[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/3] doc: update cryptodev scheduler PMD documentation

Fan Zhang roy.fan.zhang at intel.com
Wed Mar 29 10:24:28 CEST 2017


This patch updates fail-over scheduling mode description.

Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang at intel.com>
---
v4:
- Fixed grammer errors in documentation
- Polished documentation

 doc/guides/cryptodevs/scheduler.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/scheduler.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/scheduler.rst
index 70fb62e..9f6c477 100644
--- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/scheduler.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/scheduler.rst
@@ -126,3 +126,11 @@ 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_FAILOVER:**
+
+   Fail-over mode, which works with 2 slaves, the primary slave and the
+   secondary slave. In this mode, the scheduler will enqueue the incoming
+   crypto operation burst to the primary slave. When one or more crypto
+   operations fail to be enqueued, then they will be enqueued to the secondary
+   slave.
-- 
2.7.4



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