Hi Anatoly,

On 14/1/2021 2:46 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
From: Liang Ma <liang.j...@intel.com>

Add a simple on/off switch that will enable saving power when no
packets are arriving. It is based on counting the number of empty
polls and, when the number reaches a certain threshold, entering an
architecture-defined optimized power state that will either wait
until a TSC timestamp expires, or when packets arrive.

This API mandates a core-to-single-queue mapping (that is, multiple
queued per device are supported, but they have to be polled on different
cores).

This design is using PMD RX callbacks.

1. UMWAIT/UMONITOR:

    When a certain threshold of empty polls is reached, the core will go
    into a power optimized sleep while waiting on an address of next RX
    descriptor to be written to.

2. TPAUSE/Pause instruction

    This method uses the pause (or TPAUSE, if available) instruction to
    avoid busy polling.

3. Frequency scaling
    Reuse existing DPDK power library to scale up/down core frequency
    depending on traffic volume.

Signed-off-by: Liang Ma <liang.j...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com>
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Notes:
     v17:
     - Added memory barriers suggested by Konstantin
     - Removed the BUSY state

  doc/guides/prog_guide/power_man.rst    |  44 +++
  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst |  10 +
  lib/librte_power/meson.build           |   5 +-
  lib/librte_power/rte_power_pmd_mgmt.c  | 364 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
  lib/librte_power/rte_power_pmd_mgmt.h  |  90 ++++++
  lib/librte_power/version.map           |   5 +
  6 files changed, 516 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
  create mode 100644 lib/librte_power/rte_power_pmd_mgmt.c
  create mode 100644 lib/librte_power/rte_power_pmd_mgmt.h


Acked-by: David Hunt <david.h...@intel.com>


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