From: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haa...@intel.com>
This commit avoids many instances of "using subtable X for miniflow (x,y)"
in the ovs-vswitchd log when using the DPCLS Autovalidator. This occurs
when no specialized subtable is found, and the generic "_any" version of
the avx512 subtable search implementation was used. This change logs the
subtable usage once, avoiding duplicates.
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haa...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: kumar Amber <kumar.am...@intel.com>
---
v4:
- add doc updtae from Flavio
v3:
- add comments from Flavio
- add documentation update
---
Documentation/topics/dpdk/bridge.rst | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
lib/dpif-netdev-lookup-avx512-gather.c | 4 +--
2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/bridge.rst
b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/bridge.rst
index 0f70a0cad..374e03eb0 100644
--- a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/bridge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/bridge.rst
@@ -182,6 +182,40 @@ chosen, and the 2nd occurance of that priority is not
used. Put in logical
terms, a subtable is chosen if its priority is greater than the previous
best candidate.
+Optimizing Specific Subtable Search
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+During the packet classification, the datapath can use specialized
+lookup tables to optimize the search. However, not all situations
+are optimized. If you see a message like the following one in the OVS
+logs, it means that there is no specialized implementation available
+for the current networking traffic. In this case, OVS will continue
+to process the traffic normally using a more generic lookup table."
+
+"Using non-specialized AVX512 lookup for subtable (4,1) and possibly others."
+
+(Note that the numbers 4 and 1 will likely be different in your logs)
+
+Additional specialized lookups can be added to OVS if the user
+provides that log message along with the command output as show
+below to the OVS mailing list. Note that the numbers in the log
+message ("subtable (X,Y)") need to match with the numbers in
+the provided command output ("dp-extra-info:miniflow_bits(X,Y)").
+
+"ovs-appctl dpctl/dump-flows -m", which results in output like this:
+
+ ufid:82770b5d-ca38-44ff-8283-74ba36bd1ca5, skb_priority(0/0),skb_mark(0/0)
+ ,ct_state(0/0),ct_zone(0/0),ct_mark(0/0),ct_label(0/0),recirc_id(0),
+ dp_hash(0/0),in_port(pcap0),packet_type(ns=0,id=0),eth(src=00:00:00:00:00:
+ 00/00:00:00:00:00:00,dst=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff/00:00:00:00:00:00),eth_type(
+ 0x8100),vlan(vid=1,pcp=0),encap(eth_type(0x0800),ipv4(src=127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0
+ ,dst=127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0,proto=17/0,tos=0/0,ttl=64/0,frag=no),udp(src=53/0,
+ dst=53/0)), packets:77072681, bytes:3545343326, used:0.000s, dp:ovs,
+ actions:vhostuserclient0, dp-extra-info:miniflow_bits(4,1)
+
+Please send an email to the OVS mailing list ovs-dev@openvswitch.org with
+the output of the "dp-extra-info:miniflow_bits(4,1)" values.
+
CPU ISA Testing and Validation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/lib/dpif-netdev-lookup-avx512-gather.c
b/lib/dpif-netdev-lookup-avx512-gather.c
index bc359dc4a..ced846aa7 100644
--- a/lib/dpif-netdev-lookup-avx512-gather.c
+++ b/lib/dpif-netdev-lookup-avx512-gather.c
@@ -411,8 +411,8 @@ dpcls_subtable_avx512_gather_probe(uint32_t u0_bits,
uint32_t u1_bits)
*/
if (!f && (u0_bits + u1_bits) < (NUM_U64_IN_ZMM_REG * 2)) {
f = dpcls_avx512_gather_mf_any;
- VLOG_INFO("Using avx512_gather_mf_any for subtable (%d,%d)\n",
- u0_bits, u1_bits);
+ VLOG_INFO_ONCE("Using non-specialized AVX512 lookup for subtable"
+ " (%d,%d) and possibly others.", u0_bits, u1_bits);
}
return f;
--
2.25.1
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