From patchwork Tue Feb 21 03:17:52 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Hunt, David" X-Patchwork-Id: 20639 X-Patchwork-Delegate: thomas@monjalon.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B6F1F972; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 11:18:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443A3BD2A for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 11:17:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from fmsmga004.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.48]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 21 Feb 2017 02:17:34 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.35,189,1484035200"; d="scan'208";a="227857143" Received: from silpixa00397515.ir.intel.com (HELO silpixa00397515.ger.corp.intel.com) ([10.237.223.14]) by fmsmga004.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Feb 2017 02:17:33 -0800 From: David Hunt To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: bruce.richardson@intel.com, David Hunt Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 03:17:52 +0000 Message-Id: <1487647073-129064-17-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1487647073-129064-1-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> References: <1485163480-156507-2-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> <1487647073-129064-1-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 16/17] doc: distributor library changes for new burst api X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Signed-off-by: David Hunt Acked-by: John McNamara --- doc/guides/prog_guide/packet_distrib_lib.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/packet_distrib_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/packet_distrib_lib.rst index b5bdabb..c070eaa 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/packet_distrib_lib.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/packet_distrib_lib.rst @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ The model of operation is shown in the diagram below. Packet Distributor mode of operation +There are two modes of operation of the API in the distributor Library, one which sends one packet at a time +to workers using 32-bits for flow_id, and an optiomised mode which sends bursts of up to 8 packets at a time +to workers, using 15 bits of flow_id. The mode is selected by the type field in the rte_distributor_create function. Distributor Core Operation --------------------------