summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_service_component.h
blob: 7a946a1e44663c8eb23bee8935f3030a6673d2a6 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
/*
 *   BSD LICENSE
 *
 *   Copyright(c) 2017 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
 *
 *   Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 *   modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 *   are met:
 *
 *     * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
 *       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 *     * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
 *       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
 *       the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
 *       distribution.
 *     * Neither the name of Intel Corporation nor the names of its
 *       contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
 *       from this software without specific prior written permission.
 *
 *   THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
 *   "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 *   LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
 *   A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
 *   OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
 *   SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 *   LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
 *   DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
 *   THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
 *   (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
 *   OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 */

#ifndef _RTE_SERVICE_PRIVATE_H_
#define _RTE_SERVICE_PRIVATE_H_

/* This file specifies the internal service specification.
 * Include this file if you are writing a component that requires CPU cycles to
 * operate, and you wish to run the component using service cores
 */

#include <rte_service.h>

/**
 * @warning
 * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
 *
 * Signature of callback function to run a service.
 */
typedef int32_t (*rte_service_func)(void *args);

/**
 * @warning
 * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
 *
 * The specification of a service.
 *
 * This struct contains metadata about the service itself, the callback
 * function to run one iteration of the service, a userdata pointer, flags etc.
 */
struct rte_service_spec {
	/** The name of the service. This should be used by the application to
	 * understand what purpose this service provides.
	 */
	char name[RTE_SERVICE_NAME_MAX];
	/** The callback to invoke to run one iteration of the service. */
	rte_service_func callback;
	/** The userdata pointer provided to the service callback. */
	void *callback_userdata;
	/** Flags to indicate the capabilities of this service. See defines in
	 * the public header file for values of RTE_SERVICE_CAP_*
	 */
	uint32_t capabilities;
	/** NUMA socket ID that this service is affinitized to */
	int socket_id;
};

/**
 * @warning
 * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
 *
 * Register a new service.
 *
 * A service represents a component that the requires CPU time periodically to
 * achieve its purpose.
 *
 * For example the eventdev SW PMD requires CPU cycles to perform its
 * scheduling. This can be achieved by registering it as a service, and the
 * application can then assign CPU resources to it using
 * *rte_service_set_coremask*.
 *
 * @param spec The specification of the service to register
 * @retval 0 Successfully registered the service.
 *         -EINVAL Attempted to register an invalid service (eg, no callback
 *         set)
 */
int32_t rte_service_register(const struct rte_service_spec *spec);

/**
 * @warning
 * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
 *
 * Unregister a service.
 *
 * The service being removed must be stopped before calling this function.
 *
 * @retval 0 The service was successfully unregistered.
 * @retval -EBUSY The service is currently running, stop the service before
 *          calling unregister. No action has been taken.
 */
int32_t rte_service_unregister(struct rte_service_spec *service);

/**
 * @warning
 * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
 *
 * Private function to allow EAL to initialized default mappings.
 *
 * This function iterates all the services, and maps then to the available
 * cores. Based on the capabilities of the services, they are set to run on the
 * available cores in a round-robin manner.
 *
 * @retval 0 Success
 * @retval -ENOTSUP No service lcores in use
 * @retval -EINVAL Error while iterating over services
 * @retval -ENODEV Error in enabling service lcore on a service
 * @retval -ENOEXEC Error when starting services
 */
int32_t rte_service_start_with_defaults(void);

/**
 * @warning
 * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
 *
 * Initialize the service library.
 *
 * In order to use the service library, it must be initialized. EAL initializes
 * the library at startup.
 *
 * @retval 0 Success
 * @retval -EALREADY Service library is already initialized
 */
int32_t rte_service_init(void);

#endif /* _RTE_SERVICE_PRIVATE_H_ */