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| author |   Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> | 2017-05-16 14:51:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> | 2017-05-16 16:20:45 +0200 |
| commit | 7595afa4d30097c1177b69257118d8ad89a539be (patch) | |
| tree | 4bfeadc905c977e45e54a90c42330553b8942e4e /doc/guides/prog_guide/packet_distrib_lib.rst | |
| parent | ce3d555e43e3795b5d9507fcfc76b7a0a92fd0d6 (diff) | |
Imported Upstream version 17.05
Change-Id: Id1e419c5a214e4a18739663b91f0f9a549f1fdc6
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
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diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/packet_distrib_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/packet_distrib_lib.rst index b5bdabbf..ee2b1a66 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/packet_distrib_lib.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/packet_distrib_lib.rst @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ 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 optimized 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 -------------------------- |