Liang Ma 682a645438 power: add ethdev power management
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>
2021-01-29 15:29:48 +01:00

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
# Copyright(c) 2017 Intel Corporation
if not is_linux
build = false
reason = 'only supported on Linux'
endif
sources = files('rte_power.c', 'power_acpi_cpufreq.c',
'power_kvm_vm.c', 'guest_channel.c',
'rte_power_empty_poll.c',
'power_pstate_cpufreq.c',
'rte_power_pmd_mgmt.c',
'power_common.c')
headers = files('rte_power.h','rte_power_empty_poll.h',
'rte_power_pmd_mgmt.h',
'rte_power_guest_channel.h')
deps += ['timer', 'ethdev']