X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Fdeprecation.rst;h=a7796f49b9fec9db0702b255c7c049477ea3f3d9;hb=c9030ae382eb942485dfa4e7657b4953bc77b2a9;hp=73bfa9d4aae78f0849d04ac3e68a4c4e10a792a3;hpb=db9f4430c26de505b3f9987ea4604d1ab5e5b64f;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 73bfa9d4aa..a7796f49b9 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Deprecation Notices * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case. +* eal: The function ``rte_eal_remote_launch`` will return new error codes + after read or write error on the pipe, instead of calling ``rte_panic``. + * eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in v18.11. New functions will appear to query a specific port from buses, classes of device and device drivers. Device declaration will be made coherent with the @@ -31,6 +34,10 @@ Deprecation Notices + ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count`` +* vfio: removal of ``rte_vfio_dma_map`` and ``rte_vfio_dma_unmap`` APIs which + have been replaced with ``rte_dev_dma_map`` and ``rte_dev_dma_unmap`` + functions. The due date for the removal targets DPDK 20.02. + * pci: Several exposed functions are misnamed. The following functions are deprecated starting from v17.11 and are replaced: @@ -52,31 +59,26 @@ Deprecation Notices Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most PMDs have switched to rte_flow. -* ethdev: Maximum and minimum MTU values vary between hardware devices. In - hardware agnostic DPDK applications access to such information would allow - a more accurate way of validating and setting supported MTU values on a per - device basis rather than using a defined default for all devices. To - resolve this, the following members will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info``. - Note: these can be added to fit a hole in the existing structure for amd64 - but not for 32-bit, as such ABI change will occur as size of the structure - will increase. - - - Member ``uint16_t min_mtu`` the minimum MTU allowed. - - Member ``uint16_t max_mtu`` the maximum MTU allowed. - -* kni: remove KNI ethtool support. To clarify, this is not to remove the KNI, - but only to remove ethtool support of it that is disabled by default and - can be enabled via ``CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD_ETHTOOL`` config option. - Existing KNI ethtool implementation is only supported by ``igb`` & ``ixgbe`` - drivers, by using a copy of kernel drivers in DPDK. This model cannot be - extended to all drivers in DPDK and it is too much effort to maintain - kernel modules in DPDK. As a result users won't be able to use ``ethtool`` - via ``igb`` & ``ixgbe`` anymore. - -* meter: New ``rte_color`` definition will be added in 19.02 and that will - replace ``enum rte_meter_color`` in meter library in 19.05. This will help - to consolidate color definition, which is currently replicated in many places, - such as: rte_meter.h, rte_mtr.h, rte_tm.h. - -* crypto/aesni_mb: the minimum supported intel-ipsec-mb library version will be - changed from 0.49.0 to 0.52.0. +* cryptodev: the ``uint8_t *data`` member of ``key`` structure in the xforms + structure (``rte_crypto_cipher_xform``, ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``, and + ``rte_crypto_aead_xform``) will be changed to ``const uint8_t *data``. + +* cryptodev: support for using IV with all sizes is added, J0 still can + be used but only when IV length in following structs ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``, + ``rte_crypto_aead_xform`` is set to zero. When IV length is greater or equal + to one it means it represents IV, when is set to zero it means J0 is used + directly, in this case 16 bytes of J0 need to be passed. + +* sched: To allow more traffic classes, flexible mapping of pipe queues to + traffic classes, and subport level configuration of pipes and queues + changes will be made to macros, data structures and API functions defined + in "rte_sched.h". These changes are aligned to improvements suggested in the + RFC https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-November/120035.html. + +* metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return + in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``. + +* power: ``rte_power_set_env`` function will no longer return 0 on attempt + to set new power environment if power environment was already initialized. + In this case the function will return -1 unless the environment is unset first + (using ``rte_power_unset_env``). Other function usage scenarios will not change.