[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 0/2] Support meter policy API

[Jiawei Wang]

Currently, the flow meter policy does not support multiple actions
per color; also the allowed action types per color are very limited.
In addition, the policy cannot be pre-defined.

Due to the growing in flow actions offload abilities there is a potential
for the user to use variety of actions per color differently.
This new meter policy API comes to allow this potential in the most ethdev
common way using rte_flow action definition.
A list of rte_flow actions will be provided by the user per color
in order to create a meter policy.
In addition, the API forces to pre-define the policy before
the meters creation in order to allow sharing of single policy
with multiple meters efficiently.

meter_policy_id is added into struct rte_mtr_params.
So that it can get the policy during the meters creation.

Add two common policy template as macros in the header file,

RFC ("ethdev: add pre-defined meter policy API")
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210318085815.804896-1-lizh@nvidia.com/

Depends-on: series=16351  ("Add ASO meter support in MLX5 PMD ")
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=16351

V2: Delete default policy and change relation doc files.
V3: Fix coding style issues.
V4: Fix comments about Depends-on
V5: Fix comments about rte_mtr_meter_policy_add.
V6: Delete policy example.
V7: Fix comments and place two common policy template as macros.
V8: Fix rebase conflict issues and CI warning
V9: Rebase and Fix the comments for softnic driver.

Haifei Luo (1):
  app/testpmd: support policy actions per color

Li Zhang (1):
  ethdev: add pre-defined meter policy API

 app/test-flow-perf/main.c                          |   7 -
 app/test-pmd/cmdline.c                             |  14 +-
 app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c                        | 118 +++++-
 app/test-pmd/cmdline_mtr.c                         | 257 ++++--------
 app/test-pmd/cmdline_mtr.h                         |   4 +-
 app/test-pmd/config.c                              |  32 ++
 app/test-pmd/testpmd.h                             |   2 +
 doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst                 |  21 +
 .../prog_guide/traffic_metering_and_policing.rst   |  16 +-
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst             |  21 +
 doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst        |  48 ++-
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h                            |  24 +-
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c                       |  46 --
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.h                       |  18 +-
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_aso.c                   |   8 +-
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c                    | 461 +--------------------
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_meter.c                 | 369 +----------------
 drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_flow.c         |  19 +-
 drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_internals.h    |  18 +-
 drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c        | 297 ++++++++++---
 lib/librte_ethdev/rte_flow.h                       |  22 +
 lib/librte_ethdev/rte_mtr.c                        |  55 ++-
 lib/librte_ethdev/rte_mtr.h                        | 223 +++++++---
 lib/librte_ethdev/rte_mtr_driver.h                 |  44 +-
 lib/librte_ethdev/version.map                      |   5 +-
 25 files changed, 879 insertions(+), 1270 deletions(-)

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