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Date:   Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:17:23 -0400
From:   Nick Richardson <richardsonnick@...gle.com>
To:     Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, nrrichar@...u.edu,
        Philip Romanov <promanov@...gle.com>,
        Arun Kalyanasundaram <arunkaly@...gle.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Di Zhu <zhudi21@...wei.com>, Leesoo Ahn <dev@...eel.net>,
        Ye Bin <yebin10@...wei.com>,
        Yejune Deng <yejune.deng@...il.com>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] pktgen: Add imix distribution bins

On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 at 00:32, Nicholas Richardson
<richardsonnick@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> From: Nick Richardson <richardsonnick@...gle.com>
>
> In order to represent the distribution of imix packet sizes, a
> pre-computed data structure is used. It features 100 (IMIX_PRECISION)
> "bins". Contiguous ranges of these bins represent the respective
> packet size of each imix entry. This is done to avoid the overhead of
> selecting the correct imix packet size based on the corresponding weights.
>
> Example:
> imix_weights 40,7 576,4 1500,1
> total_weight = 7 + 4 + 1 = 12
>
> pkt_size 40 occurs 7/total_weight = 58% of the time
> pkt_size 576 occurs 4/total_weight = 33% of the time
> pkt_size 1500 occurs 1/total_weight = 9% of the time
>
> We generate a random number between 0-100 and select the corresponding
> packet size based on the specified weights.
> Eg. random number = 358723895 % 100 = 65
> Selects the packet size corresponding to index:65 in the pre-computed
> imix_distribution array.
> An example of the  pre-computed array is below:
>
> The imix_distribution will look like the following:
> 0        ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> 1        ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> 2        ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> [...]    ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> 57       ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> 58       ->  1 (index of imix_entry.size == 576)
> [...]    ->  1 (index of imix_entry.size == 576)
> 90       ->  1 (index of imix_entry.size == 576)
> 91       ->  2 (index of imix_entry.size == 1500)
> [...]    ->  2 (index of imix_entry.size == 1500)
> 99       ->  2 (index of imix_entry.size == 1500)
>
> Create and use "bin" representation of the imix distribution.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Richardson <richardsonnick@...gle.com>
> ---
>  net/core/pktgen.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
> index a7e45eaccef7..ac1de15000e2 100644
> --- a/net/core/pktgen.c
> +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
> @@ -177,6 +177,7 @@
>  #define MPLS_STACK_BOTTOM htonl(0x00000100)
>  /* Max number of internet mix entries that can be specified in imix_weights. */
>  #define MAX_IMIX_ENTRIES 20
> +#define IMIX_PRECISION 100 /* Precision of IMIX distribution */
>
>  #define func_enter() pr_debug("entering %s\n", __func__);
>
> @@ -354,6 +355,8 @@ struct pktgen_dev {
>         /* IMIX */
>         unsigned int n_imix_entries;
>         struct imix_pkt imix_entries[MAX_IMIX_ENTRIES];
> +       /* Maps 0-IMIX_PRECISION range to imix_entry based on probability*/
> +       __u8 imix_distribution[IMIX_PRECISION];
>
>         /* MPLS */
>         unsigned int nr_labels; /* Depth of stack, 0 = no MPLS */
> @@ -483,6 +486,7 @@ static void pktgen_stop_all_threads(struct pktgen_net *pn);
>
>  static void pktgen_stop(struct pktgen_thread *t);
>  static void pktgen_clear_counters(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev);
> +static void fill_imix_distribution(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev);

Linux next 20210813 tag arm builds failed due to following build errors.

Regressions found on arm:

 - build/gcc-10-ixp4xx_defconfig
 - build/gcc-10-orion5x_defconfig
 - build/gcc-10-multi_v5_defconfig

net/core/pktgen.c:489:13: warning: 'fill_imix_distribution' used but
never defined
 static void fill_imix_distribution(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev);
             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ERROR: modpost: "fill_imix_distribution" [net/core/pktgen.ko] undefined!
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:150: modules-only.symvers] Error 1
make[2]: *** Deleting file 'modules-only.symvers'
make[2]: Target '__modpost' not remade because of errors.
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1918: modules] Error 2

Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@...aro.org>

Steps to reproduce:

# TuxMake is a command line tool and Python library that provides
# portable and repeatable Linux kernel builds across a variety of
# architectures, toolchains, kernel configurations, and make targets.
#
# TuxMake supports the concept of runtimes.
# See https://docs.tuxmake.org/runtimes/, for that to work it requires
# that you install podman or docker on your system.
#
# To install tuxmake on your system globally:
# sudo pip3 install -U tuxmake
#
# See https://docs.tuxmake.org/ for complete documentation.

tuxmake --runtime podman --target-arch arm --toolchain gcc-10
--kconfig orion5x_defconfig


