[dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: [PATCH v1 20/26] node: ipv4 lookup for x86

[Ray Kinsella]

On 19/03/2020 16:13, Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ray Kinsella <mdr at ashroe.eu>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 9:21 PM
>> To: Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>; Jerin
>> Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj at marvell.com>; Nithin Kumar Dabilpuram
>> <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>
>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; thomas at monjalon.net;
>> david.marchand at redhat.com; mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com; Kiran
>> Kumar Kokkilagadda <kirankumark at marvell.com>
>> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 20/26] node: ipv4 lookup
>> for x86
>>
>>
>>
>> On 19/03/2020 14:22, Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula wrote:
>>>> On 18/03/2020 21:35, jerinj at marvell.com wrote:
>>>>> From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Add IPv4 lookup process function for ip4_lookup
>>>>> rte_node. This node performs LPM lookup using x86_64
>>>>> vector supported RTE_LPM API on every packet received
>>>>> and forwards it to a next node that is identified by
>>>>> lookup result.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kiran Kumar K <kirankumark at marvell.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  lib/librte_node/ip4_lookup.c | 245
>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>  1 file changed, 245 insertions(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/lib/librte_node/ip4_lookup.c
>>>> b/lib/librte_node/ip4_lookup.c
>>>>> index d7fcd1158..c003e9c91 100644
>>>>> --- a/lib/librte_node/ip4_lookup.c
>>>>> +++ b/lib/librte_node/ip4_lookup.c
>>>>> @@ -264,6 +264,251 @@ ip4_lookup_node_process(struct
>> rte_graph
>>>> *graph, struct rte_node *node,
>>>>>  	return nb_objs;
>>>>>  }
>>>>>
>>>>> +#elif defined(RTE_ARCH_X86)
>>>>> +
>>>>> +/* X86 SSE */
>>>>> +static uint16_t
>>>>> +ip4_lookup_node_process(struct rte_graph *graph, struct
>> rte_node
>>>> *node,
>>>>> +			void **objs, uint16_t nb_objs)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> +	struct rte_mbuf *mbuf0, *mbuf1, *mbuf2, *mbuf3, **pkts;
>>>>> +	rte_edge_t next0, next1, next2, next3, next_index;
>>>>> +	struct rte_ipv4_hdr *ipv4_hdr;
>>>>> +	struct rte_ether_hdr *eth_hdr;
>>>>> +	uint32_t ip0, ip1, ip2, ip3;
>>>>> +	void **to_next, **from;
>>>>> +	uint16_t last_spec = 0;
>>>>> +	uint16_t n_left_from;
>>>>> +	struct rte_lpm *lpm;
>>>>> +	uint16_t held = 0;
>>>>> +	uint32_t drop_nh;
>>>>> +	rte_xmm_t dst;
>>>>> +	__m128i dip; /* SSE register */
>>>>> +	int rc, i;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	/* Speculative next */
>>>>> +	next_index = RTE_NODE_IP4_LOOKUP_NEXT_REWRITE;
>>>>> +	/* Drop node */
>>>>> +	drop_nh =
>>>> ((uint32_t)RTE_NODE_IP4_LOOKUP_NEXT_PKT_DROP) << 16;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	/* Get socket specific LPM from ctx */
>>>>> +	lpm = *((struct rte_lpm **)node->ctx);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	pkts = (struct rte_mbuf **)objs;
>>>>> +	from = objs;
>>>>> +	n_left_from = nb_objs;
>>>>
>>>> I doubt this initial prefetch of the first 4 packets has any benefit.
>>>
>>> Ack will remove in v2 for x86.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> +	if (n_left_from >= 4) {
>>>>> +		for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
>>>>> +			rte_prefetch0(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(pkts[i],
>>>>> +						       struct rte_ether_hdr
>>>> *) +
>>>>> +				      1);
>>>>> +		}
>>>>> +	}
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	/* Get stream for the speculated next node */
>>>>> +	to_next = rte_node_next_stream_get(graph, node,
>>>> next_index, nb_objs);
>>>>
>>>> Suggest you don't reuse the hand-unrolling optimization from FD.io
>>>> VPP.
>>>> I have never found any performance benefit from them, and they
>>>> make the code unnecessarily verbose.
>>>>
>>>
>>> How would be take the benefit of rte_lpm_lookupx4 without
>> unrolling the loop?.
>>> Also, in future if we are using rte_rib and fib with a CPU supporting
>> wider SIMD we might
>>> need to unroll them further (AVX256 AND 512 currently
>> rte_lpm_lookup uses only 128bit
>>> since it is only uses SSE extension).
>>
>> Let the compiler do it for you, but using a constant vector length.
>> for (int i=0; i < 4; ++i) { ... }
>>
> 
> Ok, I think I misunderstood the previous comment. 
> It was only for the prefetches in the loop right?


no, it was for all the needless repetition.
hand-unrolling loops serve no purpose but to add verbosity. 

