From: Olivier Matz Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 14:34:57 +0000 (+0200) Subject: doc: announce behavior change for device NUMA node field X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2b481ba59a471a9488eb63d10435b700e2968f9f;p=dpdk.git doc: announce behavior change for device NUMA node field The dev->device.numa_node field is set by the bus driver for each device it manages to indicate on which NUMA node this device lies. When this information is unknown, the assigned value is not consistent accross the bus drivers. In v22.11, the value will be set to -1 in this case. Link: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20211026090610.10823-1-houssem.bouhlel@6wind.com/ Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 4e5b23c53d..7855d8df25 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -125,3 +125,9 @@ Deprecation Notices applications should be updated to use the ``dmadev`` library instead, with the underlying HW-functionality being provided by the ``ioat`` or ``idxd`` dma drivers + +* bus: The ``dev->device.numa_node`` field is set by the bus driver for + each device it manages to indicate on which NUMA node this device + lies. When this information is unknown, the assigned value is not + consistent accross the bus drivers. In v22.11, the value will be set + to -1 in this case.