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openvswitch: optimize flow compare and mask functions
authorAndy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:02:21 +0000 (13:02 -0700)
committerJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:13:09 +0000 (13:13 -0700)
commit51c762322dce78787c92c3737bf74d3e0708c74e
treef32f417eecf4eab1f7a780b0191f4a1b0b0a9f1d
parent88beec59cde2a56567c45768e44522f3ae396ce2
openvswitch: optimize flow compare and mask functions

Make sure the sw_flow_key structure and valid mask boundaries are always
machine word aligned. Optimize the flow compare and mask operations
using machine word size operations. This patch improves throughput on
average by 15% when CPU is the bottleneck of forwarding packets.

This patch is inspired by ideas and code from a patch submitted by Peter
Klausler titled "replace memcmp() with specialized comparator".
However, The original patch only optimizes for architectures
support unaligned machine word access. This patch optimizes for all
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <azhou@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
net/openvswitch/flow.c
net/openvswitch/flow.h