I sent some comments (mostly about comments it seems) earlier you may want to 
revisit (or not):

http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2013-May/027297.html

 Jarno

On Jun 28, 2013, at 1:30 , ext Ben Pfaff wrote:

> We have a controller that puts many rules with different metadata values
> into the flow table, where metadata is used (by "resubmit"s) to distinguish
> stages in a pipeline.  Thus, any given flow only needs to be hashed into
> classifier "cls_table"s that contain a match for the flow's metadata value.
> This commit optimizes the classifier lookup by (probabilistically) skipping
> the "cls_table"s that can't possibly match.
> 
> (The "metadata" referred to here is the OpenFlow 1.1+ "metadata" field,
> which is a 64-bit field similar in purpose to the "registers" defined by
> Open vSwitch.)
> 
> This speeds up flow setup performance with the controller in question by
> about 19%.
> 
> Bug #14282.
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
> ---
> lib/classifier.c |  116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> lib/classifier.h |   74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> lib/flow.h       |   27 ++++++++++++
> lib/tag.h        |    8 +++-
> 4 files changed, 209 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/classifier.c b/lib/classifier.c
> index bd202f6..0af6e17 100644
> --- a/lib/classifier.c
> +++ b/lib/classifier.c
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static void update_tables_after_removal(struct classifier *,
>                                        unsigned int del_priority);
> 
> static struct cls_rule *find_match(const struct cls_table *,
> -                                   const struct flow *);
> +                                   const struct flow *, tag_type tags);
> static struct cls_rule *find_equal(struct cls_table *,
>                                   const struct miniflow *, uint32_t hash);
> static struct cls_rule *insert_rule(struct classifier *,
> @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ classifier_init(struct classifier *cls)
>    cls->n_rules = 0;
>    hmap_init(&cls->tables);
>    list_init(&cls->tables_priority);
> +    hmap_init(&cls->partitions);
> }
> 
> /* Destroys 'cls'.  Rules within 'cls', if any, are not freed; this is the
> @@ -151,12 +152,20 @@ void
> classifier_destroy(struct classifier *cls)
> {
>    if (cls) {
> +        struct cls_table *partition, *next_partition;
>        struct cls_table *table, *next_table;
> 
>        HMAP_FOR_EACH_SAFE (table, next_table, hmap_node, &cls->tables) {
>            destroy_table(cls, table);
>        }
>        hmap_destroy(&cls->tables);
> +
> +        HMAP_FOR_EACH_SAFE (partition, next_partition, hmap_node,
> +                            &cls->partitions) {
> +            hmap_remove(&cls->partitions, &partition->hmap_node);
> +            free(partition);
> +        }
> +        hmap_destroy(&cls->partitions);
>    }
> }
> 
> @@ -174,6 +183,46 @@ classifier_count(const struct classifier *cls)
>    return cls->n_rules;
> }
> 
> +static uint32_t
> +hash_metadata(ovs_be64 metadata_)
> +{
> +    uint64_t metadata = (OVS_FORCE uint64_t) metadata_;
> +    return hash_2words(metadata, metadata >> 32);
> +}
> +
> +static struct cls_partition *
> +find_partition(const struct classifier *cls, ovs_be64 metadata, uint32_t 
> hash)
> +{
> +    struct cls_partition *partition;
> +
> +    HMAP_FOR_EACH_IN_BUCKET (partition, hmap_node, hash, &cls->partitions) {
> +        if (partition->metadata == metadata) {
> +            return partition;
> +        }
> +    }
> +
> +    return NULL;
> +}
> +
> +static struct cls_partition *
> +create_partition(struct classifier *cls, struct cls_table *table,
> +                 ovs_be64 metadata)
> +{
> +    uint32_t hash = hash_metadata(metadata);
> +    struct cls_partition *partition = find_partition(cls, metadata, hash);
> +    if (partition) {
> +        partition->n_refs++;
> +        partition->tags |= table->tag;
> +    } else {
> +        partition = xmalloc(sizeof *partition);
> +        partition->n_refs = 1;
> +        partition->tags = table->tag;
> +        partition->metadata = metadata;
> +        hmap_insert(&cls->partitions, &partition->hmap_node, hash);
> +    }
> +    return partition;
> +}
> +
> /* Inserts 'rule' into 'cls'.  Until 'rule' is removed from 'cls', the caller
> * must not modify or free it.
