net/mlx5: Only create VEPA flow table when in VEPA mode
Currently, when VFs are created, two flow tables are added for the eswitch:
the "fdb" table, which contains rules for each VF and the "vepa_fdb" table.
In the default VEB mode, the vepa_fdb table is empty. When switching to
VEPA mode, flow steering rules are added to vepa_fdb. Even though the
vepa_fdb table is empty in VEB mode, its presence adds some cost to packet
processing. In some workloads, this leads to drops which are reported by
the rx_discards_phy ethtool counter.
In order to improve performance, only create vepa_fdb when in VEPA mode.
Tests were done on a ConnectX-6 Lx adapter forwarding 64B packets between
both ports using dpdk-testpmd. Numbers are Rx-pps for each port, as
reported by testpmd.
Without changes:
traffic to unknown mac
testpmd on PF
numvfs=0,0
35257998,
35264499
numvfs=1,1
24590124,
24590888
testpmd on VF with numvfs=1,1
20434338,
20434887
traffic to VF mac
testpmd on VF with numvfs=1,1
30341014,
30340749
With changes:
traffic to unknown mac
testpmd on PF
numvfs=0,0
35404361,
35383378
numvfs=1,1
29801247,
29790757
testpmd on VF with numvfs=1,1
24310435,
24309084
traffic to VF mac
testpmd on VF with numvfs=1,1
34811436,
34781706
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>