With introduction of in_flight_bitmask, the whole 32 bits of tag can be
used. Further more, this patch fixed the integer overflow when finding
the matched tags.
The maximum number workers is now defined as 64, which is length of
double-word. The link between number of workers and RTE_MAX_LCORE is
now removed. Compile time check is added to ensure the
RTE_DISTRIB_MAX_WORKERS is less than or equal to size of double-word.
Signed-off-by: Qinglai Xiao <jigsaw@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Take the existing get_pkt API and split out the parts for requesting a new
packet from the part to poll for arrival of a new packet. These individual
functions can then be used independently of the get function, which still acts
as before.
The split functions for request and poll will allow a worker to pull
packets from multiple distributors, or to act as multiple workers with a
single distributor if needed for better performance.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
This adds the code for a new Intel DPDK library for packet distribution.
The distributor is a component which is designed to pass packets
one-at-a-time to workers, with dynamic load balancing. Using the RSS
field in the mbuf as a tag, the distributor tracks what packet tag is
being processed by what worker and then ensures that no two packets with
the same tag are in-flight simultaneously. Once a tag is not in-flight,
then the next packet with that tag will be sent to the next available
core.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Tested-by: Waterman Cao <waterman.cao@intel.com>
[Thomas: add doxygen @file comment]
