From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m....@gmail.com> This series patch optimize openvswitch for performance or simplify codes.
Patch 1, 2, 4: Port Pravin B Shelar patches to linux upstream with little changes. Patch 5, 6, 7: Optimize the flow looking up and simplify the flow hash. Patch 8, 9: are bugfix. The performance test is on Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4. The test topology is show as below: +-----------------------------------+ | +---------------------------+ | | | eth0 ovs-switch eth1 | | Host0 | +---------------------------+ | +-----------------------------------+ ^ | | | | | | | | v +-----+----+ +----+-----+ | netperf | Host1 | netserver| Host2 +----------+ +----------+ We use netperf send the 64B packets, and insert 255+ flow-mask: $ ovs-dpctl add-flow ovs-switch "in_port(1),eth(dst=00:01:00:00:00:00/ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:01),eth_type(0x0800),ipv4(frag=no)" 2 ... $ ovs-dpctl add-flow ovs-switch "in_port(1),eth(dst=00:ff:00:00:00:00/ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff),eth_type(0x0800),ipv4(frag=no)" 2 $ $ netperf -t UDP_STREAM -H 2.2.2.200 -l 40 -- -m 18 * Without series patch, throughput 8.28Mbps * With series patch, throughput 46.05Mbps v1 -> v2: 1. use kfree_rcu instead of call_rcu. 2. add barrier when changing the ma->count. 3. change the ma->max to ma->count in flow_lookup. Tonghao Zhang (10): net: openvswitch: add flow-mask cache for performance net: openvswitch: convert mask list in mask array net: openvswitch: shrink the mask array if necessary net: openvswitch: optimize flow-mask cache hash collision net: openvswitch: optimize flow-mask looking up net: openvswitch: simplify the flow_hash net: openvswitch: add likely in flow_lookup net: openvswitch: fix possible memleak on destroy flow-table net: openvswitch: don't unlock mutex when changing the user_features fails net: openvswitch: simplify the ovs_dp_cmd_new net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 65 +++++---- net/openvswitch/flow.h | 1 - net/openvswitch/flow_table.c | 315 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ net/openvswitch/flow_table.h | 19 ++- 4 files changed, 328 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1