Deprecation Notices
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-* Significant ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_dev to support up to
- 1024 queues per port. This change will be in release 2.2.
- There is no backward compatibility planned from release 2.2.
- All binaries will need to be rebuilt from release 2.2.
-
* The following fields have been deprecated in rte_eth_stats:
ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff
-* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_fdir_flow_ext in order to support
- flow director filtering in VF. The release 2.1 does not contain these ABI
- changes, but release 2.2 will, and no backwards compatibility is planned.
+* The ethdev structures rte_eth_link, rte_eth_dev_info and rte_eth_conf
+ must be updated to support 100G link and to have a cleaner link speed API.
-* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_fdir_filter and
- rte_eth_fdir_masks in order to support new flow director modes,
- MAC VLAN and Cloud, on x550. The MAC VLAN mode means the MAC and
- VLAN are monitored. The Cloud mode is for VxLAN and NVGRE, and
- the tunnel type, TNI/VNI, inner MAC and inner VLAN are monitored.
- The release 2.2 will contain these changes without backwards compatibility.
+* ABI changes is planned for the reta field in struct rte_eth_rss_reta_entry64
+ which handles at most 256 queues (8 bits) while newer NICs support larger
+ tables (512 queues).
+ It should be integrated in release 2.3.
-* ABI changes are planned for struct virtio_net in order to support vhost-user
- multiple queues feature.
- It should be integrated in release 2.2 without backward compatibility.
+* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_fdir_flow in order to support
+ extend flow director's input set. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI
+ changes, but release 2.3 will, and no backwards compatibility is planned.
-* The scheduler hierarchy structure (rte_sched_port_hierarchy) will change to
- allow for a larger number of subport entries.
- The number of available traffic_classes and queues may also change.
- The mbuf structure element for sched hierarchy will also change from a single
- 32 bit to a 64 bit structure.
+* ABI changes are planned for rte_eth_ipv4_flow and rte_eth_ipv6_flow to
+ include more fields to be matched against. The release 2.2 does not
+ contain these ABI changes, but release 2.3 will.
-* The scheduler statistics structure will change to allow keeping track of
- RED actions.
+* ABI changes are planned for adding four new flow types. This impacts
+ RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes,
+ but release 2.3 will.
-* librte_table: New functions for table entry bulk add/delete will be added
- to the table operations structure.
+* ABI changes are planned for rte_eth_tunnel_filter_conf. Change the fields
+ of outer_mac and inner_mac from pointer to struct in order to keep the
+ code's readability. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes, but
+ release 2.3 will, and no backwards compatibility is planned.
-* librte_table hash: Key mask parameter will be added to the hash table
- parameter structure for 8-byte key and 16-byte key extendible bucket and
- LRU tables.
+* The scheduler statistics structure will change to allow keeping track of
+ RED actions.
* librte_pipeline: The prototype for the pipeline input port, output port
and table action handlers will be updated:
the pipeline parameter will be added, the packets mask parameter will be
either removed (for input port action handler) or made input-only.
+
+* ABI changes are planned in cmdline buffer size to allow the use of long
+ commands (such as RETA update in testpmd). This should impact
+ CMDLINE_PARSE_RESULT_BUFSIZE, STR_TOKEN_SIZE and RDLINE_BUF_SIZE.
+ It should be integrated in release 2.3.
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