vfio: export functions even when disabled

[dpdk.git] / lib / librte_eal / common / include / rte_lcore.h

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_lcore.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_lcore.h
index d84bcff..7312975 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_lcore.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_lcore.h
@@ -57,7 +57,14 @@ RTE_DECLARE_PER_LCORE(unsigned, _lcore_id);  /**< Per thread "lcore id". */
 RTE_DECLARE_PER_LCORE(rte_cpuset_t, _cpuset); /**< Per thread "cpuset". */
 
 /**
- * Return the ID of the execution unit we are running on.
+ * Return the Application thread ID of the execution unit.
+ *
+ * Note: in most cases the lcore id returned here will also correspond
+ *   to the processor id of the CPU on which the thread is pinned, this
+ *   will not be the case if the user has explicitly changed the thread to
+ *   core affinities using --lcores EAL argument e.g. --lcores '(0-3)@10'
+ *   to run threads with lcore IDs 0, 1, 2 and 3 on physical core 10..
+ *
  * @return
  *  Logical core ID (in EAL thread) or LCORE_ID_ANY (in non-EAL thread)
  */
@@ -94,7 +101,12 @@ rte_lcore_count(void)
 
 /**
  * Return the index of the lcore starting from zero.
- * The order is physical or given by command line (-l option).
+ *
+ * When option -c or -l is given, the index corresponds
+ * to the order in the list.
+ * For example:
+ * -c 0x30, lcore 4 has index 0, and 5 has index 1.
+ * -l 22,18 lcore 22 has index 0, and 18 has index 1.
  *
  * @param lcore_id
  *   The targeted lcore, or -1 for the current one.
@@ -119,6 +131,36 @@ rte_lcore_index(int lcore_id)
  */
 unsigned rte_socket_id(void);
 
+/**
+ * Return number of physical sockets detected on the system.
+ *
+ * Note that number of nodes may not be correspondent to their physical id's:
+ * for example, a system may report two socket id's, but the actual socket id's
+ * may be 0 and 8.
+ *
+ * @return
+ *   the number of physical sockets as recognized by EAL
+ */
+unsigned int __rte_experimental
+rte_socket_count(void);
+
+/**
+ * Return socket id with a particular index.
+ *
+ * This will return socket id at a particular position in list of all detected
+ * physical socket id's. For example, on a machine with sockets [0, 8], passing
+ * 1 as a parameter will return 8.
+ *
+ * @param idx
+ *   index of physical socket id to return
+ *
+ * @return
+ *   - physical socket id as recognized by EAL
+ *   - -1 on error, with errno set to EINVAL
+ */
+int __rte_experimental
+rte_socket_id_by_idx(unsigned int idx);
+
 /**
  * Get the ID of the physical socket of the specified lcore
  *