eal: register non-EAL threads as lcores

[dpdk.git] / lib / librte_eal / common / eal_private.h

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_private.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_private.h
index a77ac7a..ef0c3df 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_private.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_private.h
@@ -396,6 +396,24 @@ uint64_t get_tsc_freq(void);
  */
 uint64_t get_tsc_freq_arch(void);
 
+/**
+ * Allocate a free lcore to associate to a non-EAL thread.
+ *
+ * @return
+ *   - the id of a lcore with role ROLE_NON_EAL on success.
+ *   - RTE_MAX_LCORE if none was available.
+ */
+unsigned int eal_lcore_non_eal_allocate(void);
+
+/**
+ * Release the lcore used by a non-EAL thread.
+ * Counterpart of eal_lcore_non_eal_allocate().
+ *
+ * @param lcore_id
+ *   The lcore with role ROLE_NON_EAL to release.
+ */
+void eal_lcore_non_eal_release(unsigned int lcore_id);
+
 /**
  * Prepare physical memory mapping
  * i.e. hugepages on Linux and
@@ -699,6 +717,16 @@ eal_get_internal_configuration(void);
 rte_usage_hook_t
 eal_get_application_usage_hook(void);
 
+/**
+ * Mark primary process as not supporting multi-process.
+ */
+bool __rte_mp_disable(void);
+
+/**
+ * Instruct primary process that a secondary process wants to attach.
+ */
+bool __rte_mp_enable(void);
+
 /**
  * Init per-lcore info in current thread.
  *