> *
> @@ -200,8 +249,17 @@ classifier_replace(struct classifier *cls, struct 
> cls_rule *rule)
> 
>    old_rule = insert_rule(cls, table, rule);
>    if (!old_rule) {
> +        if (minimask_get_metadata_mask(&rule->match.mask) == OVS_BE64_MAX) {
> +            ovs_be64 metadata = miniflow_get_metadata(&rule->match.flow);
> +            rule->partition = create_partition(cls, table, metadata);
> +        } else {
> +            rule->partition = NULL;
> +        }
> +
>        table->n_table_rules++;
>        cls->n_rules++;
> +    } else {
> +        rule->partition = old_rule->partition;
>    }
>    return old_rule;
> }
> @@ -225,6 +283,7 @@ classifier_insert(struct classifier *cls, struct cls_rule 
> *rule)
> void
> classifier_remove(struct classifier *cls, struct cls_rule *rule)
> {
> +    struct cls_partition *partition;
>    struct cls_rule *head;
>    struct cls_table *table;
> 
> @@ -242,6 +301,12 @@ classifier_remove(struct classifier *cls, struct 
> cls_rule *rule)
>        hmap_replace(&table->rules, &rule->hmap_node, &next->hmap_node);
>    }
> 
> +    partition = rule->partition;
> +    if (partition && --partition->n_refs == 0) {
> +        hmap_remove(&cls->partitions, &partition->hmap_node);
> +        free(partition);
> +    }
> +
>    if (--table->n_table_rules == 0) {
>        destroy_table(cls, table);
>    } else {
> @@ -262,12 +327,38 @@ struct cls_rule *
> classifier_lookup(const struct classifier *cls, const struct flow *flow,
>                  struct flow_wildcards *wc)
> {
> +    const struct cls_partition *partition;
>    struct cls_table *table;
>    struct cls_rule *best;
> +    tag_type tags;
> +
> +    /* Determine 'tags' such that, if 'table->tag' doesn't intersect them, 
> then
> +     * 'flow' cannot possibly match in 'table':
> +     *
> +     *     - If flow->metadata maps to a given 'partition', then we can use
> +     *       'tags' for 'partition->tags'.
> +     *
> +     *     - If flow->metadata has no partition, then no rule in 'cls' has an
> +     *       exact-match for flow->metadata.  That means that we don't need 
> to
> +     *       search any table that includes flow->metadata in its mask.
> +     *
> +     * In either case, we always need to search any cls_tables that do not
> +     * include flow->metadata in its mask.  One way to do that would be to
> +     * check the "cls_table"s explicitly for that, but that would require an
> +     * extra branch per table.  Instead, we mark such a cls_table's 'tags' as
> +     * TAG_ALL and make sure that 'tags' is never empty.  This means that
> +     * 'tags' always intersects such a cls_table's 'tags', so we don't need a
> +     * special case.
