Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/8] net/mlx5 counter optimize

[Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@mellanox.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 7:00 AM
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 0/8] net/mlx5 counter optimize
> 
> In the plan of save the memory consumption for rte_flow, the counter
> memory consumption will be optimized from two perspective.
> 
> Change the counter object saving as index instead of pointer in rte_flow.
> In this case, since currently the counters are allocated from the pool,
> counter can use the index as it is in the pool to address the object. The
> counter index ID is made up of the pool index and counter offset in the
> pool.
> 
> Split the counter struct members are used only in batch and none batch.
> Currently, there are two kinds of counters, one as batch and others as
> none batch. The most widely used batch counters only use limited members
> in the counter struct. Split the members only used by none batch counters
> to the extend counter struct, and allocate the memory only for the none
> batch counter pools saves memory for batch counters.
> 
> 
> Suanming Mou (8):
>   net/mlx5: fix incorrect counter container usage
>   net/mlx5: optimize counter release query generation
>   net/mlx5: change verbs counter allocator to indexed
>   common/mlx5: add batch counter id offset
>   net/mlx5: change Direct Verbs counter to indexed
>   net/mlx5: optimize flow counter handle type
>   net/mlx5: split the counter struct
>   net/mlx5: reorganize fallback counter management
> 
>  drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_prm.h     |   9 +
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c            |   6 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h            |  52 +++--
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c       |  28 ++-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.h       |  10 +-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c    | 445 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
> -----
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_verbs.c | 173 ++++++++++----
>  7 files changed, 428 insertions(+), 295 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 1.8.3.1

Series applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh