Instead of a single big FlowProto array containing timeouts separately
for normal and emergency cases, plus the 'Free' pointer for the
protoctx, split up these arrays.
An array made of FlowProtoTimeout for just the normal timeouts and an
mirror of that for emergency timeouts are used through a pointer that
will be set at init and by swapped by the emergency logic. It's swapped
back when the emergency is over.
The free funcs are moved to their own array.
This simplifies the timeout lookup code and shrinks the data that is
commonly used.
Don't kill flow manager and recyclers before the rest of the threads. The
packet threads may still have packets from their pools. As the flow threads
would destroy their pools the packets would be lost.
This patch doesn't kill the threads, it just pulls them out of their run
loop and into a wait loop. The packet pools won't be cleared until all
threads are killed.
Wait for flow management threads to close before moving on to the
next steps in the shutdown process.
Don't destroy flow force reassembly packet pool too early. Worker
threads may still want to return packets to it.
Use new management API to run the flow recycler.
Make number of threads configurable:
flow:
memcap: 64mb
hash-size: 65536
prealloc: 10000
emergency-recovery: 30
managers: 2
recyclers: 2
This sets up 2 flow recyclers.
Use new management API to run the flow manager.
Support multiple flow managers, where each of them works with it's
own part of the flow hash.
Make number of threads configurable:
flow:
memcap: 64mb
hash-size: 65536
prealloc: 10000
emergency-recovery: 30
managers: 2
This sets up 2 flow managers.
Handle misc tasks only in instance 1: Handle defrag hash timeout
handing, host hash timeout handling and flow spare queue updating
only from the first instance.
On Tile, replace pthread_mutex_locks with queued spin locks (ticket
locks) for dataplane processing code. This is safe when running on
dataplane cores with one thread per core. The condition variables are
no-ops when the thread is spinning anyway.
For control plane threads, unix-manager, stats-logs, thread startup,
use pthread_mutex_locks. For these locks replaced SCMutex with SCCtrlMutex
and SCCond with SCCtrlCond.
Major redesign of the flow engine. Remove the flow queues that turned
out to be major choke points when using many threads. Flow manager now
walks the hash table directly. Simplify the way we get a new flow in
case of emergency.
Short sleep can lead to some really annoying performance issue in
some environnement like virtual systems. This technic was used in
the flow manager. This patch uses an alternate approach based on
a timed condition which is triggered each time a new flow has to
be created. This avoid to run out of flow. A counter is also done
to be able not to run the cleaning code at each new flow.
Victor Julien
Ken Steele
Anoop Saldanha
Eric Leblond