> +     */
> +    partition = (hmap_is_empty(&cls->partitions)
> +                 ? NULL
> +                 : find_partition(cls, flow->metadata,
> +                                  hash_metadata(flow->metadata)));
> +    tags = partition ? partition->tags : TAG_ARBITRARY;
> 
>    best = NULL;
>    LIST_FOR_EACH (table, list_node, &cls->tables_priority) {
> -        struct cls_rule *rule = find_match(table, flow);
> +        struct cls_rule *rule = find_match(table, flow, tags);
> 
>        if (wc) {
>            flow_wildcards_fold_minimask(wc, &table->mask);
> @@ -280,7 +371,7 @@ classifier_lookup(const struct classifier *cls, const 
> struct flow *flow,
>                     * can not find anything better. */
>                    return best;
>                }
> -                rule = find_match(table, flow);
> +                rule = find_match(table, flow, tags);
>                if (wc) {
>                    flow_wildcards_fold_minimask(wc, &table->mask);
>                }
> @@ -536,6 +627,7 @@ find_table(const struct classifier *cls, const struct 
> minimask *mask)
> static struct cls_table *
> insert_table(struct classifier *cls, const struct minimask *mask)
> {
> +    uint32_t hash = minimask_hash(mask, 0);
>    struct cls_table *table;
> 
>    table = xzalloc(sizeof *table);
> @@ -543,6 +635,9 @@ insert_table(struct classifier *cls, const struct 
> minimask *mask)
>    minimask_clone(&table->mask, mask);
>    hmap_insert(&cls->tables, &table->hmap_node, minimask_hash(mask, 0));
>    list_push_back(&cls->tables_priority, &table->list_node);
> +    table->tag = (minimask_get_metadata_mask(mask) == OVS_BE64_MAX
> +                  ? tag_create_deterministic(hash)
> +                  : TAG_ALL);
> 
>    return table;
> }
> @@ -648,14 +743,17 @@ update_tables_after_removal(struct classifier *cls, 
> struct cls_table *table,
> }
> 
> static struct cls_rule *
> -find_match(const struct cls_table *table, const struct flow *flow)
> +find_match(const struct cls_table *table, const struct flow *flow,
> +           tag_type tags)
> {
> -    uint32_t hash = flow_hash_in_minimask(flow, &table->mask, 0);
> -    struct cls_rule *rule;
> +    if (tag_intersects(tags, table->tag)) {
> +        uint32_t hash = flow_hash_in_minimask(flow, &table->mask, 0);
> +        struct cls_rule *rule;
> 
> -    HMAP_FOR_EACH_WITH_HASH (rule, hmap_node, hash, &table->rules) {
> -        if (minimatch_matches_flow(&rule->match, flow)) {
> -            return rule;
> +        HMAP_FOR_EACH_WITH_HASH (rule, hmap_node, hash, &table->rules) {
> +            if (minimatch_matches_flow(&rule->match, flow)) {
> +                return rule;
> +            }
>        }
>    }
> 
> diff --git a/lib/classifier.h b/lib/classifier.h
> index fdc3af7..07a2929 100644
> --- a/lib/classifier.h
> +++ b/lib/classifier.h
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> /*
> - * Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Nicira, Inc.
> + * Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Nicira, Inc.
> *
> * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
> * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
> @@ -19,17 +19,66 @@
> 
> /* Flow classifier.
> *
> - * A classifier is a "struct classifier",
> - *      a hash map from a set of wildcards to a "struct cls_table",
> - *              a hash map from fixed field values to "struct cls_rule",
> - *                      which can contain a list of otherwise identical rules
> - *                      with lower priorities.
> + * Basic Design
> + * ============
> + *
> + * Suppose that all the rules in a classifier had the same form.  For 
> example,
> + * suppose that they all matched on the source and destination Ethernet 
> address
> + * and wildcarded all the other fields.  Then the obvious way to implement a
> + * classifier would be a hash table on the source and destination Ethernet
> + * addresses.  If new classification rules came along with a different form,
> + * you could add a second hash table that hashed on the fields matched in 
> those
> + * rules.  With two hash tables, you look up a given flow in each hash table.
> + * If there are no matches, the classifier didn't contain a match; if you 
> find
> + * a match in one of them, that's the result; if you find a match in both of
> + * them, then the result is the rule with the higher priority.