On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 1:13 AM Naresh Kamboju
<naresh.kamboju@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 at 00:32, Nicholas Richardson
> <richardsonnick@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Nick Richardson <richardsonnick@...gle.com>
> >
> > In order to represent the distribution of imix packet sizes, a
> > pre-computed data structure is used. It features 100 (IMIX_PRECISION)
> > "bins". Contiguous ranges of these bins represent the respective
> > packet size of each imix entry. This is done to avoid the overhead of
> > selecting the correct imix packet size based on the corresponding weights.
> >
> > Example:
> > imix_weights 40,7 576,4 1500,1
> > total_weight = 7 + 4 + 1 = 12
> >
> > pkt_size 40 occurs 7/total_weight = 58% of the time
> > pkt_size 576 occurs 4/total_weight = 33% of the time
> > pkt_size 1500 occurs 1/total_weight = 9% of the time
> >
> > We generate a random number between 0-100 and select the corresponding
> > packet size based on the specified weights.
> > Eg. random number = 358723895 % 100 = 65
> > Selects the packet size corresponding to index:65 in the pre-computed
> > imix_distribution array.
> > An example of the  pre-computed array is below:
> >
> > The imix_distribution will look like the following:
> > 0        ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> > 1        ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> > 2        ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> > [...]    ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> > 57       ->  0 (index of imix_entry.size == 40)
> > 58       ->  1 (index of imix_entry.size == 576)
> > [...]    ->  1 (index of imix_entry.size == 576)
> > 90       ->  1 (index of imix_entry.size == 576)
> > 91       ->  2 (index of imix_entry.size == 1500)
> > [...]    ->  2 (index of imix_entry.size == 1500)
> > 99       ->  2 (index of imix_entry.size == 1500)
> >
> > Create and use "bin" representation of the imix distribution.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Richardson <richardsonnick@...gle.com>
> > ---
> >  net/core/pktgen.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
> > index a7e45eaccef7..ac1de15000e2 100644
> > --- a/net/core/pktgen.c
> > +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
> > @@ -177,6 +177,7 @@
> >  #define MPLS_STACK_BOTTOM htonl(0x00000100)
> >  /* Max number of internet mix entries that can be specified in imix_weights. */
> >  #define MAX_IMIX_ENTRIES 20
> > +#define IMIX_PRECISION 100 /* Precision of IMIX distribution */
> >
> >  #define func_enter() pr_debug("entering %s\n", __func__);
> >
> > @@ -354,6 +355,8 @@ struct pktgen_dev {
> >         /* IMIX */
> >         unsigned int n_imix_entries;
> >         struct imix_pkt imix_entries[MAX_IMIX_ENTRIES];
> > +       /* Maps 0-IMIX_PRECISION range to imix_entry based on probability*/
> > +       __u8 imix_distribution[IMIX_PRECISION];
> >
> >         /* MPLS */
> >         unsigned int nr_labels; /* Depth of stack, 0 = no MPLS */
> > @@ -483,6 +486,7 @@ static void pktgen_stop_all_threads(struct pktgen_net *pn);
> >
> >  static void pktgen_stop(struct pktgen_thread *t);
> >  static void pktgen_clear_counters(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev);
> > +static void fill_imix_distribution(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev);
>
> Linux next 20210813 tag arm builds failed due to following build errors.
>
> Regressions found on arm:
>
>  - build/gcc-10-ixp4xx_defconfig
>  - build/gcc-10-orion5x_defconfig
>  - build/gcc-10-multi_v5_defconfig
>
> net/core/pktgen.c:489:13: warning: 'fill_imix_distribution' used but
> never defined
>  static void fill_imix_distribution(struct pktgen_dev *pkt_dev);
>              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ERROR: modpost: "fill_imix_distribution" [net/core/pktgen.ko] undefined!
> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:150: modules-only.symvers] Error 1
> make[2]: *** Deleting file 'modules-only.symvers'
> make[2]: Target '__modpost' not remade because of errors.
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:1918: modules] Error 2
>
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@...aro.org>
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> # TuxMake is a command line tool and Python library that provides
> # portable and repeatable Linux kernel builds across a variety of
> # architectures, toolchains, kernel configurations, and make targets.
> #
> # TuxMake supports the concept of runtimes.
> # See https://docs.tuxmake.org/runtimes/, for that to work it requires
> # that you install podman or docker on your system.
> #
> # To install tuxmake on your system globally:
> # sudo pip3 install -U tuxmake
> #
> # See https://docs.tuxmake.org/ for complete documentation.
>
> tuxmake --runtime podman --target-arch arm --toolchain gcc-10
> --kconfig orion5x_defconfig
>
> --
> Linaro LKFT
> https://lkft.linaro.org

Thanks for the reply Naresh. Do you have any ideas on how to resolve
this error? Pktgen already defines a couple of function prototypes
before they are declared and that seems to be the cause of this error
message.

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