2016-02-29 11:33, Tomasz Kulasek: > Current implementation of Exact-Match uses different execution path than > for LPM. Unifying them allows to reuse big part of LPM code and sightly > increase performance of Exact-Match. > > Main changes: > ------------- > * Packet classification stage is separated from the rest of path for both > LPM and EM. > * Packet processing, modifying and transmit part is the same for LPM and EM > and mostly based on the current LPM implementation. > * Shared code is moved to the common file "l3fwd_sse.h". > * While sequential packet classification in EM path, seems to be faster > than using multi hash lookup, used before, it is used by default. Old > implementation is moved to the file l3fwd_em_hlm_sse.h and can be enabled > with HASH_LOOKUP_MULTI global define in compilation time. > > This patch depends of Ravi Kerur's "Modify and modularize l3fwd code" and > should be applied after it. > > Changes in v3: > - fixed error: unused function 'l3fwd_em_simple_forward'. This function is > used only in l3fwd_em_no_opt_send_packets, and after moving it to new > header file l3fwd_em.h in Ravi's patch, also should be moved there. > > Changes in v2: > - patch rebase to be applicable on top of "Modify and modularize l3fwd > code" v3 > > Signed-off-by: Tomasz Kulasek <tomaszx.kulasek at intel.com> > Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>
Applied, thanks
