doc: announce mempool API changes
authorAndrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:23:04 +0000 (13:23 +0000)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:32:00 +0000 (16:32 +0100)
commitc96caf64c26cf180ea66ff1fba31fa25348ead68
tree2acd5a837022e885c843659276d64e053b316253
parent74915174b45158f11179261e75f3ea7363e668d7
doc: announce mempool API changes

An API/ABI changes are planned for 18.05 [1]:

 * Allow to customize how mempool objects are stored in memory.
 * Deprecate mempool XMEM API.
 * Add mempool driver ops to get information from mempool driver and
   dequeue contiguous blocks of objects if driver supports it.

[1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-January/088698.html

Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst