dpdk-fm10k/lib/librte_kni/rte_kni.h
Intel f2e7592c47 kni: fix multi-process support
Signed-off-by: Intel
2013-09-17 14:16:08 +02:00

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#ifndef _RTE_KNI_H_
#define _RTE_KNI_H_
/**
* @file
* RTE KNI
*
* The KNI library provides the ability to create and destroy kernel NIC
* interfaces that may be used by the RTE application to receive/transmit
* packets from/to Linux kernel net interfaces.
*
* This library provide two APIs to burst receive packets from KNI interfaces,
* and burst transmit packets to KNI interfaces.
*/
#include <rte_mbuf.h>
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
struct rte_kni;
/**
* Structure which has the function pointers for KNI interface.
*/
struct rte_kni_ops {
/* Pointer to function of changing MTU */
int (*change_mtu)(uint8_t port_id, unsigned new_mtu);
/* Pointer to function of configuring network interface */
int (*config_network_if)(uint8_t port_id, uint8_t if_up);
};
/**
* Create kni interface according to the port id. It will create a paired KNI
* interface in the kernel space for each NIC port. The KNI interface created
* in the kernel space is the net interface the traditional Linux application
* talking to.
*
* @param port_id
* The port id.
* @param pktmbuf_pool
* The mempool for allocting mbufs for packets.
* @param mbuf_size
* The mbuf size to store a packet.
*
* @return
* - The pointer to the context of a kni interface.
* - NULL indicate error.
*/
extern struct rte_kni *rte_kni_create(uint8_t port_id, unsigned mbuf_size,
struct rte_mempool *pktmbuf_pool, struct rte_kni_ops *ops);
/**
* Release kni interface according to the context. It will also release the
* paired KNI interface in kernel space. All processing on the specific kni
* context need to be stopped before calling this interface.
*
* @param kni
* The pointer to the context of an existant kni interface.
*
* @return
* - 0 indicates success.
* - negative value indicates failure.
*/
extern int rte_kni_release(struct rte_kni *kni);
/**
* It is used to handle the request mbufs sent from kernel space.
* Then analyzes it and calls the specific actions for the specific requests.
* Finally constructs the response mbuf and puts it back to the resp_q.
*
* @param kni
* The pointer to the context of an existant kni interface.
*
* @return
* - 0
* - negative value indicates failure.
*/
extern int rte_kni_handle_request(struct rte_kni *kni);
/**
* Retrieve a burst of packets from a kni interface. The retrieved packets are
* stored in rte_mbuf structures whose pointers are supplied in the array of
* mbufs, and the maximum number is indicated by num. It handles the freeing of
* the mbufs in the free queue of kni interface.
*
* @param kni
* The kni interface context.
* @param mbufs
* The array to store the pointers of mbufs.
* @param num
* The maximum number per burst.
*
* @return
* The actual number of packets retrieved.
*/
extern unsigned rte_kni_rx_burst(struct rte_kni *kni,
struct rte_mbuf **mbufs, unsigned num);
/**
* Send a burst of packets to a kni interface. The packets to be sent out are
* stored in rte_mbuf structures whose pointers are supplied in the array of
* mbufs, and the maximum number is indicated by num. It handles allocating
* the mbufs for kni interface alloc queue.
*
* @param kni
* The kni interface context.
* @param mbufs
* The array to store the pointers of mbufs.
* @param num
* The maximum number per burst.
*
* @return
* The actual number of packets sent.
*/
extern unsigned rte_kni_tx_burst(struct rte_kni *kni,
struct rte_mbuf **mbufs, unsigned num);
/**
* Get the port id from kni interface.
*
* @param kni
* The kni interface context.
*
* @return
* On success: The port id.
* On failure: ~0x0
*/
extern uint8_t rte_kni_get_port_id(struct rte_kni *kni);
/**
* Get kni context information of the port.
*
* @port_id
* the port id.
*
* @return
* On success: Pointer to kni interface.
* On failure: NULL
*/
extern struct rte_kni * rte_kni_info_get(uint8_t port_id);
/**
* Register kni request handling for a specified port,and it can
* be called by master process or slave process.
*
* @param kni
* pointer to struct rte_kni.
* @param ops
* ponter to struct rte_kni_ops.
*
* @return
* On success: 0
* On failure: -1
*/
extern int rte_kni_register_handlers(struct rte_kni *kni,
struct rte_kni_ops *ops);
/**
* Unregister kni request handling for a specified port.
*
* @param kni
* pointer to struct rte_kni.
*
* @return
* On success: 0
* On failure: -1
*/
extern int rte_kni_unregister_handlers(struct rte_kni *kni);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif /* _RTE_KNI_H_ */