ethdev: add pre-defined meter policy API

Currently, the flow meter policy does not support multiple actions
per color; also the allowed action types per color are very limited.
In addition, the poli

ethdev: add pre-defined meter policy API

Currently, the flow meter policy does not support multiple actions
per color; also the allowed action types per color are very limited.
In addition, the policy cannot be pre-defined.

Due to the growing in flow actions offload abilities there is a potential
for the user to use variety of actions per color differently.
This new meter policy API comes to allow this potential in the most ethdev
common way using rte_flow action definition.
A list of rte_flow actions will be provided by the user per color
in order to create a meter policy.
In addition, the API forces to pre-define the policy before
the meters creation in order to allow sharing of single policy
with multiple meters efficiently.

meter_policy_id is added into struct rte_mtr_params.
So that it can get the policy during the meters creation.

Allow coloring the packet using a new rte_flow_action_color
as could be done by the old policy API.

Add two common policy template as macros in the head file.

The next API function were added:
- rte_mtr_meter_policy_add
- rte_mtr_meter_policy_delete
- rte_mtr_meter_policy_update
- rte_mtr_meter_policy_validate
The next struct was changed:
- rte_mtr_params
- rte_mtr_capabilities
The next API was deleted:
- rte_mtr_policer_actions_update

To support this API the following app were changed:
app/test-flow-perf: clean meter policer
app/testpmd: clean meter policer

To support this API the following drivers were changed:
net/softnic: support meter policy API
1. Cleans meter rte_mtr_policer_action.
2. Supports policy API to get color action as policer action did.
The color action will be mapped into rte_table_action_policer.

net/mlx5: clean meter creation management
Cleans and breaks part of the current meter management
in order to allow better design with policy API.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Haifei Luo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiawei Wang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ray Kinsella <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jasvinder Singh <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <[email protected]>

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lib: remove librte_ prefix from directory names

There is no reason for the DPDK libraries to all have 'librte_' prefix on
the directory names. This prefix makes the directory names longer and also
m

lib: remove librte_ prefix from directory names

There is no reason for the DPDK libraries to all have 'librte_' prefix on
the directory names. This prefix makes the directory names longer and also
makes it awkward to add features referring to individual libraries in the
build - should the lib names be specified with or without the prefix.
Therefore, we can just remove the library prefix and use the library's
unique name as the directory name, i.e. 'eal' rather than 'librte_eal'

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <[email protected]>

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