Hi Kevin,

My 2c below..

/Billy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:ovs-dev-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Traynor
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 7:11 PM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: [ovs-dev] [RFC PATCH v2] dpif-netdev: Add port/queue tiebreaker to
> rxq_cycle_sort.
> 
> rxq_cycle_sort is used to sort the rx queues by their measured number of 
> cycles.
> In the event that they are equal 0 could be returned.
> However, it is observed that returning 0 results in a different sort order on
> Windows/Linux. This is ok in practice but it causes a unit test failure for
> "1007: PMD - pmd-cpu-mask/distribution of rx queues" on Windows.
> 
> In order to have a consistent sort result, introduce a tiebreaker of 
> port/queue.
> 
> Fixes: 655856ef39b9 ("dpif-netdev: Change rxq_scheduling to use rxq processing
> cycles.")
> Reported-by: Alin Gabriel Serdean <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
> v2: Inadvertently reversed the order for non-tiebreak cases in v1. Fix that.
> 
>  lib/dpif-netdev.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/dpif-netdev.c b/lib/dpif-netdev.c index 0a62630..57451e9 
> 100644
> --- a/lib/dpif-netdev.c
> +++ b/lib/dpif-netdev.c
> @@ -3452,4 +3452,5 @@ rxq_cycle_sort(const void *a, const void *b)
>      uint64_t total_qa, total_qb;
>      unsigned i;
> +    int winner = 1;
> 
>      qa = *(struct dp_netdev_rxq **) a;
> @@ -3464,8 +3465,16 @@ rxq_cycle_sort(const void *a, const void *b)
>      dp_netdev_rxq_set_cycles(qb, RXQ_CYCLES_PROC_HIST, total_qb);
> 
[[BO'M]]
I think it's worth adding a comment to state this compare function never 
return's 0 and that the reason for this (the sort order difference on different 
OSs).

Also the function should probably be called rxq_cycle_compare as its really 
comparing entries rather than sorting a list of entries And it's used as the 
compar arg to qsort.

> -    if (total_qa >= total_qb) {
> -        return -1;
> +    if (total_qa > total_qb) {
> +        winner = -1;
> +    } else if (total_qa == total_qb) {
> +        /* Cycles are the same.  Tiebreak on port/queue id. */
> +        if (qb->port->port_no > qa->port->port_no) {
> +            winner = -1;
> +        } else if (qa->port->port_no == qb->port->port_no) {
> +            winner = netdev_rxq_get_queue_id(qa->rx)
> +                    - netdev_rxq_get_queue_id(qb->rx);
> +        }
>      }
> -    return 1;
> +    return winner;
>  }
> 
> --
> 1.8.3.1
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