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author | brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-01-30 21:02:25 +0000 |
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committer | brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-01-30 21:02:25 +0000 |
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Manpages for the buf_ring and drbr interfaces.
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diff --git a/share/man/man9/drbr.9 b/share/man/man9/drbr.9 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ad67c35 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man9/drbr.9 @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Bitgravity Inc +.\" Written by: Kip Macy <kmacy@@FreeBSD.org> +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.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 . |