[ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v5 00/10] optimize openvswitch flow looking up

[xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com]

From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com>

This series patch optimize openvswitch for performance or simplify
codes.

Patch 1, 2, 4: Port Pravin B Shelar patches to
linux upstream with little changes.

Patch 5, 6, 7: Optimize the flow looking up and
simplify the flow hash.

Patch 8, 9: are bugfix.

The performance test is on Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4.
The test topology is show as below:

+-----------------------------------+
|   +---------------------------+   |
|   | eth0   ovs-switch    eth1 |   | Host0
|   +---------------------------+   |
+-----------------------------------+
      ^                       |
      |                       |
      |                       |
      |                       |
      |                       v
+-----+----+             +----+-----+
| netperf  | Host1       | netserver| Host2
+----------+             +----------+

We use netperf send the 64B packets, and insert 255+ flow-mask:
$ ovs-dpctl add-flow ovs-switch "in_port(1),eth(dst=00:01:00:00:00:00/ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:01),eth_type(0x0800),ipv4(frag=no)" 2
...
$ ovs-dpctl add-flow ovs-switch "in_port(1),eth(dst=00:ff:00:00:00:00/ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff),eth_type(0x0800),ipv4(frag=no)" 2
$
$ netperf -t UDP_STREAM -H 2.2.2.200 -l 40 -- -m 18

* Without series patch, throughput 8.28Mbps
* With series patch, throughput 46.05Mbps

v5:
rewrite patch 8, release flow-mask when freeing flow

v4:
access ma->count with READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE API. More information,
see patch 5 comments. 

v3:
update ma point when realloc mask_array in patch 5

v2:
simplify codes. e.g. use kfree_rcu instead of call_rcu

Tonghao Zhang (10):
  net: openvswitch: add flow-mask cache for performance
  net: openvswitch: convert mask list in mask array
  net: openvswitch: shrink the mask array if necessary
  net: openvswitch: optimize flow mask cache hash collision
  net: openvswitch: optimize flow-mask looking up
  net: openvswitch: simplify the flow_hash
  net: openvswitch: add likely in flow_lookup
  net: openvswitch: fix possible memleak on destroy flow-table
  net: openvswitch: don't unlock mutex when changing the user_features
    fails
  net: openvswitch: simplify the ovs_dp_cmd_new

 net/openvswitch/datapath.c   |  65 +++++---
 net/openvswitch/flow.h       |   1 -
 net/openvswitch/flow_table.c | 381 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 net/openvswitch/flow_table.h |  19 ++-
 4 files changed, 360 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)

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