numam-dpdk/lib/librte_gro/rte_gro.h
Jiayu Hu 1e4cf4d6d4 gro: cleanup
This patch updates codes as follows:
- change appropriate names for internal structures, variants and functions
- update comments and the content of the gro programmer guide for better
  understanding
- remove needless check and redundant comments

Signed-off-by: Jiayu Hu <jiayu.hu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Junjie Chen <junjie.j.chen@intel.com>
2018-01-11 23:18:24 +01:00

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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
* Copyright(c) 2017 Intel Corporation
*/
#ifndef _RTE_GRO_H_
#define _RTE_GRO_H_
/**
* @file
* Interface to GRO library
*/
#include <stdint.h>
#include <rte_mbuf.h>
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
#define RTE_GRO_MAX_BURST_ITEM_NUM 128U
/**< the max number of packets that rte_gro_reassemble_burst()
* can process in each invocation.
*/
#define RTE_GRO_TYPE_MAX_NUM 64
/**< the max number of supported GRO types */
#define RTE_GRO_TYPE_SUPPORT_NUM 1
/**< the number of currently supported GRO types */
#define RTE_GRO_TCP_IPV4_INDEX 0
#define RTE_GRO_TCP_IPV4 (1ULL << RTE_GRO_TCP_IPV4_INDEX)
/**< TCP/IPv4 GRO flag */
/**
* Structure used to create GRO context objects or used to pass
* application-determined parameters to rte_gro_reassemble_burst().
*/
struct rte_gro_param {
uint64_t gro_types;
/**< desired GRO types */
uint16_t max_flow_num;
/**< max flow number */
uint16_t max_item_per_flow;
/**< max packet number per flow */
uint16_t socket_id;
/**< socket index for allocating GRO related data structures,
* like reassembly tables. When use rte_gro_reassemble_burst(),
* applications don't need to set this value.
*/
};
/**
* @warning
* @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
*
* This function create a GRO context object, which is used to merge
* packets in rte_gro_reassemble().
*
* @param param
* applications use it to pass needed parameters to create a GRO
* context object.
*
* @return
* if create successfully, return a pointer which points to the GRO
* context object. Otherwise, return NULL.
*/
void *rte_gro_ctx_create(const struct rte_gro_param *param);
/**
* @warning
* @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
*
* This function destroys a GRO context object.
*
* @param ctx
* pointer points to a GRO context object.
*/
void rte_gro_ctx_destroy(void *ctx);
/**
* This is one of the main reassembly APIs, which merges numbers of
* packets at a time. It doesn't check if input packets have correct
* checksums and doesn't re-calculate checksums for merged packets.
* It assumes the packets are complete (i.e., MF==0 && frag_off==0),
* when IP fragmentation is possible (i.e., DF==0). The GROed packets
* are returned as soon as the function finishes.
*
* @param pkts
* Pointer array pointing to the packets to reassemble. Besides, it
* keeps MBUF addresses for the GROed packets.
* @param nb_pkts
* The number of packets to reassemble
* @param param
* Application-determined parameters for reassembling packets.
*
* @return
* The number of packets after been GROed. If no packets are merged,
* the return value is equals to nb_pkts.
*/
uint16_t rte_gro_reassemble_burst(struct rte_mbuf **pkts,
uint16_t nb_pkts,
const struct rte_gro_param *param);
/**
* @warning
* @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
*
* Reassembly function, which tries to merge input packets with the
* existed packets in the reassembly tables of a given GRO context.
* It doesn't check if input packets have correct checksums and doesn't
* re-calculate checksums for merged packets. Additionally, it assumes
* the packets are complete (i.e., MF==0 && frag_off==0), when IP
* fragmentation is possible (i.e., DF==0).
*
* If the input packets have invalid parameters (e.g. no data payload,
* unsupported GRO types), they are returned to applications. Otherwise,
* they are either merged or inserted into the table. Applications need
* to flush packets from the tables by flush API, if they want to get the
* GROed packets.
*
* @param pkts
* Packets to reassemble. It's also used to store the unprocessed packets.
* @param nb_pkts
* The number of packets to reassemble
* @param ctx
* GRO context object pointer
*
* @return
* The number of unprocessed packets.
*/
uint16_t rte_gro_reassemble(struct rte_mbuf **pkts,
uint16_t nb_pkts,
void *ctx);
/**
* @warning
* @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
*
* This function flushes the timeout packets from the reassembly tables
* of desired GRO types. The max number of flushed packets is the
* element number of 'out'.
*
* Additionally, the flushed packets may have incorrect checksums, since
* this function doesn't re-calculate checksums for merged packets.
*
* @param ctx
* GRO context object pointer.
* @param timeout_cycles
* The max TTL for packets in reassembly tables, measured in nanosecond.
* @param gro_types
* This function flushes packets whose GRO types are specified by
* gro_types.
* @param out
* Pointer array used to keep flushed packets.
* @param max_nb_out
* The element number of 'out'. It's also the max number of timeout
* packets that can be flushed finally.
*
* @return
* The number of flushed packets.
*/
uint16_t rte_gro_timeout_flush(void *ctx,
uint64_t timeout_cycles,
uint64_t gro_types,
struct rte_mbuf **out,
uint16_t max_nb_out);
/**
* @warning
* @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
*
* This function returns the number of packets in all reassembly tables
* of a given GRO context.
*
* @param ctx
* GRO context object pointer.
*
* @return
* The number of packets in the tables.
*/
uint64_t rte_gro_get_pkt_count(void *ctx);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif /* _RTE_GRO_H_ */