Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] dpif-netdev: Fix (packet) memory leaks in the slow path.

2014-09-19 Thread Pravin Shelar
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Daniele Di Proietto wrote: > If a packet didn't match a rule in the fast path classifier its memory was > never freed. The issue was particularly clear with DPDK devices because it was > not possible to process more than ~25 DPDK mbufs in the slow path. > > Thi

[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] dpif-netdev: Fix (packet) memory leaks in the slow path.

2014-09-19 Thread Daniele Di Proietto
If a packet didn't match a rule in the fast path classifier its memory was never freed. The issue was particularly clear with DPDK devices because it was not possible to process more than ~25 DPDK mbufs in the slow path. This commit fixes the problem by: * calling dpif_packet_delete() if the u