Deprecation Notices
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-* Significant ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_dev to support up to
- 1024 queues per port. This change will be in release 2.2.
- There is no backward compatibility planned from release 2.2.
- All binaries will need to be rebuilt from release 2.2.
-
* The following fields have been deprecated in rte_eth_stats:
- imissed, ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
+ ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff
-* API for flow director filters has been replaced by rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl.
- Following old API is deprecated and will be removed with version 2.2 without
- backward compatibility.
- Functions: rte_eth_dev_fdir_*.
- Structures: rte_fdir_*, rte_eth_fdir.
- Enums: rte_l4type, rte_iptype.
-
* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_fdir_flow_ext in order to support
flow director filtering in VF. The release 2.1 does not contain these ABI
changes, but release 2.2 will, and no backwards compatibility is planned.
* The scheduler statistics structure will change to allow keeping track of
RED actions.
-* librte_cfgfile: In order to allow for longer names and values,
- the value of macros CFG_NAME_LEN and CFG_NAME_VAL will be increased.
- Most likely, the new values will be 64 and 256, respectively.
-
-* librte_port: Macros to access the packet meta-data stored within the
- packet buffer will be adjusted to cover the packet mbuf structure as well,
- as currently they are able to access any packet buffer location except the
- packet mbuf structure.
-
-* librte_table LPM: A new parameter to hold the table name will be added to
- the LPM table parameter structure.
-
* librte_table: New functions for table entry bulk add/delete will be added
to the table operations structure.