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.Dd January 30, 2012
.Dt DRBR 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm drbr ,
.Nm drbr_free ,
.Nm drbr_enqueue ,
.Nm drbr_dequeue ,
.Nm drbr_dequeue_cond ,
.Nm drbr_flush ,
.Nm drbr_empty ,
.Nm drbr_inuse ,
.Nm drbr_stats_update ,
.Nd network driver interface to buf_ring
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h
.In net/if.h
.In net/if_var.h
.Ft void
.Fn drbr_free "struct buf_ring *br" "struct malloc_type *type"
.Ft int
.Fn drbr_enqueue "struct ifnet *ifp" "struct buf_ring *br" "struct mbuf *m"
.Ft struct mbuf *
.Fn drbr_dequeue "struct ifnet *ifp" "struct buf_ring *br"
.Ft struct mbuf *
.Fn drbr_dequeue_cond "struct ifnet *ifp" "struct buf_ring *br" "int (*func) (struct mbuf *, void *)" "void *arg"
.Ft void
.Fn drbr_flush "struct ifnet *ifp" "struct buf_ring *br"
.Ft int
.Fn drbr_empty "struct ifnet *ifp" "struct buf_ring *br"
.Ft int
.Fn drbr_inuse "struct ifnet *ifp" "struct buf_ring *br"
.Ft void
.Fn drbr_stats_update "struct ifnet *ifp" "int len" "int mflags"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
functions provide an API to network drivers for using
.Xr buf_ring 9
for enqueueing and dequeueing packets.
This is meant as a replacement for the IFQ interface for packet queuing.
It allows a packet to be enqueued with a single atomic and packet
dequeue to be done without any per-packet atomics as it is protected
by the driver's tx queue lock.
If
.Dv INVARIANTS
is enabled,
.Fn drbr_dequeue
will assert that the tx queue lock is held when it is called.
.Pp
The
.Fn drbr_free
function frees all the enqueued mbufs and then frees the buf_ring.
.Pp
The
.Fn drbr_enqueue
function is used to enqueue an mbuf to a buf_ring, falling back to the
ifnet's IFQ if
.Xr ALTQ 4
is enabled.
.Pp
The
.Fn drbr_dequeue
function is used to dequeue an mbuf from a buf_ring or, if
.Xr ALTQ 4
is enabled, from the ifnet's IFQ.
.Pp
The
.Fn drbr_dequeue_cond
function is used to conditionally dequeue an mbuf from a buf_ring based
on whether
.Fa func
returns
.Dv TRUE
or
.Dv FALSE .
.Pp
The
.Fn drbr_flush
function frees all mbufs enqueued in the buf_ring and the ifnet's IFQ.
.Pp
The
.Fn drbr_empty
function returns
.Dv TRUE
if there are no mbufs enqueued,
.Dv FALSE
otherwise.
.Pp
The
.Fn drbr_inuse
function returns the number of mbufs enqueued.
Note to users that this is intrinsically racy as there is no guarantee that
there will not be more mbufs when
.Fn drbr_dequeue
is actually called.
Provided the tx queue lock is held there will not be less.
.Pp
The
.Fn drbr_stats_update
function updates the number of bytes and the number of multicast packets sent.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn drbr_enqueue
function returns
.Er ENOBUFS
if there are no slots available in the buf_ring and
.Dv 0
on success.
.Pp
The
.Fn drbr_dequeue
and
.Fn drbr_dequeue_cond
functions return an mbuf on success and
.Dv NULL
if the buf_ring is empty.
.Sh HISTORY
These functions were introduced in
.Fx 8.0 .