Deprecation Notices
-------------------
-* 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
+* eal: the following functions are deprecated starting from 17.05 and will
+ be removed in 17.08:
-* 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.
+ - ``rte_set_log_level``, replaced by ``rte_log_set_global_level``
+ - ``rte_get_log_level``, replaced by ``rte_log_get_global_level``
+ - ``rte_set_log_type``, replaced by ``rte_log_set_level``
+ - ``rte_get_log_type``, replaced by ``rte_log_get_level``
-* 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.
+* ring: Changes are planned to rte_ring APIs in release 17.05. Proposed
+ changes include:
-* 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.
+ - Removing build time options for the ring:
+ CONFIG_RTE_RING_SPLIT_PROD_CONS
+ CONFIG_RTE_RING_PAUSE_REP_COUNT
+ - Adding an additional parameter to enqueue functions to return the
+ amount of free space in the ring
+ - Adding an additional parameter to dequeue functions to return the
+ number of remaining elements in the ring
+ - Removing direct support for watermarks in the rings, since the
+ additional return value from the enqueue function makes it
+ unneeded
+ - Adjusting the return values of the bulk() enq/deq functions to
+ make them consistent with the burst() equivalents. [Note, parameter
+ to these functions are changing too, per points above, so compiler
+ will flag them as needing update in legacy code]
+ - Updates to some library functions e.g. rte_ring_get_memsize() to
+ allow for variably-sized ring elements.
-* 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.
+* igb_uio: iomem mapping and sysfs files created for iomem and ioport in
+ igb_uio will be removed, because we are able to detect these from what Linux
+ has exposed, like the way we have done with uio-pci-generic. This change
+ targets release 17.05.
-* 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.
+* vfio: Some functions are planned to be exported outside librte_eal in 17.05.
+ VFIO APIs like ``vfio_setup_device``, ``vfio_get_group_fd`` can be used by
+ subsystem other than EAL/PCI. For that, these need to be exported symbols.
+ Such APIs are planned to be renamed according to ``rte_*`` naming convention
+ and exported from librte_eal.
-* The scheduler statistics structure will change to allow keeping track of
- RED actions.
+* The PCI and VDEV subsystems will be converted as drivers of the new bus model.
+ It will imply some EAL API changes in 17.05.
-* 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.
+* ``eth_driver`` is planned to be removed in 17.05. This currently serves as
+ a placeholder for PMDs to register themselves. Changes for ``rte_bus`` will
+ provide a way to handle device initialization currently being done in
+ ``eth_driver``. Similarly, ``rte_pci_driver`` is planned to be removed from
+ ``rte_cryptodev_driver`` in 17.05.
+
+* ethdev: An API change is planned for 17.05 for the function
+ ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process``. In 17.05 the function will return an ``int``
+ instead of ``void`` and a fourth parameter ``void *ret_param`` will be added.
+
+* ethdev: for 17.05 it is planned to deprecate the following nine rte_eth_dev_*
+ functions and move them into the ixgbe PMD:
+
+ ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_init``, ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_state_set``,
+ ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_state_show``, ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_event_store``,
+ ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_event_show``, ``rte_eth_dev_wd_timeout_store``,
+ ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_wd_timeout_show``, ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_ver_show``,
+ ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_wd_reset``.
+
+ The following fields will be removed from ``struct eth_dev_ops``:
+
+ ``bypass_init_t``, ``bypass_state_set_t``, ``bypass_state_show_t``,
+ ``bypass_event_set_t``, ``bypass_event_show_t``, ``bypass_wd_timeout_set_t``,
+ ``bypass_wd_timeout_show_t``, ``bypass_ver_show_t``, ``bypass_wd_reset_t``.
+
+ The functions will be renamed to the following, and moved to the ``ixgbe`` PMD:
+
+ ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_init``, ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_state_set``,
+ ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_state_show``, ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_event_set``,
+ ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_event_show``, ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_wd_timeout_set``,
+ ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_wd_timeout_show``, ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_ver_show``,
+ ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_wd_reset``.
+
+* 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
+ their behavior will be kept until 17.02 and will be removed in 17.05.
+
+* ethdev: the legacy filter API, including
+ ``rte_eth_dev_filter_supported()``, ``rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl()`` as well
+ as filter types MACVLAN, ETHERTYPE, FLEXIBLE, SYN, NTUPLE, TUNNEL, FDIR,
+ HASH and L2_TUNNEL, is superseded by the generic flow API (rte_flow) in
+ PMDs that implement the latter.
+ Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
+ PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
+
+* ABI changes are planned for 17.05 in the ``rte_cryptodev_ops`` structure.
+ A pointer to a rte_cryptodev_config structure will be added to the
+ function prototype ``cryptodev_configure_t``, as a new parameter.
+
+* cryptodev: A new parameter ``max_nb_sessions_per_qp`` will be added to
+ ``rte_cryptodev_info.sym``. Some drivers may support limited number of
+ sessions per queue_pair. With this new parameter application will know
+ how many sessions can be mapped to each queue_pair of a device.
+
+* distributor: library API will be changed to incorporate a burst-oriented
+ API. This will include a change to ``rte_distributor_create``
+ to specify which type of instance to create (single or burst), and
+ additional calls for ``rte_distributor_poll_pkt_burst`` and
+ ``rte_distributor_return_pkt_burst``, among others.
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