/*
* A packet can be identified by hardware as different flow types. Different
- * NIC hardwares may support different flow types.
+ * NIC hardware may support different flow types.
* Basically, the NIC hardware identifies the flow type as deep protocol as
* possible, and exclusively. For example, if a packet is identified as
* 'RTE_ETH_FLOW_NONFRAG_IPV4_TCP', it will not be any of other flow types,
/*
* The RSS offload types are defined based on flow types.
- * Different NIC hardwares may support different RSS offload
+ * Different NIC hardware may support different RSS offload
* types. The supported flow types or RSS offload types can be queried by
* rte_eth_dev_info_get().
*/
* @return
* - 0: Success, receive queue correctly set up.
* - -EIO: if device is removed.
- * - -EINVAL: The size of network buffers which can be allocated from the
- * memory pool does not fit the various buffer sizes allowed by the
- * device controller.
+ * - -EINVAL: The memory pool pointer is null or the size of network buffers
+ * which can be allocated from this memory pool does not fit the various
+ * buffer sizes allowed by the device controller.
* - -ENOMEM: Unable to allocate the receive ring descriptors or to
* allocate network memory buffers from the memory pool when
* initializing receive descriptors.
* A pointer to an ids array passed by application. This tells which
* statistics values function should retrieve. This parameter
* can be set to NULL if size is 0. In this case function will retrieve
- * all avalible statistics.
+ * all available statistics.
* @param values
* A pointer to a table to be filled with device statistics values.
* @param size
* A pointer to a structure of type *ether_addr* to be filled with
* the Ethernet address of the Ethernet device.
*/
-void rte_eth_macaddr_get(uint16_t port_id, struct ether_addr *mac_addr);
+void rte_eth_macaddr_get(uint16_t port_id, struct rte_ether_addr *mac_addr);
/**
* Retrieve the contextual information of an Ethernet device.
* .nb_max = UINT16_MAX,
* .nb_min = 0,
* .nb_align = 1,
+ * .nb_seg_max = UINT16_MAX,
+ * .nb_mtu_seg_max = UINT16_MAX,
* };
*
* device = dev->device
- * min_mtu = ETHER_MIN_MTU
+ * min_mtu = RTE_ETHER_MIN_MTU
* max_mtu = UINT16_MAX
*
* The following fields will be populated if support for dev_infos_get()
/**
* Request the driver to free mbufs currently cached by the driver. The
* driver will only free the mbuf if it is no longer in use. It is the
- * application's responsibity to ensure rte_eth_tx_buffer_flush(..) is
+ * application's responsibility to ensure rte_eth_tx_buffer_flush(..) is
* called if needed.
*
* @param port_id
* - (-ENOSPC) if no more MAC addresses can be added.
* - (-EINVAL) if MAC address is invalid.
*/
-int rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_add(uint16_t port_id, struct ether_addr *mac_addr,
+int rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_add(uint16_t port_id, struct rte_ether_addr *mac_addr,
uint32_t pool);
/**
* - (-ENODEV) if *port* invalid.
* - (-EADDRINUSE) if attempting to remove the default MAC address
*/
-int rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_remove(uint16_t port_id, struct ether_addr *mac_addr);
+int rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_remove(uint16_t port_id,
+ struct rte_ether_addr *mac_addr);
/**
* Set the default MAC address.
* - (-EINVAL) if MAC address is invalid.
*/
int rte_eth_dev_default_mac_addr_set(uint16_t port_id,
- struct ether_addr *mac_addr);
+ struct rte_ether_addr *mac_addr);
/**
* Update Redirection Table(RETA) of Receive Side Scaling of Ethernet device.
* - (-EIO) if device is removed.
* - (-EINVAL) if bad parameter.
*/
-int rte_eth_dev_uc_hash_table_set(uint16_t port_id, struct ether_addr *addr,
+int rte_eth_dev_uc_hash_table_set(uint16_t port_id, struct rte_ether_addr *addr,
uint8_t on);
/**
* - (-ENOSPC) if *port_id* has not enough multicast filtering resources.
*/
int rte_eth_dev_set_mc_addr_list(uint16_t port_id,
- struct ether_addr *mc_addr_set,
+ struct rte_ether_addr *mc_addr_set,
uint32_t nb_mc_addr);
/**
*/
int rte_eth_timesync_write_time(uint16_t port_id, const struct timespec *time);
+/**
+ * @warning
+ * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice.
+ *
+ * Read the current clock counter of an Ethernet device
+ *
+ * This returns the current raw clock value of an Ethernet device. It is
+ * a raw amount of ticks, with no given time reference.
+ * The value returned here is from the same clock than the one
+ * filling timestamp field of Rx packets when using hardware timestamp
+ * offload. Therefore it can be used to compute a precise conversion of
+ * the device clock to the real time.
+ *
+ * E.g, a simple heuristic to derivate the frequency would be:
+ * uint64_t start, end;
+ * rte_eth_read_clock(port, start);
+ * rte_delay_ms(100);
+ * rte_eth_read_clock(port, end);
+ * double freq = (end - start) * 10;
+ *
+ * Compute a common reference with:
+ * uint64_t base_time_sec = current_time();
+ * uint64_t base_clock;
+ * rte_eth_read_clock(port, base_clock);
+ *
+ * Then, convert the raw mbuf timestamp with:
+ * base_time_sec + (double)(mbuf->timestamp - base_clock) / freq;
+ *
+ * This simple example will not provide a very good accuracy. One must
+ * at least measure multiple times the frequency and do a regression.
+ * To avoid deviation from the system time, the common reference can
+ * be repeated from time to time. The integer division can also be
+ * converted by a multiplication and a shift for better performance.
+ *
+ * @param port_id
+ * The port identifier of the Ethernet device.
+ * @param clock
+ * Pointer to the uint64_t that holds the raw clock value.
+ *
+ * @return
+ * - 0: Success.
+ * - -ENODEV: The port ID is invalid.
+ * - -ENOTSUP: The function is not supported by the Ethernet driver.
+ */
+int __rte_experimental
+rte_eth_read_clock(uint16_t port_id, uint64_t *clock);
+
/**
* Config l2 tunnel ether type of an Ethernet device for filtering specific
* tunnel packets by ether type.
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