svm: refactor fifo

Type: refactor

Switch from a wrapped byte space to a "continuous" one wherein fifo
chunks are appended to the fifo as more data is enqueued and chunks are
removed as data is dequeued.

The fifo is still subject to a maximum size, i.e., maximum number of
bytes that can be enqueued, so the max number of chunks associated to
the fifo is also constrained.

When enqueueing data, which must fit within the available free space, if
not enough "supporting" chunk  memory is available, the fifo asks the
fifo segment for enough chunk memory to ensure that the write can
succeed. To avoid allocating large amounts of small chunks due to small
writes, if possible, the size of the chunks requested is lower capped by
min_alloc.

When dequeuing data, all the chunks that have been completely drained,
i.e., head moved beyond the chunks’ end bytes, are unlinked from the
fifo and returned to the fifo segment. The one exception to this is the
last chunk which is never unlinked.

Change-Id: I98c1dbd9135fb79650365c7e40c29238b96cd4ee
Signed-off-by: Florin Coras <fcoras@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/vnet/session/application_local.c b/src/vnet/session/application_local.c
index 25fb39e094b..cc02026e3bb 100644
--- a/src/vnet/session/application_local.c
+++ b/src/vnet/session/application_local.c
@@ -180,7 +180,11 @@ ct_init_local_session (app_worker_t * client_wrk, app_worker_t * server_wrk,
   props = application_segment_manager_properties (server);
   round_rx_fifo_sz = 1 << max_log2 (props->rx_fifo_size);
   round_tx_fifo_sz = 1 << max_log2 (props->tx_fifo_size);
-  seg_size = round_rx_fifo_sz + round_tx_fifo_sz + margin;
+  /* Increase size because of inefficient chunk allocations. Depending on
+   * how data is consumed, it may happen that more chunks than needed are
+   * allocated.
+   * TODO should remove once allocations are done more efficiently */
+  seg_size = 4 * (round_rx_fifo_sz + round_tx_fifo_sz + margin);
 
   sm = app_worker_get_listen_segment_manager (server_wrk, ll);
   seg_index = segment_manager_add_segment (sm, seg_size);