The DevX interface exposes a new feature to the PMD that can allocate a
batch of counters by one FW command. It can improve the flow
transaction rate (with count action).
Add a new counter pools mechanism to manage HW counters in the PMD.
So, for each flow with counter creation the PMD will try to find a free
counter in the PMD pools container and only if there is no a free
counter, it will allocate a new DevX batch counters.
Currently we cannot support batch counter for a group 0 flow, so
create a 2 container types, one which allocates counters one by
one and one which allocates X counters by the batch feature.
The allocated counters objects are never released back to the HW
assuming the flows maximum number will be close to the actual value of
the flows number.
Later, it can be updated, and dynamic release mechanism can be added.
The counters are contained in pools, each pool with 512 counters.
The pools are contained in counter containers according to the
allocation resolution type - single or batch.
The cache memory of the counters statistics is saved as raw data per
pool.
All the raw data memory is allocated for all the container in one
memory allocation and is managed by counter_stats_mem_mng structure
which registers all the raw memory to the HW.
Each pool points to one raw data structure.
The query operation is in pool resolution which updates all the pool
counter raw data by one operation.
Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
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