[ovs-dev] [v5 00/11] MFEX Infrastructure + Optimizations

[Amber, Kumar]

Hi All ,

Thanks, Cian,  for sending in for me somehow my patches were getting corrupted on mailing list .

Regards
Amber

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferriter, Cian <cian.ferriter at intel.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 2, 2021 6:27 PM
> To: ovs-dev at openvswitch.org
> Cc: fbl at sysclose.org; echaudro at redhat.com; i.maximets at ovn.org; Van
> Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>; Amber, Kumar
> <kumar.amber at intel.com>; Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes at intel.com>; Ferriter, Cian
> <cian.ferriter at intel.com>
> Subject: [v5 00/11] MFEX Infrastructure + Optimizations
> 
> v5 updates:
> - reabse onto latest DPIF v14
> - use Enum for mfex impls
> - add pmd core id set paramter in set command
> - get command modified to display the pmd thread for individual mfex functions
> - resolved comments from Eelco, Ian, Flavio
> - Use Atomic to get and set miniflow implementations
> - removed and reduced sleep in unit tests
> - fixed scalar miniflow perf degradation
> v4 updates:
> - rebase on to latest DPIF v13
> - fix fuzzy.py script with random mac/ip
> v3 updates:
> - rebase on to latest DPIF v12
> - add additonal AVX512 traffic profiles for tcp and vlan
> - add new command line for study function to add packet count
> - add unit tests for fuzzy testing and auto-validation of mfex
> - add mfex option hit stats to perf-show command
> v2 updates:
> - rebase on to latest DPIF v11
> This patchset introduces miniflow extract Infrastructure changes which allows
> user to choose different type of ISA based optimized miniflow extract variants
> which can be user choosen or set based on packets studies automatically by OVS
> using different commands.
> The Infrastructure also provides a way to check the correctness of different ISA
> optimized miniflow extract variants against the scalar version.
> This Patchset depends on the DPIF patchsets :
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/list/?series=251534
> 
> Harry van Haaren (4):
>   dpif/stats: add miniflow extract opt hits counter
>   dpdk: add additional CPU ISA detection strings
>   dpif-netdev/mfex: Add AVX512 based optimized miniflow extract
>   dpif-netdev/mfex: add more AVX512 traffic profiles
> 
> Kumar Amber (7):
>   dpif-netdev: Add command line and function pointer for miniflow
>     extract
>   dpif-netdev: Add auto validation function for miniflow extract
>   dpif-netdev: Add study function to select the best mfex function
>   docs/dpdk/bridge: add miniflow extract section.
>   dpif-netdev: Add configure to enable autovalidator at build time.
>   dpif-netdev: Add packet count and core id paramters for study
>   test/sytem-dpdk: Add unit test for mfex autovalidator
> 
>  Documentation/topics/dpdk/bridge.rst | 140 +++++++
>  NEWS                                 |  12 +-
>  acinclude.m4                         |  16 +
>  configure.ac                         |   1 +
>  lib/automake.mk                      |   4 +
>  lib/dpdk.c                           |   2 +
>  lib/dpif-netdev-avx512.c             |  34 +-
>  lib/dpif-netdev-extract-avx512.c     | 598 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/dpif-netdev-extract-study.c      | 145 +++++++
>  lib/dpif-netdev-perf.c               |   3 +
>  lib/dpif-netdev-perf.h               |   1 +
>  lib/dpif-netdev-private-extract.c    | 373 +++++++++++++++++
>  lib/dpif-netdev-private-extract.h    | 180 ++++++++
>  lib/dpif-netdev-private-thread.h     |   8 +
>  lib/dpif-netdev-unixctl.man          |   1 +
>  lib/dpif-netdev.c                    | 210 +++++++++-
>  tests/automake.mk                    |   5 +
>  tests/mfex_fuzzy.py                  |  32 ++
>  tests/pcap/mfex_test                 | Bin 0 -> 416 bytes
>  tests/pmd.at                         |   6 +-
>  tests/system-dpdk.at                 |  46 +++
>  21 files changed, 1804 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)  create mode 100644
> lib/dpif-netdev-extract-avx512.c  create mode 100644 lib/dpif-netdev-extract-
> study.c  create mode 100644 lib/dpif-netdev-private-extract.c  create mode
> 100644 lib/dpif-netdev-private-extract.h  create mode 100755
> tests/mfex_fuzzy.py  create mode 100644 tests/pcap/mfex_test
> 
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