netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] mlx4: order-0 allocations and page recycling

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Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2017 05:31:23 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Brenden Blanco <bblanco@...mgrid.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] mlx4: order-0 allocations and page recycling

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:00 AM, Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com> wrote:

> Yes.

>
> It can be fixed with this:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
> index 6854a19087ed..d97ee69393f0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c
> @@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ static void mlx4_en_free_frag(const struct mlx4_en_priv
> *priv,
>                 dma_unmap_page(priv->ddev, frag->dma,
>                                PAGE_SIZE, priv->dma_dir);
>                 put_page(frag->page);
> -               frag->page = NULL;
>         }
> +       memset(frag, 0, sizeof(*frag));
>  }
>

Oh nice, and this is slow path (mlx4_en_free_frag() wont be called
anymore in fast path after my patches)

Thanks a lot Tariq for tracking this down.