X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Fdeprecation.rst;h=dfcca87ab95aa19b196a1b40662f974929d6f899;hb=7009e931d63188719a2e6b0329e9d2a796a2d7fa;hp=65076acb13ab0b2c93c238fe5b9fc5259be5d470;hpb=6355f123705d4180123b6793fef30372b9b7f9f3;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 65076acb13..dfcca87ab9 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ Deprecation Notices structure would be made internal (or removed if all dependencies are cleared) in future releases. +* mempool: starting from v20.05, the API of rte_mempool_populate_iova() + and rte_mempool_populate_virt() will change to return 0 instead + of -EINVAL when there is not enough room to store one object. The ABI + will be preserved until 20.11. + * 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, @@ -59,13 +64,12 @@ Deprecation Notices - ``rte_eth_dev_stop`` - ``rte_eth_dev_close`` -* ethdev: New offload flags ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_RSS_HASH`` and - ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_FLOW_MARK`` will be added in 19.11. +* ethdev: New offload flags ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_FLOW_MARK`` will be added in 19.11. This will allow application to enable or disable PMDs from updating - ``rte_mbuf::hash::rss`` and ``rte_mbuf::hash::fdir`` respectively. + ``rte_mbuf::hash::fdir``. This scheme will allow PMDs to avoid writes to ``rte_mbuf`` fields on Rx and thereby improve Rx performance if application wishes do so. - In 19.11 PMDs will still update the fields even when the offloads are not + In 19.11 PMDs will still update the field even when the offload is not enabled. * cryptodev: support for using IV with all sizes is added, J0 still can