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| author |   Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2017-11-08 14:15:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2017-11-08 14:45:54 +0000 |
| commit | 055c52583a2794da8ba1e85a48cce3832372b12f (patch) | |
| tree | 8ceb1cb78fbb46a0f341f8ee24feb3c6b5540013 /doc/guides/eventdevs/sw.rst | |
| parent | f239aed5e674965691846e8ce3f187dd47523689 (diff) | |
New upstream version 17.11-rc3
Change-Id: I6a5baa40612fe0c20f30b5fa773a6cbbac63a685
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guides/eventdevs/sw.rst')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guides/eventdevs/sw.rst b/doc/guides/eventdevs/sw.rst index a3e66243..ec49b3b5 100644 --- a/doc/guides/eventdevs/sw.rst +++ b/doc/guides/eventdevs/sw.rst @@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ Scheduling Quanta ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The scheduling quanta sets the number of events that the device attempts to -schedule before returning to the application from the ``rte_event_schedule()`` -function. Note that is a *hint* only, and that fewer or more events may be -scheduled in a given iteration. +schedule in a single schedule call performed by the service core. Note that +is a *hint* only, and that fewer or more events may be scheduled in a given +iteration. The scheduling quanta can be set using a string argument to the vdev create call: @@ -140,10 +140,9 @@ eventdev. Distributed Scheduler ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The software eventdev is a centralized scheduler, requiring the -``rte_event_schedule()`` function to be called by a CPU core to perform the -required event distribution. This is not really a limitation but rather a -design decision. +The software eventdev is a centralized scheduler, requiring a service core to +perform the required event distribution. This is not really a limitation but +rather a design decision. The ``RTE_EVENT_DEV_CAP_DISTRIBUTED_SCHED`` flag is not set in the ``event_dev_cap`` field of the ``rte_event_dev_info`` struct for the software |