This patch adds support for meter configuration profiles.
Benefits: simplified configuration procedure, improved performance.
Q1: What is the configuration profile and why does it make sense?
A1: The configuration profile represents the set of configuration
parameters for a given meter object, such as the rates and sizes for
the token buckets. The configuration profile concept makes sense when
many meter objects share the same configuration, which is the typical
usage model: thousands of traffic flows are each individually metered
according to just a few service levels (i.e. profiles).
Q2: How is the configuration profile improving the performance?
A2: The performance improvement is achieved by reducing the memory
footprint of a meter object, which results in better cache utilization
for the typical case when large arrays of meter objects are used. The
internal data structures stored for each meter object contain:
a) Constant fields: Low level translation of the configuration
parameters that does not change post-configuration. This is
really duplicated for all meters that use the same
configuration. This is the configuration profile data that is
moved away from the meter object. Current size (implementation
dependent): srTCM = 32 bytes, trTCM = 32 bytes.
b) Variable fields: Time stamps and running counters that change
during the on-going traffic metering process. Current size
(implementation dependent): srTCM = 24 bytes, trTCM = 32 bytes.
Therefore, by moving the constant fields to a separate profile
data structure shared by all the meters with the same
configuration, the size of the meter object is reduced by ~50%.
Signed-off-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>
Replace the BSD license header with the SPDX tag for files
with only an Intel copyright on them.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
As per srTCM RFC 2697, we should be updating the E bucket only after the
C bucket overflows. This patch fixes the current DPDK implementation,
where we are updating both the buckets simultaneously at the same rate
(CIR) which results in token accumulation rate of (2*CIR).
Signed-off-by: Nikhil Jagtap <nikhil.jagtap@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
This patch fix doxygen warnings when generating documentation
for qos_meter and qos_sched.
Signed-off-by: Michal Jastrzebski <michalx.k.jastrzebski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
This commit removes trailing whitespace from lines in files. Almost all
files are affected, as the BSD license copyright header had trailing
whitespace on 4 lines in it [hence the number of files reporting 8 lines
changed in the diffstat].
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
[Thomas: remove spaces before tabs in libs]
[Thomas: remove more trailing spaces in non-C files]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
