vlib: address vlib_error_t scaling issuestable/1901

Encoding the vpp node index into the vlib_error_t as a 10-bit quantity
limits us to 1K graph nodes. Unfortunately, a few nodes need 6 bit
per-node error codes. Only a very few nodes have so many counters.

It turns out that there are about 2K total error counters in the system,
which is (approximately) the maximum error heap index.

The current (index,code) encoding limits the number of interfaces to
around 250, since each interface has two associated graph nodes and we
have about 500 "normal, interior" graph node

This patch adds an error-index to node-index map, so we can store
error heap indices directly in the vlib_buffer_t.

Type: refactor

Signed-off-by: Steven Luong <sluong@cisco.com>
Change-Id: Ic2e91a5b344c9df3b98b264cacda246e06092a94

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/src/vlib/error.h b/src/vlib/error.h
index 58352519be2..0da3a18d85d 100644
--- a/src/vlib/error.h
+++ b/src/vlib/error.h
@@ -40,38 +40,8 @@
 #ifndef included_vlib_error_h
 #define included_vlib_error_h
 
-/* Combined 16 bit node & 16 bit code as 32 bit number. */
 typedef u16 vlib_error_t;
 
-always_inline u32
-vlib_error_get_node (vlib_error_t e)
-{
-  return e >> 6;
-}
-
-always_inline u32
-vlib_error_get_code (vlib_error_t e)
-{
-  return e & 0x3f;
-}
-
-always_inline vlib_error_t
-vlib_error_set (u32 node_index, u32 code)
-{
-  ASSERT (node_index < (1 << 10));
-  ASSERT (code < (1 << 6));
-  return (node_index << 6) | code;
-}
-
-always_inline vlib_error_t
-vlib_error_set_code (vlib_error_t e, u32 code)
-{
-  ASSERT (vlib_error_get_code (e) == 0);
-  ASSERT (code < (1 << 6));
-  e |= code;
-  return e;
-}
-
 typedef struct
 {
   /* Error counters. */