ethdev: add packet type range function

[dpdk.git] / lib / librte_ethdev / rte_ethdev.h

diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
index 44d77b3..a787281 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
+++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
@@ -2604,6 +2604,42 @@ int rte_eth_dev_fw_version_get(uint16_t port_id,
  */
 int rte_eth_dev_get_supported_ptypes(uint16_t port_id, uint32_t ptype_mask,
                                     uint32_t *ptypes, int num);
+/**
+ * @warning
+ * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice.
+ *
+ * Inform Ethernet device about reduced range of packet types to handle.
+ *
+ * Application can use this function to set only specific ptypes that it's
+ * interested. This information can be used by the PMD to optimize Rx path.
+ *
+ * The function accepts an array `set_ptypes` allocated by the caller to
+ * store the packet types set by the driver, the last element of the array
+ * is set to RTE_PTYPE_UNKNOWN. The size of the `set_ptype` array should be
+ * `rte_eth_dev_get_supported_ptypes() + 1` else it might only be filled
+ * partially.
+ *
+ * @param port_id
+ *   The port identifier of the Ethernet device.
+ * @param ptype_mask
+ *   The ptype family that application is interested in should be bitwise OR of
+ *   RTE_PTYPE_*_MASK or 0.
+ * @param set_ptypes
+ *   An array pointer to store set packet types, allocated by caller. The
+ *   function marks the end of array with RTE_PTYPE_UNKNOWN.
+ * @param num
+ *   Size of the array pointed by param ptypes.
+ *   Should be rte_eth_dev_get_supported_ptypes() + 1 to accommodate the
+ *   set ptypes.
+ * @return
+ *   - (0) if Success.
+ *   - (-ENODEV) if *port_id* invalid.
+ *   - (-EINVAL) if *ptype_mask* is invalid (or) set_ptypes is NULL and
+ *     num > 0.
+ */
+__rte_experimental
+int rte_eth_dev_set_ptypes(uint16_t port_id, uint32_t ptype_mask,
+                          uint32_t *set_ptypes, unsigned int num);
 
 /**
  * Retrieve the MTU of an Ethernet device.