[ovs-dev] [v14 04/11] dpif-avx512: Add ISA implementation of dpif.

[Flavio Leitner]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 04:06:12PM +0100, Cian Ferriter wrote:
> From: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>
> 
> This commit adds the AVX512 implementation of DPIF functionality,
> specifically the dp_netdev_input_outer_avx512 function. This function
> only handles outer (no re-circulations), and is optimized to use the
> AVX512 ISA for packet batching and other DPIF work.
> 
> Sparse is not able to handle the AVX512 intrinsics, causing compile
> time failures, so it is disabled for this file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>
> Co-authored-by: Cian Ferriter <cian.ferriter at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cian Ferriter <cian.ferriter at intel.com>
> Co-authored-by: Kumar Amber <kumar.amber at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Amber <kumar.amber at intel.com>
> 
> ---

Thanks for addressing all the previous comments.

It seems that if we had used a emc_hit along with existing
smc_hit the code would be easier read, instead adding/removing
bitmasks from a emc_smc variable.

Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>