Add flowhash hash table to vppinfra

This hash table intends to provide an alternative to the widely
used bihash table in places where either:
- Hash entry timeout is required
- The hash table data does not fit in CPU cache

Although the bihash table is very fast, each lookup requires
accessing two cache lines in a serialized fashion. It works fine
when the hash table is in cache, but hits a wall when it does not.

The 'flowhash' table uses a simplified design (at the cost of a
less good bucket auto-scaling) where each access only requires
a single memory lookup (in the absence of collision). The hash
table also uses a reduced number of registers.

In practice, a VPP node implementing a stateful feature would
typically:
- prefetch buffer metadata (in-cache)
- prefetch packet header (in-cache)
- compute hash & prefetch hash bucket (possibly in RAM)
- read/write key and value from bucket

Using this hash table, it is possible to pipeline accesses in a way
that does not exhaust CPU's line field buffers, even when the
requested value is located in RAM (i.e. not in cache).

Measurements showed it was possible to scale to tens of millions
of flows (with a full 5-tuple matching and 32B value, i.e. 1
cache line per flow) with no performance degradation when
the hash table grows to the point it doesn't fit in cache anymore.

I have used this table in a couple of non-open-sourced projects,
but think it might be useful to lb, nat, and possibly other VPP
subsystems.

More information in the .h file.

Change-Id: I2b13dde0eabd868b75da1cedbfca0bf74d705102
Signed-off-by: Pierre Pfister <ppfister@cisco.com>

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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef SRC_VPPINFRA_FLOWHASH_8_8_H_
+#define SRC_VPPINFRA_FLOWHASH_8_8_H_
+
+#ifdef __included_flowhash_template_h__
+#undef __included_flowhash_template_h__
+#endif
+
+#include <vppinfra/clib.h>
+#include <vppinfra/xxhash.h>
+#include <vppinfra/crc32.h>
+
+typedef struct {
+  u64 as_u64[1];
+} flowhash_skey_8_8_t;
+
+typedef struct {
+  u64 as_u64[1];
+} flowhash_lkey_8_8_t;
+
+typedef struct {
+  u64 as_u64[1];
+} flowhash_value_8_8_t;
+
+#define FLOWHASH_TYPE _8_8
+#include <vppinfra/flowhash_template.h>
+#undef FLOWHASH_TYPE
+
+static_always_inline
+u32 flowhash_hash_8_8(flowhash_lkey_8_8_t *k)
+{
+#ifdef clib_crc32c_uses_intrinsics
+  return clib_crc32c ((u8 *) &k->as_u64[0], 8);
+#else
+  return clib_xxhash (k->as_u64[0]);
+#endif
+}
+
+static_always_inline
+u8 flowhash_cmp_key_8_8(flowhash_skey_8_8_t *a,
+                          flowhash_lkey_8_8_t *b)
+{
+  return a->as_u64[0] != b->as_u64[0];
+}
+
+static_always_inline
+void flowhash_cpy_key_8_8(flowhash_skey_8_8_t *dst,
+        	                    flowhash_lkey_8_8_t *src)
+{
+  dst->as_u64[0] = src->as_u64[0];
+}
+
+#endif /* SRC_VPPINFRA_FLOWHASH_8_8_H_ */