+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ Copyright 2018 The DPDK contributors
+
.. _doc_guidelines:
DPDK Documentation Guidelines
|-- testpmd_app_ug
|-- rel_notes
|-- nics
- |-- xen
|-- ...
* **API documentation**
The API documentation explains how to use the public DPDK functions.
- The `API index page <http://dpdk.org/doc/api/>`_ shows the generated API documentation with related groups of functions.
+ The `API index page <http://doc.dpdk.org/api/>`_ shows the generated API documentation with related groups of functions.
The API documentation should be updated via Doxygen comments when new functions are added.
testpmd -l 2-3 -n 4 \
--vdev=virtio_user0,path=/dev/vhost-net,queues=2,queue_size=1024 \
- -- -i --txqflags=0x0 --disable-hw-vlan --enable-lro \
- --enable-rx-cksum --txq=2 --rxq=2 --rxd=1024 --txd=1024
+ -- -i --tx-offloads=0x0000002c --enable-lro --txq=2 --rxq=2 \
+ --txd=1024 --rxd=1024
Whitespace
.. code-block:: c
/**
- * Attach a new Ethernet device specified by arguments.
- *
- * @param devargs
- * A pointer to a strings array describing the new device
- * to be attached. The strings should be a pci address like
- * `0000:01:00.0` or **virtual** device name like `net_pcap0`.
- * @param port_id
- * A pointer to a port identifier actually attached.
+ * Try to take the lock.
*
+ * @param sl
+ * A pointer to the spinlock.
* @return
- * 0 on success and port_id is filled, negative on error.
+ * 1 if the lock is successfully taken; 0 otherwise.
*/
- int rte_eth_dev_attach(const char *devargs, uint8_t *port_id);
+ int rte_spinlock_trylock(rte_spinlock_t *sl);
* Doxygen supports Markdown style syntax such as bold, italics, fixed width text and lists.
For example the second line in the ``devargs`` parameter in the previous example will be rendered as:
*/
In the API documentation the functions will be rendered as links, see the
- `online section of the rte_ethdev.h docs <http://dpdk.org/doc/api/rte__ethdev_8h.html>`_ that contains the above text.
+ `online section of the rte_ethdev.h docs <http://doc.dpdk.org/api/rte__ethdev_8h.html>`_ that contains the above text.
* The ``@see`` keyword can be used to create a *see also* link to another file or library.
This directive should be placed on one line at the bottom of the documentation section.