Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bing Zhao <bi...@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 9:58 AM
> To: Slava Ovsiienko <viachesl...@nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <ma...@nvidia.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasl...@nvidia.com>;
> Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemi...@nvidia.com>; sta...@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix the needless reference count for table
>
> In the previous implementation, a count was used to record the number of
> the references to a table resource, including the creation of the table, the
> jumping to the table and the matchers created on the table. Before releasing
> the table resource via the driver, it needed to ensure that there is no
> reference to this table.
>
> After the optimization of the resources management, the reference count
> now is in the hash list entry as a unified solution for all the resources
> management.
>
> There is no need to keep the "refcnt" in the table resource structure. It is
> removed in case that there is some unnecessary memory overhead.
>
> Fixes: afd7a62514ad ("net/mlx5: make flow table cache thread safe")
> Cc: xuemi...@nvidia.com
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bi...@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Matan Azrad <ma...@nvidia.com>
Patch applied to next-net-mlx,
Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh
