I totally agree with the suggested change. Should the need arise,
we could make it configurable later.
Acked-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiet...@vmware.com>
On 13/05/2015 14:54, "Ciara Loftus" <ciara.lof...@intel.com> wrote:
>Prior to this commit, the number of possible entries in the Exact
>Match Cache stood at 1024 per thread exacting to 0.18Mb. A typical
>server system will have 2.5Mb cache per core meaning a larger EMC will
>comfortably fit in. This patch increases the number of entries to 8192
>per thread (1.4Mb) which in turn yields improved throughput when
>processing multiple flows of traffic.
>
>Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.lof...@intel.com>
>---
> lib/dpif-netdev.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/lib/dpif-netdev.c b/lib/dpif-netdev.c
>index f1d65f5..a4d96a4 100644
>--- a/lib/dpif-netdev.c
>+++ b/lib/dpif-netdev.c
>@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ struct netdev_flow_key {
> * If dp_netdev_input is not called from a pmd thread, a mutex is used.
> */
>
>-#define EM_FLOW_HASH_SHIFT 10
>+#define EM_FLOW_HASH_SHIFT 13
> #define EM_FLOW_HASH_ENTRIES (1u << EM_FLOW_HASH_SHIFT)
> #define EM_FLOW_HASH_MASK (EM_FLOW_HASH_ENTRIES - 1)
> #define EM_FLOW_HASH_SEGS 2
>--
>1.9.3
>
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