Hi. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnow...@nvidia.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 29, 2024 1:52 PM > To: Slava Ovsiienko <viachesl...@nvidia.com>; Ori Kam <or...@nvidia.com>; > Suanming Mou <suanmi...@nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad > <ma...@nvidia.com> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasl...@nvidia.com>; Bing Zhao > <bi...@nvidia.com> > Subject: [PATCH v2 00/11] net/mlx5: flow insertion performance > improvements > > Goal of this patchset is to improve the throughput of flow insertion and > deletion in mlx5 PMD when HW Steering flow engine is used. > > - Patch 1 - Use preallocated per-queue, per-actions template buffer > for storing translated flow actions, instead of allocating and > filling it on demand, on each flow operation. > - Patches 2-4 - Make resource index allocation optional. This allocation > will be skipped when it is not required by the created template table. > - Patches 5-7 - Reduce memory footprint of the internal flow queue. > - Patch 8 - Remove indirection between flow job and flow itself, > by using flow as an operation container. > - Patches 9-10 - Reduce memory footpring of flow struct by moving > rarely used flow fields outside of the main flow struct. > These fields will accesses only when needed. > Also remove unneeded `zmalloc` usage. > - Patch 11 - Remove unneeded device status check in flow create. > > In general all of these changes result in the following improvements (all > numbers are averaged Kflows/sec): > > | | Insertion) | +% | Deletion | +% | > |--------------|:----------:|:------:|:--------:|:-----:| > | baseline | 6338.7 | | 9739.6 | | > | improvements | 6978.8 | +10.1% | 10432.4 | +7.1% | > > The basic benchmark was run on ConnectX-6 Dx (22.40.1000), on the system > with Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 CPU. > > v2: > > - Rebased. > - Applied Acked-by tags from previous version. > > Bing Zhao (2): > net/mlx5: skip the unneeded resource index allocation > net/mlx5: remove unneeded device status checking > > Dariusz Sosnowski (7): > net/mlx5: allocate local DR rule action buffers > net/mlx5: remove action params from job > net/mlx5: remove flow pattern from job > net/mlx5: remove updated flow from job > net/mlx5: use flow as operation container > net/mlx5: move rarely used flow fields outside > net/mlx5: reuse flow fields > > Erez Shitrit (2): > net/mlx5/hws: add check for matcher rule update support > net/mlx5/hws: add check if matcher contains complex rules > > drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr.h | 16 + > drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_action.c | 6 + > drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_action.h | 2 + > drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_matcher.c | 29 + > drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h | 29 +- > drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.h | 128 ++++- > drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c | 794 ++++++++++++++++---------- > 7 files changed, 666 insertions(+), 338 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.39.2
Series applied to next-net-mlx, Kindest regards, Raslan Darawsheh
