From patchwork Mon Mar 6 09:10:32 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Hunt, David" X-Patchwork-Id: 21499 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 AD082FA32; Mon, 6 Mar 2017 17:10:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE3869C3 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2017 17:10:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 06 Mar 2017 08:10:07 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.35,254,1484035200"; d="scan'208";a="72187189" Received: from silpixa00397515.ir.intel.com (HELO silpixa00397515.ger.corp.intel.com) ([10.237.223.14]) by orsmga005.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 06 Mar 2017 08:10:06 -0800 From: David Hunt To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: bruce.richardson@intel.com, David Hunt Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 09:10:32 +0000 Message-Id: <1488791433-186137-18-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1488791433-186137-1-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> References: <1488354455-142764-2-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> <1488791433-186137-1-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 17/18] 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..e0adcaa 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 --------------------------