Harry van Haaren <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Folks,
>
> This patchset is a v4, changes from v3 are a fix to the issue reported
> by Ilya (see v3 patchset for details). Note that this patchset enables
> the work as presented at OVS Conf last December, particularly this is
> the function pointer part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-MDlpUIOBE

Hi Harry,

I'm seeing quite a few failures associated with this patch set (see
below log for an example):

   https://api.travis-ci.org/v3/job/482434899/log.txt

Seems to be with gcc and the test suite.  The clang builds don't seem to
be impacted.  I haven't dived deep into the failures, but the tests
which are failing.

> The work contained in this patchset achieves the following;
>
> Patch 1:
> Refactor dpcls_lookup and the subtable for flexibility.
> In particular, add a function pointer to the subtable
> structure, which enables "plugging-in" a lookup function
> at runtime. This enables a number of optimizations in future.
>
> Patch 2 & 3:
> With the function pointer in place, we refactor the existing
> dpcls_lookup matching code into its own function, and later its
> own file. To split it to its own file requires making various
> dpcls data-structures available in the dpif-netdev.h header.
>
> Patch 4:
> Re-implement and optimize dpcls_rule_matches_key() by removing
> the "loopy-branch-ness" of the FOR_EACH() macros used. Instead
> a popcount() approach is used, which is much more CPU performance
> friendly, due to reduced branches/loads-stores and total work done.
>
> Performance:
> Patches 1, 2 and 3 are performance neutral in testing here. The
> fourth patch provides a significant performance improvement when
> dpcls or SMC are processing packets.
>
>
> Feedback, reviews, performance numbers weclomed! -Harry
>
>
> Harry van Haaren (4):
>   dpif-netdev: implement function pointers/subtable
>   dpif-netdev: move dpcls lookup structures to .h
>   dpif-netdev: split out generic lookup function
>   dpif-netdev: optimized dpcls_rule_matches_key()
>
>  lib/automake.mk                  |   1 +
>  lib/dpif-netdev-lookup-generic.c |  95 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/dpif-netdev.c                | 124 +++--------------------------
>  lib/dpif-netdev.h                | 130 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 238 insertions(+), 112 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 lib/dpif-netdev-lookup-generic.c
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