eventdev: clarify usage of forward and release ops

Update doxygen to make it clear that RTE_EVENT_OP_FORWARD and
RTE_EVENT_OP_RELEASE must only be enqueued to the same port that the
original event was dequeued from.

Signed-off-by: Tim McDaniel <timothy.mcdaniel@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
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Tim McDaniel 2017-09-06 10:42:07 -05:00 committed by Jerin Jacob
parent 381acec2b1
commit cec04e240d

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@ -882,7 +882,10 @@ rte_event_dev_close(uint8_t dev_id);
#define RTE_EVENT_OP_FORWARD 1
/**< The CPU use this operation to forward the event to different event queue or
* change to new application specific flow or schedule type to enable
* pipelining
* pipelining.
*
* This operation must only be enqueued to the same port that the
* event to be forwarded was dequeued from.
*/
#define RTE_EVENT_OP_RELEASE 2
/**< Release the flow context associated with the schedule type.
@ -912,6 +915,9 @@ rte_event_dev_close(uint8_t dev_id);
* or no scheduling context is held then this function may be an NOOP,
* depending on the implementation.
*
* This operation must only be enqueued to the same port that the
* event to be released was dequeued from.
*
*/
/**
@ -1144,6 +1150,9 @@ __rte_event_enqueue_burst(uint8_t dev_id, uint8_t port_id,
* The *nb_events* parameter is the number of event objects to enqueue which are
* supplied in the *ev* array of *rte_event* structure.
*
* Event operations RTE_EVENT_OP_FORWARD and RTE_EVENT_OP_RELEASE must only be
* enqueued to the same port that their associated events were dequeued from.
*
* The rte_event_enqueue_burst() function returns the number of
* events objects it actually enqueued. A return value equal to *nb_events*
* means that all event objects have been enqueued.
@ -1346,6 +1355,9 @@ rte_event_dequeue_timeout_ticks(uint8_t dev_id, uint64_t ns,
* with RTE_EVENT_OP_RELEASE operation can be used to release the
* contexts early.
*
* Event operations RTE_EVENT_OP_FORWARD and RTE_EVENT_OP_RELEASE must only be
* enqueued to the same port that their associated events were dequeued from.
*
* @param dev_id
* The identifier of the device.
* @param port_id