X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Fdeprecation.rst;h=f502f86375a6bf5f140bfe89e0a1f272fa43fecd;hb=a0fd91cefcc054b770dec6d8fb60db0d3145c45a;hp=1f47e3dd973d8b576fe4291550696194e0f17fbf;hpb=f71c7fc0b9c73ce6e7057bdf5eb1815c1d26e7e8;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 1f47e3dd97..f502f86375 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -8,56 +8,36 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here. Deprecation Notices ------------------- -* 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: - imissed, 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_cfgfile: In order to allow for longer names and values, - the value of macros CFG_NAME_LEN and CFG_NAME_VAL will be increased. - Most likely, the new values will be 64 and 256, respectively. - -* librte_port: Macros to access the packet meta-data stored within the - packet buffer will be adjusted to cover the packet mbuf structure as well, - as currently they are able to access any packet buffer location except the - packet mbuf structure. - -* 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. +* The log history is deprecated. + It is voided in 16.07 and will be removed in release 16.11. + +* The ethdev hotplug API is going to be moved to EAL with a notification + mechanism added to crypto and ethdev libraries so that hotplug is now + available to both of them. This API will be stripped of the device arguments + so that it only cares about hotplugging. + +* Structures embodying pci and vdev devices are going to be reworked to + integrate new common rte_device / rte_driver objects (see + http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-January/031390.html). + ethdev and crypto libraries will then only handle those objects so that they + do not need to care about the kind of devices that are being used, making it + easier to add new buses later. + +* 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. [postponed] + +* 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 in 16.07 and will be removed in 16.11. + +* The APIs rte_mempool_count and rte_mempool_free_count are being deprecated + on the basis that they are confusing to use - free_count actually returns + the number of allocated entries, not the number of free entries as expected. + They are being replaced by rte_mempool_avail_count and + rte_mempool_in_use_count respectively. + +* The mempool functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated and + will be removed in 16.11. + It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions.