[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] compress/mlx5: fix level translation in xform API

Raja Zidane rzidane at nvidia.com
Thu Jul 29 16:11:08 CEST 2021


Compression Level is interpreted by each PMD differently.
However, lower numbers give faster compression
at the expense of compression ratio, while higher numbers
may give better compression ratios but are likely slower.
The level affects the block size, which affects performance,
the bigger the block, the faster the compression is.

The problem was that higher levels caused bigger blocks:
  size = min_block_size - 1 + level.

the solution is to reverse the above:
  size = max_block_size + 1 - level.

Fixes: 39a2c8715f8f ("compress/mlx5: add transformation operations")
Cc: matan at nvidia.com
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Raja Zidane <rzidane at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/compress/mlx5/mlx5_compress.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/compress/mlx5/mlx5_compress.c b/drivers/compress/mlx5/mlx5_compress.c
index 5c2b9dc859..883e720ec1 100644
--- a/drivers/compress/mlx5/mlx5_compress.c
+++ b/drivers/compress/mlx5/mlx5_compress.c
@@ -316,12 +316,19 @@ mlx5_compress_xform_create(struct rte_compressdev *dev,
 			size /= MLX5_GGA_COMP_WIN_SIZE_UNITS;
 			xfrm->gga_ctrl1 += RTE_MIN(rte_log2_u32(size),
 					 MLX5_COMP_MAX_WIN_SIZE_CONF) <<
-					   WQE_GGA_COMP_WIN_SIZE_OFFSET;
-			if (xform->compress.level == RTE_COMP_LEVEL_PMD_DEFAULT)
+						WQE_GGA_COMP_WIN_SIZE_OFFSET;
+			switch (xform->compress.level) {
+			case RTE_COMP_LEVEL_PMD_DEFAULT:
 				size = MLX5_GGA_COMP_LOG_BLOCK_SIZE_MAX;
-			else
-				size = priv->min_block_size - 1 +
-							  xform->compress.level;
+				break;
+			case RTE_COMP_LEVEL_MAX:
+				size = priv->min_block_size;
+				break;
+			default:
+				size = RTE_MAX(MLX5_GGA_COMP_LOG_BLOCK_SIZE_MAX
+					+ 1 - xform->compress.level,
+					priv->min_block_size);
+			}
 			xfrm->gga_ctrl1 += RTE_MIN(size,
 					    MLX5_GGA_COMP_LOG_BLOCK_SIZE_MAX) <<
 						 WQE_GGA_COMP_BLOCK_SIZE_OFFSET;
-- 
2.27.0



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