From 7f85b2679b1dabf37504b1429434a8f385d29d43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timothy McDaniel Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 12:55:35 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce eventdev ABI change to support DLB PMD The ABI changes associated with this notification will better support devices that: 1. Have limits on the number or queues that may be linked to a port 2. Have ports that are limited to exactly one linked queue 3. Are not able to transparently transfer the event flow_id field Signed-off-by: Timothy McDaniel Acked-by: Harry van Haaren Acked-by: Jerin Jacob Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 52c9b9a25f..86a1ecb0b8 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -151,6 +151,19 @@ Deprecation Notices 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. +* eventdev: Following structures will be modified to support DLB PMD + and future extensions: + + - ``rte_event_dev_info`` + - ``rte_event_dev_config`` + - ``rte_event_port_conf`` + + Patches containing justification, documentation, and proposed modifications + can be found at: + + - https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/71457/ + - https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/71456/ + * rawdev: The rawdev APIs which take a device-specific structure as parameter directly, or indirectly via a "private" pointer inside another structure, will be modified to take an additional parameter of the -- 2.20.1