compact API. The ones that remain are backwards compatible and use the
per-lcore default cache if available. This change targets release 16.07.
-* The rte_mempool struct will be changed in 16.07 to facilitate the new
- external mempool manager functionality.
- The ring element will be replaced with a more generic 'pool' opaque pointer
- to allow new mempool handlers to use their own user-defined mempool
- layout. Also newly added to rte_mempool is a handler index.
- The existing API will be backward compatible, but there will be new API
- functions added to facilitate the creation of mempools using an external
- handler. The 16.07 release will contain these changes.
-
* The mbuf flags PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT and PKT_RX_QINQ_PKT are deprecated and
are respectively replaced by PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED and
PKT_RX_QINQ_STRIPPED, that are better described. The old flags and