On 2020-06-04 1:46 PM, Roi Dayan wrote:
> In order to improve revalidator performance, extend netdev-offload with terse
> dump support. In terse dump mode modify code that parses netlink to flower and
> flower to match to only provide the essential data for conversion instead of
> parsing all filter and actions data.
>
> Implement support for new TC TCA_DUMP_FLAGS_TERSE flag. With the flag set TC
> kernel implementation skips output of all other data besides stats, cookie and
> flags which allows to pack much more filters in single netlink packet and
> reduces amount of syscalls required to execute filter dump.
>
> The impact of the change is measured by benchmarking revalidator poll interval
> time with 100k of simple L2 flows with two revalidator threads on setup with
> 2x
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz, 32GB memory. For such configuration
> poll interval is reduced from ~1020ms to ~220ms.
>
> Pointer to the kernel patches for the new TC flag:
> https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpatchwork.ozlabs.org%2Fproject%2Fnetdev%2Fcover%2F20200515114014.3135-1-vladbu%2540mellanox.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Croid%40mellanox.com%7C6cd2642b7e5c46cd61e308d80874ce08%7Ca652971c7d2e4d9ba6a4d149256f461b%7C0%7C0%7C637268645057358795&sdata=gHfuLy9ZdymCq%2FqMsP5HPTWTNfO%2BcI%2BeEcopbZ9%2F1hY%3D&reserved=0
>
> Pointer to travis ci
> https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftravis-ci.org%2Fgithub%2Froidayan%2Fovs%2Fbuilds%2F694595308&data=02%7C01%7Croid%40mellanox.com%7C6cd2642b7e5c46cd61e308d80874ce08%7Ca652971c7d2e4d9ba6a4d149256f461b%7C0%7C0%7C637268645057358795&sdata=935ft%2B4OpTZyVGqju4Y3A4mOZusXwN%2F3ZMaonHJwLpo%3D&reserved=0
>
>
> Vlad Buslov (2):
> netdev-offload: Implement terse dump support
> tc: Support new terse dump kernel API
>
> lib/dpif-netlink.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> lib/netdev-offload-provider.h | 3 +-
> lib/netdev-offload-tc.c | 71
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> lib/netdev-offload.c | 10 +++---
> lib/netdev-offload.h | 6 ++--
> lib/tc.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> lib/tc.h | 5 +--
> ofproto/ofproto-dpif-upcall.c | 24 +++++++++++++--
> 8 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
>
forgot to include changelog.
v2
- fixing travis errors.
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