[dpdk-dev] Free up completed TX buffers

On 01/06/15 09:50, Andriy Berestovskyy wrote: > Hi Zoltan, > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Zoltan Kiss > wrote: >> The easy way is just to increase your buffer pool's size to make >> sure that doesn't happen. > > Go for it! I went for it, my question is whether is it a good and worthwhile

[dpdk-dev] Free up completed TX buffers

Hi Zoltan, On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Zoltan Kiss wrote: > The easy way is just to increase your buffer pool's size to make > sure that doesn't happen. Go for it! > But there is no bulletproof way to calculate such > a number Yeah, there are many places for mbufs to stay :( I would try:

[dpdk-dev] Free up completed TX buffers

Hi, I've came across an another problem while sorting out the one fixed by my patch "ixgbe: fix checking for tx_free_thresh". Even when the threshold check is correct it can happen that the application run out of free buffers, and the only solution would be to get back the ones from the TX rin