goto exit;
> > }
> >
> > - for (i = 0; i < num_bufs; i++)
> > + for (i = 0; i < num_bufs; i++) {
> > + bufs[i] = rte_pktmbuf_alloc(p);
> > + TEST_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(bufs[i], "Packet allocation
> failed\n");
> > bufs[i]->seqn = i;
> > + }
> >
> > /* Insert packet with seqn 1:
> > * reorder_seq = 0
> > @@ -298,7 +297,6 @@ test_reorder_drain(void)
> > }
> > ret = 0;
> > exit:
> > - rte_mempool_put_bulk(p, (void *)bufs, num_bufs);
> > rte_reorder_free(b);
> > return ret;
> > }
>
> I have one question. While the rte_reorder_free() takes care of freeing up any
> mbufs that were inserted into the reorder buffer, should there be
> rte_pktmbuf_free() calls for any remaining unused mbufs left in the bufs[]
> array?
>
Hmm, test teardown has rte_mempool_free() will that not be sufficient to free
the pool and hence the mbufs?
> Regards,
> Dave.
>
