From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
To: Alexander Kozyrev <akozyrev@nvidia.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: thomas@monjalon.net, andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru, orika@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] ethdev: add template table insertion and matching types
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 17:42:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <debd81ac-153c-3caf-b23b-b78a8f32e1fa@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230208030624.78465-1-akozyrev@nvidia.com>
On 2/8/2023 3:06 AM, Alexander Kozyrev wrote:
> Bring more flexibility and control over both flow rule insertion
> and packet matching mechanisms. Introduce 2 new flow table types:
>
> 1. Allow a user to specify the insertion type used in template tables.
> The insertion type is responsible for choosing the appropriate key
> value used to map inserted flow rules into a template table.
>
> Flow rules can be inserted by calculating the hash value for
> the pattern or inserted by index via the new create_by_index() API.
> The idea of the index-based insertion is to avoid additional matches
> and simply execute predefined actions after jumping to the index.
>
> The insertion into an already occupied index results in an error.
> The old rule must be destroyed first. An index cannot be bigger than
> the size of the table, otherwise, the rule is rejected as well.
>
> 2. Allow a user to specify the hash calculation function used in template
> tables. The hash calculation type is responsible for the calculation of
> the flow rule index a packet would hit upon arrival at the table.
>
> Control over this is useful for applications with custom RSS algorithms,
> for example. An application can select various packet fields to serve as
> a hash calculation source and jump to the appropriate flow rule location.
> The RSS hash result will be used as the index in the table. For the linear
> hash function, the mapping is one-to-one and the hash result is the index.
> For other hash functions, the index is the hash result module table size.
> The RSS hash result can be retrieved via modify_field API: HASH_RESULT.
>
> RFC: https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20221214022110.393410-1-akozyrev@nvidia.com/
> v2: changed the behavior in case of insertion into the same index.
> v3: refined the commit message to highlight index-based table advantage.
> v4: fixed a typo in the commit message.
>
>
> Alexander Kozyrev (4):
> ethdev: add template table insertion type
> ethdev: add template table hash calculation function
> app/testpmd: add template table insertion type
> app/testpmd: add template table hash calculation function
>
> Series-acked-by: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
>
Series applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-10 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-14 2:21 [RFC] " Alexander Kozyrev
2023-01-08 14:22 ` Ori Kam
2023-01-18 8:50 ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-01-20 23:06 ` Alexander Kozyrev
2023-01-22 20:55 ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-01-23 22:02 ` Alexander Kozyrev
2023-01-30 14:47 ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-01-21 5:21 ` [PATCH 0/4] " Alexander Kozyrev
2023-01-21 5:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] ethdev: add template table insertion type Alexander Kozyrev
2023-01-21 5:21 ` [PATCH 2/4] ethdev: add template table hash calculation function Alexander Kozyrev
2023-01-21 5:21 ` [PATCH 3/4] app/testpmd: add template table insertion type Alexander Kozyrev
2023-01-21 5:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] app/testpmd: add template table hash calculation function Alexander Kozyrev
2023-01-26 23:27 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] ethdev: add template table insertion and matching types Alexander Kozyrev
2023-01-26 23:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] ethdev: add template table insertion type Alexander Kozyrev
2023-02-02 10:57 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2023-02-07 15:06 ` Alexander Kozyrev
2023-01-26 23:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] ethdev: add template table hash calculation function Alexander Kozyrev
2023-01-26 23:28 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] app/testpmd: add template table insertion type Alexander Kozyrev
2023-01-26 23:28 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] app/testpmd: add template table hash calculation function Alexander Kozyrev
2023-02-01 16:09 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] ethdev: add template table insertion and matching types Ori Kam
2023-02-08 2:47 ` [PATCH v3 " Alexander Kozyrev
2023-02-08 2:47 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] ethdev: add template table insertion type Alexander Kozyrev
2023-02-08 2:47 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] ethdev: add template table hash calculation function Alexander Kozyrev
2023-02-08 2:47 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] app/testpmd: add template table insertion type Alexander Kozyrev
2023-02-08 2:47 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] app/testpmd: add template table hash calculation function Alexander Kozyrev
2023-02-08 3:06 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] ethdev: add template table insertion and matching types Alexander Kozyrev
2023-02-08 3:06 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] ethdev: add template table insertion type Alexander Kozyrev
2023-02-08 3:06 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] ethdev: add template table hash calculation function Alexander Kozyrev
2023-02-08 3:06 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] app/testpmd: add template table insertion type Alexander Kozyrev
2023-02-08 3:06 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] app/testpmd: add template table hash calculation function Alexander Kozyrev
2023-02-10 17:42 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
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