> + *
> + * This is how the classifier works.  In a "struct classifier", each form of
> + * "struct cls_rule" present (based on its ->match.mask) goes into a separate
> + * "struct cls_table".  A lookup does a hash lookup in every "struct 
> cls_table"
> + * in the classifier and returns the highest-priority match that it finds.
> + *
> + * One detail: a classifier can contain multiple rules that are identical 
> other
> + * than their priority.  When this happens, only the highest priority rule 
> out
> + * of a group of otherwise identical rules is stored directly in the "struct
> + * cls_table", with the other almost-identical rules chained off a linked 
> list
> + * inside that highest-priority rule.
> + *
> + *
> + * Partitioning
> + * ============
> + *
> + * Suppose that a given classifier is being used to handle multiple stages 
> in a
> + * pipeline using "resubmit", with metadata (that is, the OpenFlow 1.1+ field
> + * named "metadata") distinguishing between the different stages.  For 
> example,
> + * metadata value 1 might identify ingress rules, metadata value 2 might
> + * identify ACLs, and metadata value 3 might identify egress rules.  Such a
> + * classifier is essentially partitioned into multiple sub-classifiers on the
> + * basis of the metadata value.
> + *
> + * The classifier has a special optimization to speed up matching in this
> + * scenario:
> + *
> + *     - Each cls_table that matches on metadata gets a random tag (see 
> tag.h).
> + *
> + *     - For each metadata value matched by any cls_rule, the classifier
> + *       constructs a "struct cls_partition" indexed by the metadata value.
> + *       The cls_partition has a 'tags' member whose value is the bitwise-OR 
> of
> + *       the tags of each cls_table that contains any rule that matches on 
> the
> + *       cls_partition's metadata value.
> + *
> + * Thus, a flow lookup can start by looking up the partition associated with
> + * the flow's metadata, and then skip over any cls_table whose 'tag' does not
> + * intersect the partition's 'tags'.  (The flow must also be looked up in any
> + * cls_table that doesn't match on metadata.  We handle that by giving any 
> such
> + * cls_table TAG_ALL as its 'tags' so that it matches any tag.)
> */
> 
> #include "flow.h"
> #include "hmap.h"
> #include "list.h"
> #include "match.h"
> +#include "tag.h"
> #include "openflow/nicira-ext.h"
> #include "openflow/openflow.h"
> 
> @@ -42,6 +91,7 @@ struct classifier {
>    int n_rules;                /* Total number of rules. */
>    struct hmap tables;         /* Contains "struct cls_table"s.  */
>    struct list tables_priority; /* Tables in descending priority order */
> +    struct hmap partitions;     /* Contains "struct cls_partition"s. */
> };
> 
> /* A set of rules that all have the same fields wildcarded. */
> @@ -53,6 +103,7 @@ struct cls_table {
>    int n_table_rules;          /* Number of rules, including duplicates. */
>    unsigned int max_priority;  /* Max priority of any rule in the table. */
>    unsigned int max_count;     /* Count of max_priority rules. */
> +    tag_type tag;               /* Tag generated from mask for partitioning. 
> */
> };
> 
> /* Returns true if 'table' is a "catch-all" table that will match every
> @@ -69,6 +120,17 @@ struct cls_rule {
>    struct list list;           /* List of identical, lower-priority rules. */
>    struct minimatch match;     /* Matching rule. */
>    unsigned int priority;      /* Larger numbers are higher priorities. */
> +    struct cls_partition *partition;
> +};
> +
> +/* Associates a metadata value (that is, a value of the OpenFlow 1.1+ 
> metadata
> + * field) with tags for the "cls_table"s that contain rules that match that
> + * metadata value.  */
> +struct cls_partition {
> +    struct hmap_node hmap_node; /* In struct classifier's 'partitions' hmap. 
> */
> +    ovs_be64 metadata;          /* metadata value for this partition. */
> +    unsigned int n_refs;        /* # of flows that refer to this partition. 
> */
> +    tag_type tags;              /* OR of each included flow's cls_table tag. 
