doc: announce queue stats moving to xstats

[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 11f0ef1..ff39243 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -123,13 +123,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
   ``rte_eth_dev_l2_tunnel_offload_set`` which were not marked as deprecated,
   will be removed in DPDK 20.11.
 
-* ethdev: Update API functions returning ``void`` to return ``int`` with
-  negative errno values to indicate various error conditions (e.g.
-  invalid port ID, unsupported operation, failed operation):
-
-  - ``rte_eth_dev_stop``
-  - ``rte_eth_dev_close``
-
 * ethdev: New offload flags ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_FLOW_MARK`` will be added in 19.11.
   This will allow application to enable or disable PMDs from updating
   ``rte_mbuf::hash::fdir``.
@@ -138,11 +131,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
   In 19.11 PMDs will still update the field even when the offload is not
   enabled.
 
-* ethdev: Add new fields to ``rte_eth_rxconf`` to configure the receiving
-  queues to split ingress packets into multiple segments according to the
-  specified lengths into the buffers allocated from the specified
-  memory pools. The backward compatibility to existing API is preserved.
-
 * ethdev: ``rx_descriptor_done`` dev_ops and ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_done``
   will be removed in 21.11.
   Existing ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_status`` and ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status``
@@ -154,10 +142,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   as deprecated in DPDK 20.11, along with the associated macros ``ETH_MIRROR_*``.
   This API will be fully removed in DPDK 21.11.
 
-* ethdev: The ``struct rte_flow_item_eth`` and ``struct rte_flow_item_vlan``
-  structs will be modified, to include an additional value, indicating existence
-  or absence of a VLAN header following the current header, as proposed in RFC
-  https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-August/177536.html.
+* ethdev: Queue specific stats fields will be removed from ``struct rte_eth_stats``.
+  Mentioned fields are: ``q_ipackets``, ``q_opackets``, ``q_ibytes``, ``q_obytes``,
+  ``q_errors``.
+  Instead queue stats will be received via xstats API. Current method support
+  will be limited to maximum 256 queues.
+  Also compile time flag ``RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS`` will be removed.
 
 * security: The API ``rte_security_session_create`` takes only single mempool
   for session and session private data. So the application need to create