> 
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> +	while (n_left_from >= 4) {
>>>>> +		/* Prefetch next-next mbufs */
>>>>> +		if (likely(n_left_from >= 11)) {
>>>>> +			rte_prefetch0(pkts[8]);
>>>>> +			rte_prefetch0(pkts[9]);
>>>>> +			rte_prefetch0(pkts[10]);
>>>>> +			rte_prefetch0(pkts[11]);
>>>>> +		}
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		/* Prefetch next mbuf data */
>>>>> +		if (likely(n_left_from >= 7)) {
>>>>> +			rte_prefetch0(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(pkts[4],
>>>>> +						       struct rte_ether_hdr
>>>> *) +
>>>>> +				      1);
>>>>> +			rte_prefetch0(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(pkts[5],
>>>>> +						       struct rte_ether_hdr
>>>> *) +
>>>>> +				      1);
>>>>> +			rte_prefetch0(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(pkts[6],
>>>>> +						       struct rte_ether_hdr
>>>> *) +
>>>>> +				      1);
>>>>> +			rte_prefetch0(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(pkts[7],
>>>>> +						       struct rte_ether_hdr
>>>> *) +
>>>>> +				      1);
>>>>> +		}
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		mbuf0 = pkts[0];
>>>>> +		mbuf1 = pkts[1];
>>>>> +		mbuf2 = pkts[2];
>>>>> +		mbuf3 = pkts[3];
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		pkts += 4;
>>>>> +		n_left_from -= 4;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		/* Extract DIP of mbuf0 */
>>>>> +		eth_hdr = rte_pktmbuf_mtod(mbuf0, struct
>>>> rte_ether_hdr *);
>>>>> +		ipv4_hdr = (struct rte_ipv4_hdr *)(eth_hdr + 1);
>>>>> +		ip0 = ipv4_hdr->dst_addr;
>>>>> +		/* Extract cksum, ttl as ipv4 hdr is in cache */
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf0)->cksum = ipv4_hdr-
>>>>> hdr_checksum;
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf0)->ttl = ipv4_hdr-
>>>>> time_to_live;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		/* Extract DIP of mbuf1 */
>>>>> +		eth_hdr = rte_pktmbuf_mtod(mbuf1, struct
>>>> rte_ether_hdr *);
>>>>> +		ipv4_hdr = (struct rte_ipv4_hdr *)(eth_hdr + 1);
>>>>> +		ip1 = ipv4_hdr->dst_addr;
>>>>> +		/* Extract cksum, ttl as ipv4 hdr is in cache */
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf1)->cksum = ipv4_hdr-
>>>>> hdr_checksum;
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf1)->ttl = ipv4_hdr-
>>>>> time_to_live;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		/* Extract DIP of mbuf2 */
>>>>> +		eth_hdr = rte_pktmbuf_mtod(mbuf2, struct
>>>> rte_ether_hdr *);
>>>>> +		ipv4_hdr = (struct rte_ipv4_hdr *)(eth_hdr + 1);
>>>>> +		ip2 = ipv4_hdr->dst_addr;
>>>>> +		/* Extract cksum, ttl as ipv4 hdr is in cache */
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf2)->cksum = ipv4_hdr-
>>>>> hdr_checksum;
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf2)->ttl = ipv4_hdr-
>>>>> time_to_live;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		/* Extract DIP of mbuf3 */
>>>>> +		eth_hdr = rte_pktmbuf_mtod(mbuf3, struct
>>>> rte_ether_hdr *);
>>>>> +		ipv4_hdr = (struct rte_ipv4_hdr *)(eth_hdr + 1);
>>>>> +		ip3 = ipv4_hdr->dst_addr;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		/* Prepare for lookup x4 */
>>>>> +		dip = _mm_set_epi32(ip3, ip2, ip1, ip0);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		/* Byte swap 4 IPV4 addresses. */
>>>>> +		const __m128i bswap_mask = _mm_set_epi8(
>>>>> +			12, 13, 14, 15, 8, 9, 10, 11, 4, 5, 6, 7, 0, 1, 2, 3);
>>>>> +		dip = _mm_shuffle_epi8(dip, bswap_mask);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		/* Extract cksum, ttl as ipv4 hdr is in cache */
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf3)->cksum = ipv4_hdr-
>>>>> hdr_checksum;
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf3)->ttl = ipv4_hdr-
>>>>> time_to_live;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		/* Perform LPM lookup to get NH and next node */
>>>>> +		rte_lpm_lookupx4(lpm, dip, dst.u32, drop_nh);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		/* Extract next node id and NH */
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf0)->nh = dst.u32[0] &
>>>> 0xFFFF;
>>>>> +		next0 = (dst.u32[0] >> 16);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf1)->nh = dst.u32[1] &
>>>> 0xFFFF;