> */
> };
> 
> void cls_rule_init(struct cls_rule *, const struct match *,
> diff --git a/lib/flow.h b/lib/flow.h
> index 2c027ed..89c52b1 100644
> --- a/lib/flow.h
> +++ b/lib/flow.h
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
> #include <stdbool.h>
> #include <stdint.h>
> #include <string.h>
> +#include "byte-order.h"
> #include "openflow/nicira-ext.h"
> #include "openflow/openflow.h"
> #include "hash.h"
> @@ -327,6 +328,7 @@ void miniflow_expand(const struct miniflow *, struct flow 
> *);
> 
> uint32_t miniflow_get(const struct miniflow *, unsigned int u32_ofs);
> uint16_t miniflow_get_vid(const struct miniflow *);
> +static inline ovs_be64 miniflow_get_metadata(const struct miniflow *);
> 
> bool miniflow_equal(const struct miniflow *a, const struct miniflow *b);
> bool miniflow_equal_in_minimask(const struct miniflow *a,
> @@ -359,11 +361,36 @@ void minimask_expand(const struct minimask *, struct 
> flow_wildcards *);
> 
> uint32_t minimask_get(const struct minimask *, unsigned int u32_ofs);
> uint16_t minimask_get_vid_mask(const struct minimask *);
> +static inline ovs_be64 minimask_get_metadata_mask(const struct minimask *);
> 
> bool minimask_equal(const struct minimask *a, const struct minimask *b);
> uint32_t minimask_hash(const struct minimask *, uint32_t basis);
> 
> bool minimask_has_extra(const struct minimask *, const struct minimask *);
> bool minimask_is_catchall(const struct minimask *);
> +
> +/* Returns the value of the OpenFlow 1.1+ "metadata" field in 'flow'. */
> +static inline ovs_be64
> +miniflow_get_metadata(const struct miniflow *flow)
> +{
> +    enum { MD_OFS = offsetof(struct flow, metadata) };
> +    BUILD_ASSERT_DECL(MD_OFS % sizeof(uint32_t) == 0);
> +    ovs_be32 hi = (OVS_FORCE ovs_be32) miniflow_get(flow, MD_OFS / 4);
> +    ovs_be32 lo = (OVS_FORCE ovs_be32) miniflow_get(flow, MD_OFS / 4 + 1);
> +
> +    return htonll(((uint64_t) ntohl(hi) << 32) | ntohl(lo));
> +}
> +
> +/* Returns the mask for the OpenFlow 1.1+ "metadata" field in 'mask'.
> + *
> + * The return value is all-1-bits if 'mask' matches on the whole value of the
> + * metadata field, all-0-bits if 'mask' entirely wildcards the metadata 
> field,
> + * or some other value if the metadata field is partially matched, partially
> + * wildcarded. */
> +static inline ovs_be64
> +minimask_get_metadata_mask(const struct minimask *mask)
> +{
> +    return miniflow_get_metadata(&mask->masks);
> +}
> 
> #endif /* flow.h */
> diff --git a/lib/tag.h b/lib/tag.h
> index 9d6b4aa..6fec24b 100644
> --- a/lib/tag.h
> +++ b/lib/tag.h
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> /*
> - * Copyright (c) 2008, 2011, 2012 Nicira, Inc.
> + * Copyright (c) 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 Nicira, Inc.
> *
> * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
> * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
> @@ -68,6 +68,12 @@
> /* Represents a tag, or the combination of 0 or more tags. */
> typedef uint32_t tag_type;
> 
> +/* A 'tag_type' value that intersects every tag. */
> +#define TAG_ALL UINT32_MAX
> +
> +/* An arbitrary tag. */
> +#define TAG_ARBITRARY UINT32_C(3)
> +
> tag_type tag_create_random(void);
> tag_type tag_create_deterministic(uint32_t seed);
> static inline bool tag_intersects(tag_type, tag_type);
> -- 
> 1.7.2.5
> 
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