Test-Label: intel-Testing
Test-Status: SUCCESS 
_Testing PASS 

DPDK git repo: dpdk-next-net

commit 6834ff7eab934c806a44650065f6527ef607861f
Author: Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 2 13:19:27 2023 +0200

    ethdev: add optimization hints in flow template table
    
    In case flow rules match only one kind of traffic in a flow table,
    then optimization can be done via allocation of this table.
    Such optimization is possible only if the application gives a hint
    about its usage of the table during initial configuration.
    
    The transfer domain rules may process traffic from wire or vport,
    which may correspond to two kinds of underlayer resources.
    That's why the first two hints introduced in this patch are about
    wire and vport traffic specialization.
    Wire means traffic arrives from the uplink port while vport means
    traffic initiated from VF/SF.
    
    There are two possible approaches for providing the hints.
    Using IPv4 as an example:
    1. Use pattern item in both flow template table and rules.
    
       template table 3 =
         transfer pattern ANY_VPORT / eth / ipv4 src is 255.255.255.255 / end
       flow rule =
         template_table 3 pattern ANY_VPORT / eth / ipv4 src is 1.1.1.1 / end
    
       The pattern template 3 will be used only to match flows coming from
       vports.
       ANY_VPORT needs to be present in each flow rule.
       ANY_VPORT matching is redundant with IP src 1.1.1.1 because
       the user knows 1.1.1.1 is the IP of a vport.
    
    2. Add specialization flag into flow template table attribute:
    
       template table 3 =
         transfer VPORT_ORIG pattern eth / ipv4 src is 255.255.255.255 / end
       flow rule =
         template_table 3 pattern eth / ipv4 src is 1.1.1.1 / end
    
       The pattern template 3 can be used only to match flows coming
       from vports.
    
    Approach 1 needs to specify the hint in each flow rule that wastes
    memory and is not user friendly.
    This patch takes the 2nd approach and introduces one new member
    "specialize" into rte_flow_table_attr to indicate possible flow table
    optimization.
    
    By default, there is no hint, so nothing change.
    There is no guarantee that the hints will be effective in the driver.
    The application functionality must not rely on the hints.
    
    Signed-off-by: Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>
    Acked-by: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
    Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
    Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

Testing Summary : 18 Case Done, 18 Successful, 0 Failures

Testbed #1: 9 Case Done, 9 Successful, 0 Failures 
	* Test result details:
	  +-------------+---------------------------+-------+
	  | suite       | case                      | status|
	  +-------------+---------------------------+-------+
	  | asan_smoke  | test_rxtx_with_ASan_enable| passed|
	  | pf_smoke    | test_pf_jumbo_frames      | passed|
	  | pf_smoke    | test_pf_rss               | passed|
	  | pf_smoke    | test_pf_tx_rx_queue       | passed|
	  | vf_smoke    | test_vf_jumbo_frames      | passed|
	  | vf_smoke    | test_vf_rss               | passed|
	  | vf_smoke    | test_vf_tx_rx_queue       | passed|
	  | virtio_smoke| test_virtio_loopback      | passed|
	  | virtio_smoke| test_virtio_pvp           | passed|
	  +-------------+---------------------------+-------+
	* Environment:
	  OS : Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS       
	  Kernel : 5.8.0-63-generic         
	  GCC : 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1        
	  NIC : Ethernet Controller E810-C for SFP         
	  Target : x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc      

Testbed #2: 9 Case Done, 9 Successful, 0 Failures 
	* Test result details:
	  +-------------+---------------------------+-------+
	  | suite       | case                      | status|
	  +-------------+---------------------------+-------+
	  | asan_smoke  | test_rxtx_with_ASan_enable| passed|
	  | pf_smoke    | test_pf_jumbo_frames      | passed|
	  | pf_smoke    | test_pf_rss               | passed|
	  | pf_smoke    | test_pf_tx_rx_queue       | passed|
	  | vf_smoke    | test_vf_rss               | passed|
	  | vf_smoke    | test_vf_tx_rx_queue       | passed|
	  | vf_smoke    | test_vf_jumbo_frames      | n/a   |
	  | virtio_smoke| test_virtio_loopback      | passed|
	  | virtio_smoke| test_virtio_pvp           | passed|
	  +-------------+---------------------------+-------+
	* Environment:
	  OS : Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS       
	  Kernel : 5.13.0-30-generic         
	  GCC : 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1        
	  NIC : Ethernet Controller XL710 for 40GbE QSFP+         
	  Target : x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc      

TestPlan:
	   pf_smoke: http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/test_plans/pf_smoke_test_plan.rst
	   vf_smoke: http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/test_plans/vf_smoke_test_plan.rst
	   asan_smoke: http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/test_plans/asan_smoke_test_plan.rst

TestSuite:
	   pf_smoke: http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/tests/TestSuite_pf_smoke.py
	   vf_smoke: http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/tests/TestSuite_vf_smoke.py
	   virtio_smoke: http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/tests/TestSuite_virtio_smoke.py
	   asan_smoke: http://git.dpdk.org/tools/dts/tree/tests/TestSuite_asan_smoke.py


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