Deprecation Notices
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+* eal: DPDK runtime configuration file (located at
+ ``/var/run/.<prefix>_config``) will be moved. The new path will be as follows:
+
+ - if DPDK is running as root, path will be set to
+ ``/var/run/dpdk/<prefix>/config``
+ - if DPDK is not running as root and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set, path will be set
+ to ``$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/dpdk/<prefix>/config``
+ - if DPDK is not running as root and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set, path will be
+ set to ``/tmp/dpdk/<prefix>/config``
+
* eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in v18.05.
New functions will appear to query a specific port from buses, classes of
device and device drivers. Device declaration will be made coherent with the
mempool names have been defined in ``rte_mbuf`` in v18.02. The uses of
``rte_eal_mbuf_default_mempool_ops`` shall be replaced by
``rte_mbuf_best_mempool_ops``.
- The following function is now redundant and it is target to be deprecated
- in 18.05:
+ The following function is deprecated since 18.05, and will be removed
+ in 18.08:
- ``rte_eal_mbuf_default_mempool_ops``
Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
-* i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first 16
- bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If
- required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow
- director APIs. There is no ABI/API break. This change will just remove a
- global configuration setting and require explicit configuration.
-
* pdump: As we changed to use generic IPC, some changes in APIs and structure
are expected in subsequent release.
``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_stop()`` will be deprecated from 18.05
and removed in 18.08, as there are no drivers doing anything useful
with them.
+ - Some feature flags such as ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_MBUF_SCATTER_GATHER`` are ambiguous,
+ so some will be replaced by more explicit flags.
+ - Function ``rte_cryptodev_get_header_session_size()`` will be deprecated
+ in 18.05, and it gets replaced with ``rte_cryptodev_sym_get_header_session_size()``.
+ It will be removed in 18.08.
+ - Function ``rte_cryptodev_get_private_session_size()`` will be deprecated
+ in 18.05, and it gets replaced with ``rte_cryptodev_sym_get_private_session_size()``.
+ It will be removed in 18.08.