rte_event_timer_adapter.h(3) DPDK rte_event_timer_adapter.h(3) NAME rte_event_timer_adapter.h SYNOPSIS #include 'rte_eventdev.h' #include 'rte_eventdev_trace_fp.h' Data Structures struct rte_event_timer_adapter_conf struct rte_event_timer_adapter_stats struct rte_event_timer_adapter_info struct rte_event_timer Macros #define RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_F_ADJUST_RES (1ULL << 0) #define RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_F_SP_PUT (1ULL << 1) #define RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_F_PERIODIC (1ULL << 2) Typedefs typedef int(* rte_event_timer_adapter_port_conf_cb_t) (uint16_t id, uint8_t event_dev_id, uint8_t *event_port_id, void *conf_arg) Enumerations enum rte_event_timer_adapter_clk_src { RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_CPU_CLK, RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_EXT_CLK0, RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_EXT_CLK1, RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_EXT_CLK2, RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_EXT_CLK3 } enum rte_event_timer_state { RTE_EVENT_TIMER_NOT_ARMED = 0, RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ARMED = 1, RTE_EVENT_TIMER_CANCELED = 2, RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ERROR = -1, RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ERROR_TOOEARLY = -2, RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ERROR_TOOLATE = -3 } Functions struct rte_event_timer_adapter * rte_event_timer_adapter_create (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter_conf *conf) struct rte_event_timer_adapter * rte_event_timer_adapter_create_ext (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter_conf *conf, rte_event_timer_adapter_port_conf_cb_t conf_cb, void *conf_arg) int rte_event_timer_adapter_get_info (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter *adapter, struct rte_event_timer_adapter_info *adapter_info) int rte_event_timer_adapter_start (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter *adapter) int rte_event_timer_adapter_stop (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter *adapter) struct rte_event_timer_adapter * rte_event_timer_adapter_lookup (uint16_t adapter_id) int rte_event_timer_adapter_free (struct rte_event_timer_adapter *adapter) int rte_event_timer_adapter_service_id_get (struct rte_event_timer_adapter *adapter, uint32_t *service_id) int rte_event_timer_adapter_stats_get (struct rte_event_timer_adapter *adapter, struct rte_event_timer_adapter_stats *stats) int rte_event_timer_adapter_stats_reset (struct rte_event_timer_adapter *adapter) static uint16_t rte_event_timer_arm_burst (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter *adapter, struct rte_event_timer **evtims, uint16_t nb_evtims) static uint16_t rte_event_timer_arm_tmo_tick_burst (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter *adapter, struct rte_event_timer **evtims, const uint64_t timeout_ticks, const uint16_t nb_evtims) static uint16_t rte_event_timer_cancel_burst (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter *adapter, struct rte_event_timer **evtims, uint16_t nb_evtims) __rte_experimental int rte_event_timer_remaining_ticks_get (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter *adapter, const struct rte_event_timer *evtim, uint64_t *ticks_remaining) Detailed Description RTE Event Timer Adapter An event timer adapter has the following abstract working model: timer_tick_ns + +-------+ | | | | +-------+ bkt 0 +----v---+ | | | | | +-------+ | +---+---+ +---+---+ +---+---+---+---+ | | | | | | | | | | bkt n | | bkt 1 |<-> t0| t1| t2| tn| | | | | | | | | | +---+---+ +---+---+ +---+---+---+---+ | Timer adapter | +---+---+ +---+---+ | | | | | bkt 4 | | bkt 2 |<--- Current bucket | | | | +---+---+ +---+---+ | +-------+ | | | | | +------+ bkt 3 +-------+ | | +-------+ * It has a virtual monotonically increasing 64-bit timer adapter clock based on enum rte_event_timer_adapter_clk_src clock source. The clock source could be a CPU clock, or a platform dependent external clock. * The application creates a timer adapter instance with given the clock source, the total number of event timers, and a resolution(expressed in ns) to traverse between the buckets. * Each timer adapter may have 0 to n buckets based on the configured max timeout(max_tmo_ns) and resolution(timer_tick_ns). Upon starting the timer adapter, the adapter starts ticking at timer_tick_ns resolution. * The application arms an event timer that will expire timer_tick_ns from now. * The application can cancel an armed timer and no timer expiry event will be generated. * If a timer expires then the library injects the timer expiry event in the designated event queue. * The timer expiry event will be received through rte_event_dequeue_burst. * The application frees the timer adapter instance. Multiple timer adapters can be created with a varying level of resolution for various expiry use cases that run in parallel. Before using the timer adapter, the application has to create and configure an event device along with the event port. Based on the event device capa- bility it might require creating an additional event port to be used by the timer adapter. The application creates the event timer adapter using the rte_event_timer_adapter_create(). The event device id is passed to this function, inside this function the event device capability is checked, and if an in-built port is absent the application uses the default function to create a new producer port. The application may also use the