l2: allocate l2fib only when needed

Currently l2 fib allocates 512MB hash table unconditionally on startup.
This patch postpones table creation up to the point where first
interface is put into l2 mode or mac entry is added.

In addition it reduces default table size to 128MB and increases number
of buckets 4 times. This default setting should be enough to keep 1M mac
entries.

Also, new startup.conf section is added which allows user to change memory
and bucket size. .i.e:

l2fib {
  table-size 512M
  num-buckets 524288
}

Type: improvement
Change-Id: I2a29209aa3545181f0087544c97a54d8157b6ec5
Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/vpp/conf/startup.conf b/src/vpp/conf/startup.conf
index 56610e2e315..12679da778c 100644
--- a/src/vpp/conf/startup.conf
+++ b/src/vpp/conf/startup.conf
@@ -189,3 +189,12 @@ cpu {
     # per-node-counters on | off, defaults to none
     # update-interval <f64-seconds>, sets the segment scrape / update interval
 # }
+
+## L2 FIB
+# l2fib {
+    ## l2fib hash table size.
+    #  table-size 512M
+
+    ## l2fib hash table number of buckets. Must be power of 2.
+    #  num-buckets 524288
+# }