NDIS_PD_QUEUE_PARAMETERS structure (ndis.h)

This structure is used to hold parameters for a transmit or receive queue when calling any of the queue routines.

Syntax

typedef struct _NDIS_PD_QUEUE_PARAMETERS {
  NDIS_OBJECT_HEADER     Header;
  ULONG                  Flags;
  NDIS_PD_QUEUE_TYPE     QueueType;
  ULONG                  QueueSize;
  ULONG                  ReceiveDataLength;
  GROUP_AFFINITY         Affinity;
  ULONG                  TrafficClassId;
  ULONG                  MaximumPartialBufferCount;
  NDIS_PD_COUNTER_HANDLE CounterHandle;
} NDIS_PD_QUEUE_PARAMETERS;

Members

Header

The NDIS_OBJECT_HEADER structure for the NDIS_PD_CONFIG structure. Set the members of this structure as follows:

• Type = NDIS_OBJECT_TYPE_DEFAULT
• Revision = NDIS_PD_QUEUE_PARAMETERS_REVISION_1
• Size = NDIS_SIZEOF_PD_QUEUE_PARAMETERS_REVISION_1

Flags

This member is reserved and must be set to 0 by the provider.

QueueType

The type of the queue. For more information see, NDIS_PD_QUEUE_TYPE.

QueueSize

The maximum amount of PD_BUFFER structures this queue can hold and is always equal to a number of the form (2^k)-1 (63, 127, 255, 511, 1023, etc.). This lends itself to efficient circular index arithmetic.

ReceiveDataLength

The minimum PD_BUFFER data length.

Affinity

The processor affinity is a hint to the provider for performance optimization. The platform will primarily be processing the queue on processors indicated by this mask. The provider must set this value to the processor core derived from the indirection table configured from OID_GEN_RECEIVE_SCALE_PARAMETERS

TrafficClassId

MaximumPartialBufferCount

For transmit queues, this is the maximum number of partial PD_BUFFER structures that the client is allowed to chain together to form a single L2 packet. This value must be equal to the MaximumTxPartialBufferCount value in the NDIS_PD_CAPABILITIES structure.

For receive queues, this is the maximum number of partial PD_BUFFER structures that the provider is allowed to chain together to form a single large L2 packet with RSC. This must be less than or equal to the MaximumRxPartialBufferCount value in the NDIS_PD_CAPABILITIES structure.

Note  The client never posts PD_BUFFER structures with the partial flag to the receive queue. The client is always required to post PD_BUFFER structures with at least MTU-size space, starting from the data start position. The provider performs chaining only in the case of RSC. Some providers may not be able to support RSC chaining, these providers set a value of 1 to the MaximumRxPartialBufferCount member in the NDIS_PD_CAPABILITIES structure.

 

CounterHandle

This is a handle to the transmit queue counter for transmit queues and a receive queue counter for receive queues.During queue creation, a client can optionally provide a counter handle. In this case and depending on the queue type, the provider must update the counter values as activity occurs on the queue. The client is responsible for closing the counter handle only after the queue is closed.

For queues that are not directly created by the client, such as RSS receive queues obtained using the NdisPDOnRssReceiveQueuesroutine, the provider must always have an associated counter handle with the queue. That is, for a given set of RSS receive queues, the provider must have one dedicated receive queue counter for each receive queue.

Remarks

This structure must be aligned on an 8-byte boundary.

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows 10
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2016
Header	ndis.h

See also

NDIS_PD_QUEUE_TYPE

NdisPDAllocateQueue