Krishna, I’ll try to give some high level guidance, however much of this is also explained in various places in the wiki. https://wiki.fd.io/view/File:Fd.io_vpp_overview_29.03.17.pptx is a good start.
There are two different uses of the word vector: As a dimensioned allocation of memory (so it can be used like an array) or as a bundle of packets that need to be processed. The latter is a specific case of the former. The IP stack is built as a graph of nodes. Each node represents a small piece of the overall stack functionality. Further, each node in the graph processes all the packets it is presented with; this is the where vectors of packets are processed. If you look at the implementation of each node you will observe a while loop for this. In some cases VPP processes 2 or 4 packets in parallel in this loop by interleaving the instructions for more than one packet. This loop also determines the disposition of each packet which typically involves queueing it for another node; not all the packets in a single vector end up with the same outward disposition. Thus, there’s no single loop that alone processes packets, rather there’s a collection of loops that process parts of the network stack. FIB lookup could happen in several places; but obvious places to look are nodes named something like ‘ip4-lookup’. I hope that gets you started. Chris. From: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io [mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io] On Behalf Of Krishna Tippur Gururaj Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 16:08 To: vpp-dev@lists.fd.io Subject: [vpp-dev] VPP code clarification Hello All, I am a graduate student at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, and I am working with Prof. Minseok Kwon on implementing various probabilistic filters around the VPP fib lookup logic. I am having a hard time trying to figure out the code flow so I am sending this out requesting for some help on the same. 1. There is a point in the VPP code where the vector elements (packets) are looped over one by one; somewhere down the chain, the fib lookup is done for each packet. Could you please tell me where that "for" loop (or something similar) exists, from where each packet in a vector is processed individually? 2. I was trying to figure out how VPP determines the size of a vector while processing the packets. I found the vec_create() and other such calls in vppinfra/ but was unable to determine how they are used in actual packet processing. Could you please tell me where the vector size is determined? Thanks in advance for the guidance and help! -- Regards, Krishna Tippur Gururaj Computer Science graduate student, RIT (585) 532-3636
