Deprecation Notices
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-* 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.
-
-* 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 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.
-
-* 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.
-
-* The scheduler statistics structure will change to allow keeping track of
- RED actions.
-
-* librte_table: New functions for table entry bulk add/delete will be added
- to the table operations structure.
-
-* 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.
-
-* 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.
+* eal: several API and ABI changes are planned for ``rte_devargs`` in v18.02.
+ The format of device command line parameters will change. The bus will need
+ to be explicitly stated in the device declaration. The enum ``rte_devtype``
+ was used to identify a bus and will disappear.
+ The structure ``rte_devargs`` will change.
+ The ``rte_devargs_list`` will be made private.
+ The following functions are deprecated starting from 17.08 and will either be
+ modified or removed in 18.02:
+
+ - ``rte_eal_devargs_add``
+ - ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count``
+ - ``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str``, replaced by ``rte_eal_devargs_parse``
+
+* pci: Several exposed functions are misnamed.
+ The following functions are deprecated starting from v17.11 and are replaced:
+
+ - ``eal_parse_pci_BDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
+ - ``eal_parse_pci_DomBDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
+ - ``rte_eal_compare_pci_addr`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_cmp``
+
+* ethdev: a new Tx and Rx offload API was introduced on 17.11.
+ In the new API, offloads are divided into per-port and per-queue offloads.
+ Offloads are disabled by default and enabled per application request.
+ The old offloads API is target to be deprecated on 18.05. This includes:
+
+ - removal of ``ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NO*`` flags.
+ - removal of ``txq_flags`` field from ``rte_eth_txconf`` struct.
+ - removal of the offloads bit-field from ``rte_eth_rxmode`` struct.
+
+* 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.
+
+* librte_meter: The API will change to accommodate configuration profiles.
+ Most of the API functions will have an additional opaque parameter.
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