- ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count``
- ``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str``, replaced by ``rte_eal_devargs_parse``
-* eal: the support of Xen dom0 will be removed from EAL in 17.11; and with
- that, drivers/net/xenvirt and examples/vhost_xen will also be removed.
-
* eal: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 to make DPDK aware of IOVA address
translation scheme.
Reference to phys address in EAL data-structure or functions may change to
PKT_RX_QINQ_STRIPPED, that are better described. The old flags and
their behavior will be kept until 17.08 and will be removed in 17.11.
-* mempool: The following will be modified in 17.11:
-
- - ``rte_mempool_xmem_size`` and ``rte_mempool_xmem_usage`` need to know
- the mempool flag status so adding new param rte_mempool in those API.
- - Removing __rte_unused int flag param from ``rte_mempool_generic_put``
- and ``rte_mempool_generic_get`` API.
- - ``rte_mempool`` flags data type will changed from int to
- unsigned int.
-
* ethdev: Tx offloads will no longer be enabled by default in 17.11.
Instead, the ``rte_eth_txmode`` structure will be extended with
bit field to enable each Tx offload.
done by the EAL and not by the ``ethdev`` layer anymore. Users relying on this
flag being present only have to remove their checks to follow the change.
-* ethdev: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 for the structure rte_eth_dev_data.
- The size of the unique name will increase RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN from 32 to
- 64 characters to allow using a globally unique identifier (GUID) in this field.
-
* ethdev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and
``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info`` and
``rte_eth_dev`` respectively to support security operations like
- ``rte_cryptodev_vdev_pmd_init``
-* cryptodev: the following function will have an extra parameter, passing a
- statically allocated crypto driver structure, instead of calling malloc,
- in 17.11:
-
- - ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver``
-
* librte_meter: The API will change to accommodate configuration profiles.
Most of the API functions will have an additional opaque parameter.