Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] pktgen: Add imix distribution bins

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 at 00:32, Nicholas Richardson
<richardsonnick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Nick Richardson <richardsonnick@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In order to represent the distribution of imix packet sizes, a
> pre-computed data structure is used. It features 100 (IMIX_PRECISION)
> "bins". Contiguous ranges of these bins represent the respective
> packet size of each imix entry. This is done to avoid the overhead of
> selecting the correct imix packet size based on the corresponding weights.
>
> Example:
> imix_weights 40,7 576,4 1500,1
> total_weight = 7 + 4 + 1 = 12
>
> pkt_size 40 occurs 7/total_weight = 58% of the time
> pkt_size 576 occurs 4/total_weight = 33% of the time
> pkt_size 1500 occurs 1/total_weight = 9% of the time
>
> We generate a random number between 0-100 and select the corresponding
> packet size based on the specified weights.
> Eg. random number = 358723895 % 100 = 65
> Selects the packet size corresponding to index:65 in the pre-computed
> imix_distribution array.
> An example of the  pre-computed array is below:
>
> The imix_distribution will look like the following:
> 0        ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> 1        ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> 2        ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> [...]    ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> 57       ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> 58       ->  1 (index of imix_entry.size == 576)
> [...]    ->  1 (index of imix_entry.size == 576)
> 90       ->  1 (index of imix_entry.size == 576)
> 91       ->  2 (index of imix_entry.size == 1500)
> [...]    ->  2 (index of imix_entry.size == 1500)
> 99       ->  2 (index of imix_entry.size == 1500)
>
> Create and use "bin" representation of the imix distribution.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Richardson <richardsonnick@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/core/pktgen.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
> index a7e45eaccef7..ac1de15000e2 100644
> --- a/net/core/pktgen.c
> +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
> @@ -177,6 +177,7 @@
>  #define MPLS_STACK_BOTTOM htonl(0x00000100)
>  /* Max number of internet mix entries that can be specified in imix_weights. */
>  #define MAX_IMIX_ENTRIES 20
> +#define IMIX_PRECISION 100 /* Precision of IMIX distribution */
>
>  #define func_enter() pr_debug("entering %s\n", __func__);
>
> @@ -354,6 +355,8 @@ struct pktgen_dev {
>         /* IMIX */
>         unsigned int n_imix_entries;
>         struct imix_pkt imix_entries[MAX_IMIX_ENTRIES];
> +       /* Maps 0-IMIX_PRECISION range to imix_entry based on probability*/
> +       __u8 imix_distribution[IMIX_PRECISION];
>
>         /* MPLS */
>         unsigned int nr_labels; /* Depth of stack, 0 = no MPLS */
> @@ -483,6 +486,7 @@ static void pktgen_stop_all_threads(struct pktgen_net *pn);
>
>  static void pktgen_stop(struct pktgen_thread *t);
>  static void pktgen_clear_counters(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev);
> +static void fill_imix_distribution(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev);

Linux next 20210813 tag arm builds failed due to following build errors.

Regressions found on arm:

 - build/gcc-10-ixp4xx_defconfig
 - build/gcc-10-orion5x_defconfig
 - build/gcc-10-multi_v5_defconfig

net/core/pktgen.c:489:13: warning: 'fill_imix_distribution' used but
never defined
 static void fill_imix_distribution(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev);
             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ERROR: modpost: "fill_imix_distribution" [net/core/pktgen.ko] undefined!
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:150: modules-only.symvers] Error 1
make[2]: *** Deleting file 'modules-only.symvers'
make[2]: Target '__modpost' not remade because of errors.
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1918: modules] Error 2

Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>

Steps to reproduce:

# TuxMake is a command line tool and Python library that provides
# portable and repeatable Linux kernel builds across a variety of
# architectures, toolchains, kernel configurations, and make targets.
#
# TuxMake supports the concept of runtimes.
# See https://docs.tuxmake.org/runtimes/, for that to work it requires
# that you install podman or docker on your system.
#
# To install tuxmake on your system globally:
# sudo pip3 install -U tuxmake
#
# See https://docs.tuxmake.org/ for complete documentation.

tuxmake --runtime podman --target-arch arm --toolchain gcc-10
--kconfig orion5x_defconfig

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