RFC - GRO Flowlookup Optimisation

[kumaraparameshwaran rathinavel <kumaraparamesh92@gmail.com>]

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Hi Folks,

The current GRO code uses an unoptimised version of flow lookup where each
flow in the table is iterated over during the flow matching process. For a
rte_gro_reassemble_burst in lightweight mode this would not cause much of
an impact. But with rte_gro_reassemble which is done with a timeout
interval, this causes higher CPU utilisation during throughput tests. The
proposal here is to use a Hash based flowtable which could make use of the
rte_hash table implementation in DPDK. There could be a hash table for each
of the GRO types. The lookup function and the key could be different for
each one of the types. If there is a consensus that this could have a
better performance impact I would work on an initial patch set. Please let
me know your thoughts.

Thanks,
Kumara.

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