function rte_event_timer_adapter_cre- ate_ext() to have granular control over producer port creation in a case where the in-built port is absent. After creating the timer adapter, the application has to start it using rte_event_timer_adapter_start(). The buckets are traversed from 0 to n; when the adapter ticks, the next bucket is visited. Each time, the list per bucket is processed, and timer expiry events are sent to the designated event queue. The application can arm one or more event timers using the rte_event_timer_arm_burst(). The timeout_ticks represents the number of timer_tick_ns after which the timer has to expire. The timeout at which the timers expire can be grouped or be independent of each event timer in- stance. rte_event_timer_arm_tmo_tick_burst() addresses the former case and rte_event_timer_arm_burst() addresses the latter case. The application can cancel the timers from expiring using the rte_event_timer_cancel_burst(). On the secondary process, rte_event_timer_adapter_lookup() can be used to get the timer adapter pointer from its id and use it to invoke fastpath op- erations such as arm and cancel. Some of the use cases of event timer adapter are Beacon Timers, Generic SW Timeout, Wireless MAC Scheduling, 3G Frame Protocols, Packet Scheduling, Protocol Retransmission Timers, Supervision Timers. All these use cases re- quire high resolution and low time drift. Definition in file rte_event_timer_adapter.h. Macro Definition Documentation #define RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_F_ADJUST_RES (1ULL << 0) The event timer adapter implementation may have constraints on the resolu- tion (timer_tick_ns) and maximum timer expiry timeout(max_tmo_ns) based on the given timer adapter or system. If this flag is set, the implementation adjusts the resolution and maximum timeout to the best possible configura- tion. On successful timer adapter creation, the application can get the configured resolution and max timeout with rte_event_timer_adapter_get_info(). See also struct rte_event_timer_adapter_info::min_resolution_ns struct rte_event_timer_adapter_info::max_tmo_ns Definition at line 145 of file rte_event_timer_adapter.h. #define RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_F_SP_PUT (1ULL << 1) rte_event_timer_arm_burst() API to be used in single producer mode. See also struct rte_event_timer_adapter_conf::flags Definition at line 150 of file rte_event_timer_adapter.h. #define RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_F_PERIODIC (1ULL << 2) Flag to configure an event timer adapter in periodic mode; non-periodic mode is the default. A timer will fire once or periodically until the timer is cancelled based on the adapter mode. See also struct rte_event_timer_adapter_conf::flags Definition at line 158 of file rte_event_timer_adapter.h. Typedef Documentation typedef int(* rte_event_timer_adapter_port_conf_cb_t) (uint16_t id, uint8_t event_dev_id, uint8_t *event_port_id, void *conf_arg) Callback function type for producer port creation. Definition at line 205 of file rte_event_timer_adapter.h. Enumeration Type Documentation enum rte_event_timer_adapter_clk_src Timer adapter clock source Enumerator RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_CPU_CLK Use CPU clock as the clock source. RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_EXT_CLK0 Platform dependent external clock source 0. RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_EXT_CLK1 Platform dependent external clock source 1. RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_EXT_CLK2 Platform dependent external clock source 2. RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_EXT_CLK3 Platform dependent external clock source 3. Definition at line 121 of file rte_event_timer_adapter.h. enum rte_event_timer_state Event timer state. Enumerator RTE_EVENT_TIMER_NOT_ARMED Event timer not armed. RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ARMED Event timer successfully armed. RTE_EVENT_TIMER_CANCELED Event timer successfully canceled. RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ERROR Generic event timer error. RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ERROR_TOOEARLY Event timer timeout tick value is too small for the adapter to han- dle, given its configured resolution. RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ERROR_TOOLATE Event timer timeout tick is greater than the maximum timeout. Definition at line 455 of file rte_event_timer_adapter.h. Function Documentation struct rte_event_timer_adapter * rte_event_timer_adapter_create (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter_conf * conf) Create an event timer adapter. This function must be invoked first before any other function in the API. When this API is used for creating adapter instance, rte_event_dev_con- fig::nb_event_ports is automatically incremented, and the event device is reconfigured with additional event port during service initialization. This event device reconfigure logic also increments the rte_event_dev_con- fig::nb_single_link_event_port_queues parameter if the adapter event port config is of type RTE_EVENT_PORT_CFG_SINGLE_LINK. Application no longer needs to account for rte_event_dev_con- fig::nb_event_ports and rte_event_dev_config::nb_sin- gle_link_event_port_queues parameters required for Timer adapter in event device configuration when the adapter is created with this API. Parameters conf The event timer adapter configuration structure. Returns A pointer to the new allocated event timer adapter on success. NULL on error with rte_errno set