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        "From": "Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>",
        "To": "Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>, Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>,\n Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>, Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>",
        "CC": "<dev@dpdk.org>, Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>, Bing Zhao\n <bingz@nvidia.com>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH v2 00/11] net/mlx5: flow insertion performance improvements",
        "Date": "Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:51:45 +0100",
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    "content": "Goal of this patchset is to improve the throughput of flow insertion\nand deletion in mlx5 PMD when HW Steering flow engine is used.\n\n- Patch 1 - Use preallocated per-queue, per-actions template buffer\n  for storing translated flow actions, instead of allocating and\n  filling it on demand, on each flow operation.\n- Patches 2-4 - Make resource index allocation optional. This allocation\n  will be skipped when it is not required by the created template table.\n- Patches 5-7 - Reduce memory footprint of the internal flow queue.\n- Patch 8 - Remove indirection between flow job and flow itself,\n  by using flow as an operation container.\n- Patches 9-10 - Reduce memory footpring of flow struct by moving\n  rarely used flow fields outside of the main flow struct.\n  These fields will accesses only when needed.\n  Also remove unneeded `zmalloc` usage.\n- Patch 11 - Remove unneeded device status check in flow create.\n\nIn general all of these changes result in the following improvements\n(all numbers are averaged Kflows/sec):\n\n|              | Insertion) |   +%   | Deletion |   +%  |\n|--------------|:----------:|:------:|:--------:|:-----:|\n| baseline     |   6338.7   |        |  9739.6  |       |\n| improvements |   6978.8   | +10.1% |  10432.4 | +7.1% |\n\nThe basic benchmark was run on ConnectX-6 Dx (22.40.1000),\non the system with Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 CPU.\n\nv2:\n\n- Rebased.\n- Applied Acked-by tags from previous version.\n\nBing Zhao (2):\n  net/mlx5: skip the unneeded resource index allocation\n  net/mlx5: remove unneeded device status checking\n\nDariusz Sosnowski (7):\n  net/mlx5: allocate local DR rule action buffers\n  net/mlx5: remove action params from job\n  net/mlx5: remove flow pattern from job\n  net/mlx5: remove updated flow from job\n  net/mlx5: use flow as operation container\n  net/mlx5: move rarely used flow fields outside\n  net/mlx5: reuse flow fields\n\nErez Shitrit (2):\n  net/mlx5/hws: add check for matcher rule update support\n  net/mlx5/hws: add check if matcher contains complex rules\n\n drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr.h         |  16 +\n drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_action.c  |   6 +\n drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_action.h  |   2 +\n drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_matcher.c |  29 +\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h               |  29 +-\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.h          | 128 ++++-\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c       | 794 ++++++++++++++++----------\n 7 files changed, 666 insertions(+), 338 deletions(-)\n\n--\n2.39.2"
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