[PATCH v6 0/5] lcore telemetry improvements

[Robin Jarry]

This is a follow up on previous work by Kevin Laatz:

http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=24658&state=*

This series is aimed at allowing DPDK applications to expose their CPU
usage stats in the DPDK telemetry under /eal/lcore/info. This is a much
more basic and naive approach which leaves the cpu cycles accounting
completely up to the application.

For reference, I have implemented a draft patch in OvS to use
rte_lcore_register_usage_cb() and report the already available busy
cycles information.

https://github.com/rjarry/ovs/commit/643e672fe388e348ea7ccbbda6f5a87a066fd919

Changes since v5:

- Added/rephrased some inline comments to address reviews.
- Added a new commit that adds the /eal/lcore/usage endpoint as
  suggested by Kevin and Morten.

Changes since v4:

- rte_lcore_usage_cb now takes a pointer to a rte_lcore_usage structure.
  I chose not to include any API version tracking mechanism since the
  unsupported/unused fields can simply be left to zero. This is only
  telemetry after all.

Changes since v3:

- Changed nomenclature from CPU cycles to TSC cycles in the docstring of
  rte_lcore_usage_cb.

Changes since v2:

- Fixed typos in docstrings.
- Used if (xxx != NULL) instead of if (xxx) test convention.
- Guarded against an unlikely race if rte_lcore_dump() is called by
  a thread while another one calls rte_lcore_register_usage_cb(NULL).
- s/utilization/usage/
- Fixed build on Windows.

Changes since v1:

- The cpuset field in telemetry is now a JSON list of CPU ids.
- Applications must now report their raw CPU cycles counts. The busyness
  ratio and rate of change is left to external monitoring tools.
- Renamed show lcores -> dump_lcores in testpmd.

Robin Jarry (5):
  eal: add lcore info in telemetry
  eal: allow applications to report their cpu usage
  testpmd: add dump_lcores command
  testpmd: report lcore usage
  telemetry: add /eal/lcore/usage endpoint

 app/test-pmd/5tswap.c             |   5 +-
 app/test-pmd/cmdline.c            |   3 +
 app/test-pmd/csumonly.c           |   6 +-
 app/test-pmd/flowgen.c            |   2 +-
 app/test-pmd/icmpecho.c           |   6 +-
 app/test-pmd/iofwd.c              |   5 +-
 app/test-pmd/macfwd.c             |   5 +-
 app/test-pmd/macswap.c            |   5 +-
 app/test-pmd/noisy_vnf.c          |   4 +
 app/test-pmd/rxonly.c             |   5 +-
 app/test-pmd/shared_rxq_fwd.c     |   5 +-
 app/test-pmd/testpmd.c            |  39 +++++-
 app/test-pmd/testpmd.h            |  14 +-
 app/test-pmd/txonly.c             |   7 +-
 lib/eal/common/eal_common_lcore.c | 205 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 lib/eal/include/rte_lcore.h       |  35 +++++
 lib/eal/version.map               |   1 +
 17 files changed, 322 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

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