appropriately. Possible rte_errno values in- clude: * ERANGE: timer_tick_ns is not in supported range. * ENOMEM: unable to allocate sufficient memory for adapter instances * EINVAL: invalid event device identifier specified in config * ENOSPC: maximum number of adapters already created * EIO: event device reconfiguration and restart error. The adapter re- configures the event device with an additional port by default if it is required to use a service to manage timers. If the device had been started before this call, this error code indicates an error in restart following an error in reconfiguration, i.e., a combination of the two error codes. struct rte_event_timer_adapter * rte_event_timer_adapter_create_ext (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter_conf * conf, rte_event_timer_adapter_port_conf_cb_t conf_cb, void * conf_arg) Create a timer adapter with the supplied callback. This function can be used to have a more granular control over the timer adapter creation. If a built-in port is absent, then the function uses the callback provided to create and get the port id to be used as a producer port. Parameters conf The timer adapter configuration structure conf_cb The port config callback function. conf_arg Opaque pointer to the argument for the callback function Returns A pointer to the new allocated event timer adapter on success. NULL on error with rte_errno set appropriately. Possible rte_errno values in- clude: * ERANGE: timer_tick_ns is not in supported range. * ENOMEM: unable to allocate sufficient memory for adapter instances * EINVAL: invalid event device identifier specified in config * ENOSPC: maximum number of adapters already created int rte_event_timer_adapter_get_info (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter * adapter, struct rte_event_timer_adapter_info * adapter_info) Retrieve the contextual information of an event timer adapter. Parameters adapter A pointer to the event timer adapter structure. adapter_info A pointer to a structure of type rte_event_timer_adapter_info to be filled with the contextual informa- tion of the adapter. Returns * 0: Success, driver updates the contextual information of the timer adapter * <0: Error code returned by the driver info get function. * -EINVAL: adapter identifier invalid See also RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_F_ADJUST_RES, struct rte_event_timer_adapter_info int rte_event_timer_adapter_start (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter * adapter) Start a timer adapter. The adapter start step is the last one and consists of setting the timer adapter to start accepting the timers and schedules to event queues. On success, all basic functions exported by the API (timer arm, timer can- cel and so on) can be invoked. Parameters adapter A pointer to the event timer adapter structure. Returns * 0: Success, adapter started. * <0: Error code returned by the driver start function. * -EINVAL if adapter identifier invalid * -ENOENT if software adapter but no service core mapped * -ENOTSUP if software adapter and more than one service core mapped * -EALREADY if adapter has already been started Note The eventdev to which the event_timer_adapter is connected needs to be started before calling rte_event_timer_adapter_start(). int rte_event_timer_adapter_stop (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter * adapter) Stop an event timer adapter. The adapter can be restarted with a call to rte_event_timer_adapter_start(). Parameters adapter A pointer to the event timer adapter structure. Returns * 0: Success, adapter stopped. * <0: Error code returned by the driver stop function. * -EINVAL if adapter identifier invalid struct rte_event_timer_adapter * rte_event_timer_adapter_lookup (uint16_t adapter_id) Lookup an event timer adapter using its identifier. If an event timer adapter was created in another process with the same identifier, this function will locate its state and set up access to it so that it can be used in this process. Parameters adapter_id The event timer adapter identifier. Returns A pointer to the event timer adapter matching the identifier on suc- cess. NULL on error with rte_errno set appropriately. Possible rte_er- rno values include: * ENOENT - requested entry not available to return. int rte_event_timer_adapter_free (struct rte_event_timer_adapter * adapter) Free an event timer adapter. Destroy an event timer adapter, freeing all resources. Before invoking this function, the application must wait for all the armed timers to expire or cancel the outstanding armed timers. Parameters adapter A pointer to an event timer adapter structure. Returns * 0: Successfully freed the event timer adapter resources. * <0: Failed to free the event timer adapter resources. * -EAGAIN: adapter is busy; timers outstanding * -EBUSY: stop hasn't been called for this adapter yet * -EINVAL: adapter id invalid, or adapter invalid int rte_event_timer_adapter_service_id_get (struct rte_event_timer_adapter * adapter, uint32_t * service_id) Retrieve the service ID of the event timer adapter. If the adapter doesn't use an rte_service function, this function returns -ESRCH. Parameters adapter A pointer to an event timer adapter. service_id A pointer to a uint32_t, to be filled in with the service id. Returns * 0: Success * <0: Error code on failure * -ESRCH: the adapter does not require a service to operate int rte_event_timer_adapter_stats_get (struct rte_event_timer_adapter * adapter, struct rte_event_timer_adapter_stats * stats) Retrieve statistics for an event timer adapter instance. Parameters adapter A pointer to an event timer adapter structure. stats A pointer to a structure to fill with statistics. Returns * 0: Successfully retrieved. * <0: Failure; error code returned. int rte_event_timer_adapter_stats_reset (struct rte_event_timer_adapter * adapter) Reset statistics for an event timer adapter instance. Parameters adapter A pointer to an event timer adapter structure. Returns * 0: Successfully reset; * <0: Failure; error code returned. static uint16_t rte_event_timer_arm_burst (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter * adapter, struct rte_event_timer ** evtims, uint16_t nb_evtims) [inline], [static] Arm a burst of event timers with separate expiration timeout tick for each event timer. Before calling this function, the application allocates struct rte_event_timer objects from mempool or huge page backed application buffers of desired size. On successful allocation, application updates the struct rte_event_timer attributes such as expiry event attributes, timeout ticks from now. This function submits the event timer arm requests to the event timer adapter and on expiry, the events will be injected to desig- nated event queue. Timer expiry events will be generated once or periodi- cally until cancellation based on the adapter mode. Parameters adapter A pointer to an event timer adapter structure. evtims Pointer to an array of objects of type rte_event_timer struc- ture. nb_evtims Number of event timers in the supplied array. Returns The number of successfully armed event timers. The return value can be less than the value of the nb_evtims parameter. If the return value is less than nb_evtims, the remaining event timers at the end of evtims are not consumed, and the caller has to take care of them, and rte_er- rno is set accordingly. Possible errno values include: * EINVAL Invalid timer adapter, expiry event queue ID is invalid, or an expiry event's sched type doesn't match the capabilities of the des- tination event queue. * EAGAIN Specified timer adapter is not running * EALREADY A timer was encountered that was already armed See also RTE_EVENT_TIMER_ADAPTER_F_PERIODIC Definition at line 598 of file rte_event_timer_adapter.h. static uint16_t rte_event_timer_arm_tmo_tick_burst (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter * adapter, struct rte_event_timer ** evtims, const uint64_t timeout_ticks, const uint16_t nb_evtims) [inline], [static] Arm a burst of event timers with same expiration timeout tick. Provides the same functionality as rte_event_timer_arm_burst(), except that application can use this API when all the event timers have the same time- out expiration tick. This specialized function can provide the additional hint to the adapter implementation and optimize if possible. Parameters adapter A pointer to an event timer adapter structure. evtims Points to an array of objects of type rte_event_timer structure. timeout_ticks The number of ticks in which the timers should expire. nb_evtims Number of event timers in the supplied array. Returns The number of successfully armed event timers. The return value can be less than the value of the nb_evtims parameter. If the return value is less than nb_evtims, the remaining event timers at the end of evtims are not consumed, and the caller has to take care of them, and rte_er- rno is set accordingly. Possible errno values include: * EINVAL Invalid timer adapter, expiry event queue ID is invalid, or an expiry event's sched type doesn't match the capabilities of the des- tination event queue. * EAGAIN Specified event timer adapter is not running * EALREADY A timer was encountered that was already armed Definition at line 641 of file rte_event_timer_adapter.h. static uint16_t rte_event_timer_cancel_burst (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter * adapter, struct rte_event_timer ** evtims, uint16_t nb_evtims) [inline], [static] Cancel a burst of event timers from being scheduled to the event device. Parameters adapter A pointer to an event timer adapter structure. evtims Points to an array of objects of type rte_event_timer structure nb_evtims Number of event timer instances in the supplied array. Returns The number of successfully canceled event timers. The return value can be less than the value of the nb_evtims parameter. If the return value is less than nb_evtims, the remaining event timers at the end of evtims are not consumed, and the caller has to take care of them, and rte_er- rno is set accordingly. Possible errno values include: * EINVAL Invalid timer adapter identifier * EAGAIN Specified timer adapter is not running * EALREADY A timer was encountered that was already canceled Definition at line 678 of file rte_event_timer_adapter.h. __rte_experimental int rte_event_timer_remaining_ticks_get (const struct rte_event_timer_adapter * adapter, const struct rte_event_timer * evtim, uint64_t * ticks_remaining) Get the number of ticks remaining until event timer expiry. Parameters adapter A pointer to an event timer adapter structure evtim A pointer to an rte_event_timer structure ticks_remaining Pointer to variable into which to write the number of ticks remaining until event timer expiry Returns * 0: Success * -EINVAL Invalid timer adapter identifier or the event timer is not in the armed state or ticks_remaining is NULL * -ENOTSUP The timer adapter implementation does not support this API. Author Generated automatically by Doxygen for DPDK from the source code. Version 25.11.0 Thu Aug 27 2026 rte_event_timer_adapter.h(3)
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