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2017-10-06tuntap: Introduce per thread structure to suport multi-threadsSteven1-31/+43
https://gerrit.fd.io/r/#/c/8551/ decoupled the global variable, namely tm->iovecs from TX and RX. However, to support multi-threads, we have to eliminate the use of this global variable with per thread variable. I notice that rx_buffers must also be per thread variable. So, we introduce per thread struct to contain rx_buffers and iovecs. Each thread will find the per thread struct with thread_index. Change-Id: I61abf2fdace8d722525a382ac72f0d04a173b9ce Signed-off-by: Steven <sluong@cisco.com>
2017-09-28tun/tap: Bad packets sent to kernel via tun/tap interfaceSteven1-11/+15
It was observed that under heavy traffic, VPP accidentally sent traffic with the wrong source and destination to the tun/tap interface. Traffic appears to be sent to the wrong direction. This problem is only seen when worker thread is configured. When worker thread is used, TX and RX may reside in different core. Yet both TX and RX threads are sharing the same global variable, namely iovecs without any mutex or memory barrier protection. This creates a race condition when heavy traffic is blasted to VPP, like 1000 pps. We could create a mutex or memory barrier to ensure atomic memory access. But why bother? It is a lot cheaper to just decouple the iovecs such that TX and RX have their own iovecs. Change-Id: I86a5a19bd8de54d54f32e1f0845bae6a81bbf686 Signed-off-by: Steven <sluong@cisco.com>
2017-09-09move unix_file_* code to vppinfraDamjan Marion1-5/+5
This will allow us to use this code in client libraries without vlib. Change-Id: I8557b752496841ba588aa36b6082cbe2cd1867fe Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>
2017-08-11the automatic addition of IP address to the magic TAP interface should only ↵Neale Ranns1-0/+21
happen for one table Change-Id: I99d3e9227c33ee42b90e4842080960fcc6c03913 Signed-off-by: Neale Ranns <nranns@cisco.com>
2017-04-06Use thread local storage for thread indexDamjan Marion1-2/+2
This patch deprecates stack-based thread identification, Also removes requirement that thread stacks are adjacent. Finally, possibly annoying for some folks, it renames all occurences of cpu_index and cpu_number with thread index. Using word "cpu" is misleading here as thread can be migrated ti different CPU, and also it is not related to linux cpu index. Change-Id: I68cdaf661e701d2336fc953dcb9978d10a70f7c1 Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>
2017-03-06features: take device-input buffer advance value directlyDamjan Marion1-1/+1
Change-Id: Ifac7d9134d03d79164ce6f06ae9413279bbaadb3 Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>
2016-12-28Reorganize source tree to use single autotools instanceDamjan Marion1-0/+1000
Change-Id: I7b51f88292e057c6443b12224486f2d0c9f8ae23 Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>