MAX_NB_TX(3)

📦 version 26.03, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💅 rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_conf(3) — the manual page, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, this is rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_conf(3) from the DPDK Library Functions Manual, and it's literally just a lil struct that holds the config for the Ethernet TX adapter. it's giving "small but important", the backstage pass of the eventdev world 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_conf — the adapter configuration structure, no cap 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <rte_event_eth_tx_adapter.h>

🦋 Data Fields

  • uint8_t event_port_id
  • uint32_t max_nb_tx

that's the whole squad, two fields, both iconic in their own way ✨

💖 Detailed Description 💖

it's the Adapter configuration structure — periodt. this is the struct you fill in to tell the TX adapter how to behave.

See also 👀

  • rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_create_ext
  • rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_conf_cb

Definition at line 96 of file rte_event_eth_tx_adapter.h. so if you're lost in the header, that's exactly where it lives 📍

🧚 Field Documentation 🧚

💜 uint8_t event_port_id

the Event port identifier — the adapter's service function dequeues mbuf events from this port. it's basically the adapter's assigned seat in the group chat, lowkey. 🪑

See also

  • RTE_EVENT_ETH_RX_ADAPTER_CAP_INTERNAL_PORT

Definition at line 97 of file rte_event_eth_tx_adapter.h.

🔥 uint32_t max_nb_tx

okay so here's the tea: the adapter can return early if it has processed at least max_nb_tx mbufs. but — and this is the important part — it isn't treated as a requirement; batching may cause the adapter to process more than max_nb_tx mbufs. so it's a vibe, not a hard limit 😭 don't come for it when the count overshoots, that's just batching doing its thing.

Definition at line 102 of file rte_event_eth_tx_adapter.h.

🌈 Author 🌈

Generated automatically by Doxygen for DPDK from the source code. so nobody hand-wrote this, the robots ate and left no crumbs 🤖✨

ngl bestie, the thing to remember: event_port_id = where your events come from, max_nb_tx = a soft lil "you can stop around here" that batching is fully allowed to ignore. that's the whole vibe check 🎀

and that's the page!! sign-off time: this was DPDK, Version 26.03.0, page rte_event_...dapter_conf(3) — mwah, go slay your eventdev config 💅💖

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