eventdev: clarify the worker thread workflow
authorJerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Thu, 18 May 2017 11:10:41 +0000 (16:40 +0530)
committerJerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 13:33:22 +0000 (15:33 +0200)
If the RTE_EVENT_DEV_CAP_DISTRIBUTED_SCHED capability flag
is not set indicates the device is centralized and thus needs
a dedicated scheduling thread that repeatedly calls
rte_event_schedule().

Update the worker thread code snippet to match
the description.

Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h

index 9428433..a248fe9 100644 (file)
  * operation. Instead, Event drivers export Poll-Mode enqueue and dequeue
  * functions to applications.
  *
- * An event driven based application has following typical workflow on fastpath:
- * \code{.c}
- *     while (1) {
- *
- *             rte_event_schedule(dev_id);
- *
- *             rte_event_dequeue(...);
- *
- *             (event processing)
- *
- *             rte_event_enqueue(...);
- *     }
- * \endcode
- *
  * The events are injected to event device through *enqueue* operation by
  * event producers in the system. The typical event producers are ethdev
  * subsystem for generating packet events, CPU(SW) for generating events based
  * indicates the device is centralized and thus needs a dedicated scheduling
  * thread that repeatedly calls rte_event_schedule().
  *
+ * An event driven worker thread has following typical workflow on fastpath:
+ * \code{.c}
+ *     while (1) {
+ *             rte_event_dequeue_burst(...);
+ *             (event processing)
+ *             rte_event_enqueue_burst(...);
+ *     }
+ * \endcode
+ *
  */
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus