Keep kernel flow stats for each NUMA node rather than each (logical)
CPU.  This avoids using the per-CPU allocator and removes most of the
kernel-side OVS locking overhead otherwise on the top of perf reports
and allows OVS to scale better with higher number of threads.

With 9 handlers and 4 revalidators netperf TCP_CRR test flow setup
rate doubles on a server with two hyper-threaded physical CPUs (16
logical cores each) compared to the current OVS master.  Tested with
non-trivial flow table with a TCP port match rule forcing all new
connections with unique port numbers to OVS userspace.  The IP
addresses are still wildcarded, so the kernel flows are not considered
as exact match 5-tuple flows.  This type of flows can be expected to
appear in large numbers as the result of more effective wildcarding
made possible by improvements in OVS userspace flow classifier.

Perf results for this test (master):

Events: 305K cycles
+   8.43%     ovs-vswitchd  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] mutex_spin_on_owner
+   5.64%     ovs-vswitchd  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __ticket_spin_lock
+   4.75%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] find_match_wc
+   3.32%     ovs-vswitchd  libpthread-2.15.so  [.] pthread_mutex_lock
+   2.61%     ovs-vswitchd  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] pcpu_alloc_area
+   2.19%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] flow_hash_in_minimask_range
+   2.03%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] intel_idle
+   1.84%     ovs-vswitchd  libpthread-2.15.so  [.] pthread_mutex_unlock
+   1.64%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] classifier_lookup
+   1.58%     ovs-vswitchd  libc-2.15.so        [.] 0x7f4e6
+   1.07%     ovs-vswitchd  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] memset
+   1.03%          netperf  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __ticket_spin_lock
+   0.92%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __ticket_spin_lock
...

And after this patch:

Events: 356K cycles
+   6.85%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] find_match_wc
+   4.63%     ovs-vswitchd  libpthread-2.15.so  [.] pthread_mutex_lock
+   3.06%     ovs-vswitchd  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __ticket_spin_lock
+   2.81%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] flow_hash_in_minimask_range
+   2.51%     ovs-vswitchd  libpthread-2.15.so  [.] pthread_mutex_unlock
+   2.27%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] classifier_lookup
+   1.84%     ovs-vswitchd  libc-2.15.so        [.] 0x15d30f
+   1.74%     ovs-vswitchd  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] mutex_spin_on_owner
+   1.47%          swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] intel_idle
+   1.34%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] flow_hash_in_minimask
+   1.33%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] rule_actions_unref
+   1.16%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] hindex_node_with_hash
+   1.16%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] do_xlate_actions
+   1.09%     ovs-vswitchd  ovs-vswitchd        [.] ofproto_rule_ref
+   1.01%          netperf  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __ticket_spin_lock
...

There is a small increase in kernel spinlock overhead due to the same
spinlock being shared between multiple cores of the same physical CPU,
but that is barely visible in the netperf TCP_CRR test performance
(maybe ~1% performance drop, hard to tell exactly due to variance in
the test results), when testing for kernel module throughput (with no
userspace activity, handful of kernel flows).

On flow setup, a single stats instance is allocated (for the NUMA node
0).  As CPUs from multiple NUMA nodes start updating stats, new
NUMA-node specific stats instances are allocated.  This allocation on
the packet processing code path is made to never block or look for
emergency memory pools, minimizing the allocation latency.  If the
allocation fails, the existing preallocated stats instance is used.
Also, if only CPUs from one NUMA-node are updating the preallocated
stats instance, no additional stats instances are allocated.  This
eliminates the need to pre-allocate stats instances that will not be
used, also relieving the stats reader from the burden of reading stats
that are never used.
Signed-off-by: NJarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Acked-by: NPravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>

The 5-tuple optimization becomes unnecessary with a later per-NUMA
node stats patch.  Remove it first to make the changes easier to
grasp.
Signed-off-by: NJarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>

Both mega flow mask's reference counter and per flow table mask list
should only be accessed when holding ovs_mutex() lock. However
this is not true with ovs_flow_table_flush(). The patch fixes this bug.
Reported-by: NJoe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>

With mega flow implementation ovs flow can be shared between
multiple CPUs which makes stats updates highly contended
operation. This patch uses per-CPU stats in cases where a flow
is likely to be shared (if there is a wildcard in the 5-tuple
and therefore likely to be spread by RSS). In other situations,
it uses the current strategy, saving memory and allocation time.
Signed-off-by: NPravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>

API changes only for code readability. No functional chnages.

This patch removes the underscored version. Added a new API
ovs_flow_tbl_lookup_stats() that returns the n_mask_hits.

Reported by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Reviewed-by: NThomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>

Collect mega flow mask stats. ovs-dpctl show command can be used to
display them for debugging and performance tuning.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>

Hides mega-flow implementation in flow_table.c rather than
datapath.c.
Signed-off-by: NPravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>

ovs-flow rehash does not touch mega flow list. Following patch
moves it dp struct datapath.  Avoid one extra indirection for
accessing mega-flow list head on every packet receive.
Signed-off-by: NPravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>

Over the time datapath.c and flow.c has became pretty large files.
Following patch restructures functionality of component into three
different components:

flow.c: contains flow extract.
flow_netlink.c: netlink flow api.
flow_table.c: flow table api.

This patch restructures code without changing logic.
Signed-off-by: NPravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>