net: openvswitch: optimize flow-mask looking up
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>
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