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Jakub Kicinski says: ==================== nfp: flower: speed up stats update loop This set from Pieter improves performance of processing FW stats update notifications. The FW seems to send those at relatively high rate (roughly ten per second per flow), therefore if we want to approach the million flows mark we have to be very careful about our data structures. We tried rhashtable for stat updates, but according to our experiments rhashtable lookup on a u32 takes roughly 60ns on an Xeon E5-2670 v3. Which translate to a hard limit of 16M lookups per second on this CPU, and, according to perf record jhash and memcmp account for 60% of CPU usage on the core handling the updates. Given that our statistic IDs are already array indices, and considering each statistic is only 24B in size, we decided to forego the use of hashtables and use a directly indexed array. The CPU savings are considerable. With the recent improvements in TC core and with our own bottlenecks out of the way Pieter removes the artificial limit of 128 flows, and allows the driver to install as many flows as FW supports. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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