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[dpdk-dev,v7,01/22] eventdev: improve API docs for start function

Message ID 1490902250-32164-2-git-send-email-harry.van.haaren@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Jerin Jacob
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Van Haaren, Harry March 30, 2017, 7:30 p.m. UTC 
  This commit documents two error return values for the
rte_event_dev_start() function.

-ESTALE  indicates not all ports are configured
-ENOLINK indicates that not all queues are linked to ports. If an
         application enqueues to such a queue it can lead to deadlock

Suggested-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
index 9971937..b8ed6ef 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
@@ -757,7 +757,8 @@  rte_event_port_count(uint8_t dev_id);
  *   Event device identifier
  * @return
  *   - 0: Success, device started.
- *   - <0: Error code of the driver device start function.
+ *   - -ESTALE : Not all ports of the device are configured
+ *   - -ENOLINK: Not all queues are linked, which could lead to deadlock.
  */
 int
 rte_event_dev_start(uint8_t dev_id);