Add a simple on/off switch that will enable saving power when no
packets are arriving. It is based on counting the number of empty
polls and, when the number reaches a certain threshold, entering an
architecture-defined optimized power state that will either wait
until a TSC timestamp expires, or when packets arrive.
This API mandates a core-to-single-queue mapping (that is, multiple
queued per device are supported, but they have to be polled on different
cores).
This design is using PMD RX callbacks.
1. UMWAIT/UMONITOR:
When a certain threshold of empty polls is reached, the core will go
into a power optimized sleep while waiting on an address of next RX
descriptor to be written to.
2. TPAUSE/Pause instruction
This method uses the pause (or TPAUSE, if available) instruction to
avoid busy polling.
3. Frequency scaling
Reuse existing DPDK power library to scale up/down core frequency
depending on traffic volume.
Signed-off-by: Liang Ma <liang.j.ma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
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