Added new method get_back_end_interface_set() to speed up back-end in… (

#5731)

Added new MultiASIC util method "get_back_end_interface_set()" to speed up back-end interface check by allowing caller to cache the back-end intf into a set. This way the caller can use this set for all subsequent back-end interface check requests  instead of each time need to read from redis DB which become a scaling issue for cases such as checking for thousands of nexthop routes for filtering purpose.

src/sonic-py-common/sonic_py_common/multi_asic.py

@@ -349,6 +349,33 @@ def is_port_channel_internal(port_channel, namespace=None):
 
     return False
 
+# Allow user to get a set() of back-end interface and back-end LAG per namespace
+# default is getting it for all name spaces if no namespace is specified
+def get_back_end_interface_set(namespace=None):
+    bk_end_intf_list =[]
+    if not is_multi_asic():
+        return None
+
+    port_table = get_port_table(namespace)
+    for port, info in port_table.items():
+        if PORT_ROLE in info and info[PORT_ROLE] == INTERNAL_PORT:
+            bk_end_intf_list.append(port)
+
+    if len(bk_end_intf_list):
+        ns_list = get_namespace_list(namespace)
+        for ns in ns_list:
+            config_db = connect_config_db_for_ns(ns)
+            port_channels = config_db.get_table(PORT_CHANNEL_CFG_DB_TABLE)
+            # a back-end LAG must be configured with all of its member from back-end interfaces.
+            # mixing back-end and front-end interfaces is miss configuration and not allowed.
+            # To determine if a LAG is back-end LAG, just need to check its first member is back-end or not
+            # is sufficient. Note that a user defined LAG may have empty members so the list expansion logic
+            # need to ensure there are members before inspecting member[0].
+            bk_end_intf_list.extend([port_channel for port_channel, lag_info in port_channels.items()\
+                                if 'members' in lag_info and lag_info['members'][0] in bk_end_intf_list])
+    a = set()
+    a.update(bk_end_intf_list)
+    return a
 
 def is_bgp_session_internal(bgp_neigh_ip, namespace=None):