[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: update cryptodev scheduler PMD documentation

Fan Zhang roy.fan.zhang at intel.com
Tue Mar 28 16:09:20 CEST 2017


This patch updates packet size based scheduling mode description.

Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/cryptodevs/scheduler.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/scheduler.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/scheduler.rst
index 70fb62e..51f2a78 100644
--- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/scheduler.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/scheduler.rst
@@ -126,3 +126,17 @@ operation:
    among its slaves in a round-robin manner. This mode may help to fill
    the throughput gap between the physical core and the existing cryptodevs
    to increase the overall performance.
+
+*   **CDEV_SCHED_MODE_PKT_SIZE_DISTR:**
+
+   Packet-size based distribution mode, which works with 2 slaves, primary
+   slave and secondary slave, and distribute the enqueued crypto ops to them
+   based on their data lengths. A crypto op will be distributed to the primary
+   slave if its data length equals or bigger than the designated threshold,
+   otherwise it will be handled by the secondary slave.
+
+   A typical usecase of this mode is with QAT cryptodev as primary and a
+   software cryptodev as secondary slave. This may help the application being
+   capable of processing extra crypto workload than what the sole QAT cryptodev
+   can handle, by making use of the available CPU cycles to deal with lesser
+   crypto workloads.
-- 
2.7.4



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