In the current implement when comparing two flow keys, we will return
result after comparing the whole key from start to end.
In our optimization, we will return result in the first none-zero
comparison, then we will improve the flow table looking up efficiency.
Signed-off-by: Baowen Zheng <baowen.zheng@corigine.com>
Signed-off-by: Louis Peens <louis.peens@corigine.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The flow_lookup() function uses per CPU variables, which must be called
with BH disabled. However, this is fine in the general NAPI use case
where the local BH is disabled. But, it's also called from the netlink
context. The below patch makes sure that even in the netlink path, the
BH is disabled.
In addition, u64_stats_update_begin() requires a lock to ensure one writer
which is not ensured here. Making it per-CPU and disabling NAPI (softirq)
ensures that there is always only one writer.
Fixes: eac87c413b ("net: openvswitch: reorder masks array based on usage")
Reported-by: Juri Lelli <jlelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/160295903253.7789.826736662555102345.stgit@ebuild
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
keep_flows was introduced by [1], which used as flag to delete flows or not.
When rehashing or expanding the table instance, we will not flush the flows.
Now don't use it anymore, remove it.
[1] - acd051f176
Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Decrease table->count and ufid_count unconditionally,
because we only don't use count or ufid_count to count
when flushing the flows. To simplify the codes, we
remove the "count" argument of table_instance_flow_free.
To avoid a bug when deleting flows in the future, add
WARN_ON in flush flows function.
Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a counter that counts the number of masks cache hits, and
export it through the megaflow netlink statistics.
Reviewed-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch reorders the masks array every 4 seconds based on their
usage count. This greatly reduces the masks per packet hit, and
hence the overall performance. Especially in the OVS/OVN case for
OpenShift.
Here are some results from the OVS/OVN OpenShift test, which use
8 pods, each pod having 512 uperf connections, each connection
sends a 64-byte request and gets a 1024-byte response (TCP).
All uperf clients are on 1 worker node while all uperf servers are
on the other worker node.
Kernel without this patch : 7.71 Gbps
Kernel with this patch applied: 14.52 Gbps
We also run some tests to verify the rebalance activity does not
lower the flow insertion rate, which does not.
Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Theurer <atheurer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() has built-in RCU and lock checking.
Pass cond argument to list_for_each_entry_rcu() to silence
false lockdep warning when CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST is enabled
by default.
Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The full looking up on flow table traverses all mask array.
If mask-array is too large, the number of invalid flow-mask
increase, performance will be drop.
One bad case, for example: M means flow-mask is valid and NULL
of flow-mask means deleted.
+-------------------------------------------+
| M | NULL | ... | NULL | M|
+-------------------------------------------+
In that case, without this patch, openvswitch will traverses all
mask array, because there will be one flow-mask in the tail. This
patch changes the way of flow-mask inserting and deleting, and the
mask array will be keep as below: there is not a NULL hole. In the
fast path, we can "break" "for" (not "continue") in flow_lookup
when we get a NULL flow-mask.
"break"
v
+-------------------------------------------+
| M | M | NULL |... | NULL | NULL|
+-------------------------------------------+
This patch don't optimize slow or control path, still using ma->max
to traverse. Slow path:
* tbl_mask_array_realloc
* ovs_flow_tbl_lookup_exact
* flow_mask_find
Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Port the codes to linux upstream and with little changes.
Pravin B Shelar, says:
| In case hash collision on mask cache, OVS does extra flow
| lookup. Following patch avoid it.
Link: 0e6efbe271
Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When creating and inserting flow-mask, if there is no available
flow-mask, we realloc the mask array. When removing flow-mask,
if necessary, we shrink mask array.
Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Port the codes to linux upstream and with little changes.
Pravin B Shelar, says:
| mask caches index of mask in mask_list. On packet recv OVS
| need to traverse mask-list to get cached mask. Therefore array
| is better for retrieving cached mask. This also allows better
| cache replacement algorithm by directly checking mask's existence.
Link: d49fc3ff53
Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The idea of this optimization comes from a patch which
is committed in 2014, openvswitch community. The author
is Pravin B Shelar. In order to get high performance, I
implement it again. Later patches will use it.
Pravin B Shelar, says:
| On every packet OVS needs to lookup flow-table with every
| mask until it finds a match. The packet flow-key is first
| masked with mask in the list and then the masked key is
| looked up in flow-table. Therefore number of masks can
| affect packet processing performance.
Link: 5604935e4e
Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There is a flow_stats structure defined in include/net/flow_offload.h
and a follow up patch adds #include <net/flow_offload.h> to
net/sch_generic.h.
This breaks compilation since OVS codebase includes net/sock.h which
pulls in linux/filter.h which includes net/sch_generic.h.
In file included from ./include/net/sch_generic.h:18:0,
from ./include/linux/filter.h:25,
from ./include/net/sock.h:59,
from ./include/linux/tcp.h:19,
from net/openvswitch/datapath.c:24
This definition takes precedence on OVS since it is placed in the
networking core, so rename flow_stats in OVS to sw_flow_stats since
this structure is contained in sw_flow.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 21 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141334.228102212@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When calling the flow_free() to free the flow, we call many times
(cpu_possible_mask, eg. 128 as default) cpumask_next(). That will
take up our CPU usage if we call the flow_free() frequently.
When we put all packets to userspace via upcall, and OvS will send
them back via netlink to ovs_packet_cmd_execute(will call flow_free).
The test topo is shown as below. VM01 sends TCP packets to VM02,
and OvS forward packtets. When testing, we use perf to report the
system performance.
VM01 --- OvS-VM --- VM02
Without this patch, perf-top show as below: The flow_free() is
3.02% CPU usage.
4.23% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
3.62% [kernel] [k] __do_softirq
3.16% [kernel] [k] __memcpy
3.02% [kernel] [k] flow_free
2.42% libc-2.17.so [.] __memcpy_ssse3_back
2.18% [kernel] [k] copy_user_generic_unrolled
2.17% [kernel] [k] find_next_bit
When applied this patch, perf-top show as below: Not shown on
the list anymore.
4.11% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
3.79% [kernel] [k] __do_softirq
3.46% [kernel] [k] __memcpy
2.73% libc-2.17.so [.] __memcpy_ssse3_back
2.25% [kernel] [k] copy_user_generic_unrolled
1.89% libc-2.17.so [.] _int_malloc
1.53% ovs-vswitchd [.] xlate_actions
With this patch, the TCP throughput(we dont use Megaflow Cache
+ Microflow Cache) between VMs is 1.18Gbs/sec up to 1.30Gbs/sec
(maybe ~10% performance imporve).
This patch adds cpumask struct, the cpu_used_mask stores the cpu_id
that the flow used. And we only check the flow_stats on the cpu we
used, and it is unncessary to check all possible cpu when getting,
cleaning, and updating the flow_stats. Adding the cpu_used_mask to
sw_flow struct does’t increase the cacheline number.
Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
