Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] vmxnet3: fix Rx deadlock

2016-12-19 Thread Ferruh Yigit
On 12/19/2016 10:41 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > On 12/19/2016 9:40 AM, Stefan Puiu wrote: >> Our use case is that we have an app that needs to keep mbufs around >> for a while. We've seen cases when calling vmxnet3_post_rx_bufs() from >> vmxet3_recv_pkts(), it might not succeed to add any mbufs to an

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] vmxnet3: fix Rx deadlock

2016-12-19 Thread Ferruh Yigit
On 12/19/2016 9:40 AM, Stefan Puiu wrote: > Our use case is that we have an app that needs to keep mbufs around > for a while. We've seen cases when calling vmxnet3_post_rx_bufs() from > vmxet3_recv_pkts(), it might not succeed to add any mbufs to any RX > descriptors (where it returns -err). Since

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] vmxnet3: fix Rx deadlock

2016-12-19 Thread Stefan Puiu
Our use case is that we have an app that needs to keep mbufs around for a while. We've seen cases when calling vmxnet3_post_rx_bufs() from vmxet3_recv_pkts(), it might not succeed to add any mbufs to any RX descriptors (where it returns -err). Since there are no mbufs that the virtual hardware can