* eal: The function ``rte_eal_remote_launch`` will return new error codes
after read or write error on the pipe, instead of calling ``rte_panic``.
+* eal: The lcore state ``FINISHED`` will be removed from
+ the ``enum rte_lcore_state_t``.
+ The lcore state ``WAIT`` is enough to represent the same state.
+
+* eal: Making ``struct rte_intr_handle`` internal to avoid any ABI breakages
+ in future.
+
* rte_atomicNN_xxx: These APIs do not take memory order parameter. This does
not allow for writing optimized code for all the CPU architectures supported
in DPDK. DPDK has adopted the atomic operations from
``__atomic_thread_fence`` must be used for patches that need to be merged in
20.08 onwards. This change will not introduce any performance degradation.
+* mbuf: The mbuf offload flags ``PKT_*`` will be renamed as ``RTE_MBUF_F_*``.
+ A compatibility layer will be kept until DPDK 22.11, except for the flags
+ that are already deprecated (``PKT_RX_L4_CKSUM_BAD``, ``PKT_RX_IP_CKSUM_BAD``,
+ ``PKT_RX_EIP_CKSUM_BAD``, ``PKT_TX_QINQ_PKT``) which will be removed.
+
+* pci: To reduce unnecessary ABIs exposed by DPDK bus driver, "rte_bus_pci.h"
+ will be made internal in 21.11 and macros/data structures/functions defined
+ in the header will not be considered as ABI anymore. This change is inspired
+ by the RFC https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=17176.
+
* lib: will fix extending some enum/define breaking the ABI. There are multiple
samples in DPDK that enum/define terminated with a ``.*MAX.*`` value which is
used by iterators, and arrays holding these values are sized with this
us extending existing enum/define.
One solution can be using a fixed size array instead of ``.*MAX.*`` value.
+* ethdev: Will add ``RTE_ETH_`` prefix to all ethdev macros/enums in v21.11.
+ Macros will be added for backward compatibility.
+ Backward compatibility macros will be removed on v22.11.
+ A few old backward compatibility macros from 2013 that does not have
+ proper prefix will be removed on v21.11.
+
* ethdev: The flow director API, including ``rte_eth_conf.fdir_conf`` field,
and the related structures (``rte_fdir_*`` and ``rte_eth_fdir_*``),
will be removed in DPDK 20.11.
can still be used if users specify the devarg "driver=i40evf". I40evf will
be deleted in DPDK 21.11.
+* net: ``s_addr`` and ``d_addr`` fields of ``rte_ether_hdr`` structure
+ will be renamed in DPDK 21.11 to avoid conflict with Windows Sockets headers.
+
+* net: The structure ``rte_ipv4_hdr`` will have two unions.
+ The first union is for existing ``version_ihl`` byte
+ and new bitfield for version and IHL.
+ The second union is for existing ``fragment_offset``
+ and new bitfield for fragment flags and offset.
+
+* vhost: ``rte_vdpa_register_device``, ``rte_vdpa_unregister_device``,
+ ``rte_vhost_host_notifier_ctrl`` and ``rte_vdpa_relay_vring_used`` vDPA
+ driver interface will be marked as internal in DPDK v21.11.
+
+* vhost: The experimental tags of ``rte_vhost_driver_get_protocol_features``,
+ ``rte_vhost_driver_get_queue_num``, ``rte_vhost_crypto_create``,
+ ``rte_vhost_crypto_free``, ``rte_vhost_crypto_fetch_requests``,
+ ``rte_vhost_crypto_finalize_requests``, ``rte_vhost_crypto_set_zero_copy``,
+ ``rte_vhost_va_from_guest_pa``, ``rte_vhost_extern_callback_register``,
+ and ``rte_vhost_driver_set_protocol_features`` functions will be removed
+ and the API functions will be made stable in DPDK 21.11.
+
+* compressdev: ``min`` and ``max`` fields of ``rte_param_log2_range`` structure
+ will be renamed in DPDK 21.11 to avoid conflict with Windows Sockets headers.
+
+* cryptodev: ``min`` and ``max`` fields of ``rte_crypto_param_range`` structure
+ will be renamed in DPDK 21.11 to avoid conflict with Windows Sockets headers.
+
+* cryptodev: The field ``dataunit_len`` of the ``struct rte_crypto_cipher_xform``
+ has a limited size ``uint16_t``.
+ It will be moved and extended as ``uint32_t`` in DPDK 21.11.
+
+* cryptodev: The structure ``rte_crypto_sym_vec`` would be updated to add
+ ``dest_sgl`` to support out of place processing.
+ This field will be null for inplace processing.
+ This change is targeted for DPDK 21.11.
+
+* cryptodev: The structure ``rte_crypto_vec`` would be updated to add
+ ``tot_len`` to support total buffer length.
+ This is required for security cases like IPsec and PDCP encryption offload
+ to know how much additional memory space is available in buffer other than
+ data length so that driver/HW can write expanded size data after encryption.
+ This change is targeted for DPDK 21.11.
+
+* cryptodev: The interface between library and drivers will be marked
+ as internal in DPDK 21.11.
+
+* security: Hide structure ``rte_security_session`` and expose an opaque
+ pointer for the private data to the application which can be attached
+ to the packet while enqueuing.
+
+* security: The IPsec configuration structure
+ ``struct rte_security_ipsec_xform`` will be updated with new members to allow
+ SA lifetime configuration. A new structure would be introduced to replace the
+ current member, ``esn_soft_limit``.
+
+* security: The IPsec SA config options ``struct rte_security_ipsec_sa_options``
+ will be updated with new fields to support new features like IPsec inner
+ checksum, tunnel header verification, TSO in case of protocol offload.
+
+* eventdev: The file ``rte_eventdev_pmd.h`` will be renamed to ``eventdev_driver.h``
+ to make the driver interface as internal and the structures ``rte_eventdev_data``,
+ ``rte_eventdev`` and ``rte_eventdevs`` will be moved to a new file named
+ ``rte_eventdev_core.h`` in DPDK 21.11.
+ The ``rte_`` prefix for internal structures and functions will be removed across the
+ library.
+ The experimental eventdev trace APIs and ``rte_event_vector_pool_create``,
+ ``rte_event_eth_rx_adapter_vector_limits_get`` will be promoted to stable.
+ An 8-byte reserved field will be added to the structure ``rte_event_timer`` to
+ support future extensions.
+
* eventdev: The structure ``rte_event_eth_rx_adapter_queue_conf`` will be
extended to include ``rte_event_eth_rx_adapter_event_vector_config`` elements
and the function ``rte_event_eth_rx_adapter_queue_event_vector_config`` will
values to the function ``rte_event_eth_rx_adapter_queue_add`` using
the structure ``rte_event_eth_rx_adapter_queue_add``.
+* eventdev: Reserved bytes of ``rte_event_crypto_request`` is a space holder
+ for ``response_info``. Both should be decoupled for better clarity.
+ New space for ``response_info`` can be made by changing
+ ``rte_event_crypto_metadata`` type to structure from union.
+ This change is targeted for DPDK 21.11.
+
* metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return
in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.
* security: The functions ``rte_security_set_pkt_metadata`` and
``rte_security_get_userdata`` will be made inline functions and additional
flags will be added in structure ``rte_security_ctx`` in DPDK 21.11.
+
+* cryptodev: The structure ``rte_crypto_op`` would be updated to reduce
+ reserved bytes to 2 (from 3), and use 1 byte to indicate warnings and other
+ information from the crypto/security operation. This field will be used to
+ communicate events such as soft expiry with IPsec in lookaside mode.
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