>>>>> +		next1 = (dst.u32[1] >> 16);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf2)->nh = dst.u32[2] &
>>>> 0xFFFF;
>>>>> +		next2 = (dst.u32[2] >> 16);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf3)->nh = dst.u32[3] &
>>>> 0xFFFF;
>>>>> +		next3 = (dst.u32[3] >> 16);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		/* Enqueue four to next node */
>>>>> +		rte_edge_t fix_spec =
>>>>> +			(next_index ^ next0) | (next_index ^ next1) |
>>>>> +			(next_index ^ next2) | (next_index ^ next3);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		if (unlikely(fix_spec)) {
>>>>> +			/* Copy things successfully speculated till now
>>>> */
>>>>> +			rte_memcpy(to_next, from, last_spec *
>>>> sizeof(from[0]));
>>>>> +			from += last_spec;
>>>>> +			to_next += last_spec;
>>>>> +			held += last_spec;
>>>>> +			last_spec = 0;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +			/* Next0 */
>>>>> +			if (next_index == next0) {
>>>>> +				to_next[0] = from[0];
>>>>> +				to_next++;
>>>>> +				held++;
>>>>> +			} else {
>>>>> +				rte_node_enqueue_x1(graph, node,
>>>> next0,
>>>>> +						    from[0]);
>>>>> +			}
>>>>> +
>>>>> +			/* Next1 */
>>>>> +			if (next_index == next1) {
>>>>> +				to_next[0] = from[1];
>>>>> +				to_next++;
>>>>> +				held++;
>>>>> +			} else {
>>>>> +				rte_node_enqueue_x1(graph, node,
>>>> next1,
>>>>> +						    from[1]);
>>>>> +			}
>>>>> +
>>>>> +			/* Next2 */
>>>>> +			if (next_index == next2) {
>>>>> +				to_next[0] = from[2];
>>>>> +				to_next++;
>>>>> +				held++;
>>>>> +			} else {
>>>>> +				rte_node_enqueue_x1(graph, node,
>>>> next2,
>>>>> +						    from[2]);
>>>>> +			}
>>>>> +
>>>>> +			/* Next3 */
>>>>> +			if (next_index == next3) {
>>>>> +				to_next[0] = from[3];
>>>>> +				to_next++;
>>>>> +				held++;
>>>>> +			} else {
>>>>> +				rte_node_enqueue_x1(graph, node,
>>>> next3,
>>>>> +						    from[3]);
>>>>> +			}
>>>>> +
>>>>> +			from += 4;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		} else {
>>>>> +			last_spec += 4;
>>>>> +		}
>>>>> +	}
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	while (n_left_from > 0) {
>>>>> +		uint32_t next_hop;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		mbuf0 = pkts[0];
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		pkts += 1;
>>>>> +		n_left_from -= 1;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		/* Extract DIP of mbuf0 */
>>>>> +		eth_hdr = rte_pktmbuf_mtod(mbuf0, struct
>>>> rte_ether_hdr *);
>>>>> +		ipv4_hdr = (struct rte_ipv4_hdr *)(eth_hdr + 1);
>>>>> +		/* Extract cksum, ttl as ipv4 hdr is in cache */
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf0)->cksum = ipv4_hdr-
>>>>> hdr_checksum;
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf0)->ttl = ipv4_hdr-
>>>>> time_to_live;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		rc = rte_lpm_lookup(lpm, rte_be_to_cpu_32(ipv4_hdr-
>>>>> dst_addr),
>>>>> +				    &next_hop);
>>>>> +		next_hop = (rc == 0) ? next_hop : drop_nh;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		rte_node_mbuf_priv1(mbuf0)->nh = next_hop &
>>>> 0xFFFF;
>>>>> +		next0 = (next_hop >> 16);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		if (unlikely(next_index ^ next0)) {
>>>>> +			/* Copy things successfully speculated till now
>>>> */
>>>>> +			rte_memcpy(to_next, from, last_spec *
>>>> sizeof(from[0]));
>>>>> +			from += last_spec;
>>>>> +			to_next += last_spec;
>>>>> +			held += last_spec;
>>>>> +			last_spec = 0;
>>>>> +
>>>>> +			rte_node_enqueue_x1(graph, node, next0,
>>>> from[0]);
>>>>> +			from += 1;
>>>>> +		} else {
>>>>> +			last_spec += 1;
>>>>> +		}
>>>>> +	}
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	/* !!! Home run !!! */
>>>>> +	if (likely(last_spec == nb_objs)) {
>>>>> +		rte_node_next_stream_move(graph, node,
>>>> next_index);
>>>>> +		return nb_objs;
>>>>> +	}
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	held += last_spec;
>>>>> +	/* Copy things successfully speculated till now */
>>>>> +	rte_memcpy(to_next, from, last_spec * sizeof(from[0]));
>>>>> +	rte_node_next_stream_put(graph, node, next_index, held);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	return nb_objs;
>>>>> +}
>>>>> +
>>>>>  #else
>>>>>
>>>>>  static uint16_t
>>>>>