doc: announce change in crypto adapter metadata

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / deprecation.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index d9c0e65..4e8ce42 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * 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
@@ -32,6 +39,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
   ``__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
@@ -139,6 +151,39 @@ Deprecation Notices
   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.
+
+* 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 interface between library and drivers will be marked
+  as internal in DPDK 21.11.
+
+* 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
@@ -148,6 +193,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   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``.
 
@@ -158,3 +209,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * 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.