rte_flow_port_attr(3)

✨ rte_flow_port_attr ✨

okay bestie so this is the manual page for rte_flow_port_attr (that's the title, and it lives in the Library Functions Manual — section 3 energy 💅). buckle up, it's a whole struct and we're going field by field, no skips, periodt.

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🫶 NAME 🫶

rte_flow_port_attr — the struct that holds your flow engine's resource settings, and every single data field it's made of. it's giving "short page, long receipts" ngl.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <rte_flow.h>

🎀 Data Fields 🎀

here's the whole squad, in order, exactly as they appear:

uint32_t nb_counters
uint32_t nb_aging_objects
uint32_t nb_meters
uint32_t nb_conn_tracks
uint16_t host_port_id
uint32_t nb_quotas
uint32_t flags

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💖 Detailed Description 💖

⚠️ Warning: EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice. so like… it will switch up on you, bestie. do not get attached, fr fr. 😭

so what even is this? it's the flow engine resources settings. and here's the iconic little detail: the zero value means on demand resource allocations only. zero = "i'll allocate when i need it, no hoarding" ✨. anything else = you're pre-committing, main character behavior.

📍 Defined at line 5589 of file rte_flow.h.

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🦋 Field Documentation 🦋

💫 uint32_t nb_counters

Number of counters to configure. that's it, that's the field. how many counters do you want, babes? 💅

See also: RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_COUNT

📍 Definition at line 5594 of file rte_flow.h.

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💫 uint32_t nb_aging_objects

Number of aging objects to configure. everything ages eventually, even your flow entries 🧚

See also: RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_AGE

📍 Definition at line 5599 of file rte_flow.h.

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💫 uint32_t nb_meters

Number of traffic meters to configure. we're measuring, we're monitoring, we're thriving 🌈

See also: RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_METER

📍 Definition at line 5604 of file rte_flow.h.

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💫 uint32_t nb_conn_tracks

Number of connection trackings to configure. yes, tracking. no, not in a toxic way. it's a networking feature, chill 😌

See also: RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_CONNTRACK

📍 Definition at line 5609 of file rte_flow.h.

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💫 uint16_t host_port_id

Port to base shared objects on. that's the anchor port, the home base, the one everything else is built on top of 🫶 (note the type bestie — this one is uint16_t, not uint32_t, do not play with it.)

📍 Definition at line 5613 of file rte_flow.h.

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💫 uint32_t nb_quotas

Maximum number of quota actions. the maximum, okay? we're capping it on purpose 👑

See also: RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_QUOTA

📍 Definition at line 5618 of file rte_flow.h.

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💫 uint32_t flags

Port flags (RTE_FLOW_PORT_FLAG_*). a whole family of flags, and this field is where you pass them in. iykyk ✨

📍 Definition at line 5622 of file rte_flow.h.

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🍓 Author 🍓

Generated automatically by Doxygen for DPDK from the source code. so like, no human wrote this, it was birthed by a doc generator and honestly? she ate 💅

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this was DPDK Version 25.11.3, and yeah, the footer still reads rte_flow_port_attr(3) because that's just her name. go configure some counters, love u, bye 🎀✨