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authorLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2017-11-08 14:15:11 +0000
committerLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2017-11-08 14:45:54 +0000
commit055c52583a2794da8ba1e85a48cce3832372b12f (patch)
tree8ceb1cb78fbb46a0f341f8ee24feb3c6b5540013 /doc/guides/eventdevs
parentf239aed5e674965691846e8ce3f187dd47523689 (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')
-rw-r--r--doc/guides/eventdevs/octeontx.rst5
-rw-r--r--doc/guides/eventdevs/sw.rst13
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guides/eventdevs/octeontx.rst b/doc/guides/eventdevs/octeontx.rst
index b43d5155..7e601a07 100644
--- a/doc/guides/eventdevs/octeontx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/eventdevs/octeontx.rst
@@ -149,3 +149,8 @@ Burst mode support
Burst mode is not supported. Dequeue and Enqueue functions accepts only single
event at a time.
+Rx adapter support
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+When eth_octeontx is used as Rx adapter event schedule type
+``RTE_SCHED_TYPE_PARALLEL`` is not supported.
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