On 15 Jul 2022, at 13:39, Stokes, Ian wrote:
>> This patchset introduces actions infrastructure changes which allows
>> the user to choose between different action implementations based on
>> CPU ISA by using different commands. The infrastructure also
>> provides a way to check the correctness of the ISA optimized action
>> version against the scalar version.
>> This series also introduces optimized versions of the following
>> actions:
>> - push_vlan
>> - pop_vlan
>> - set_masked eth
>> - set_masked ipv4
>> Below is a table indicating some relative performance benefits for
>> these actions.
>> +-----------------------------------------------+-------------------+-----------------+
>> | Actions | Scalar with series|AVX
>> with series |
>> +-----------------------------------------------+-------------------+-----------------+
>> | mod_dl_dst | 1.01x |1.13x
>> |
>> +-----------------------------------------------+-------------------+-----------------+
>> | push_vlan | 1.01x |1.10x
>> |
>> +-----------------------------------------------+-------------------+-----------------+
>> | strip_vlan | 1.01x |1.11x
>> |
>> +-----------------------------------------------+-------------------+-----------------+
>> | mod_ipv4 1 x field | 1.01x |1.02x
>> |
>> +-----------------------------------------------+-------------------+-----------------+
>> | mod_ipv4 4 x fields | 1.01x |1.21x
>> |
>> +-----------------------------------------------+-------------------+-----------------+
>> | strip_vlan + mod_dl_dst + mod_ipv4 4 x fields | 1.01x |1.36x
>> |
>> +-----------------------------------------------+-------------------+-----------------+
>>
>
> Thanks all for the work/reviews on this, given that it has been under
> discussion prior to the soft freeze I have merged this to master.
Thanks, still would like some answers on the performance numbers.
//Eelco
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