X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Fdeprecation.rst;h=80f873de6676fed929abc96ae048fdfb0f4f3e58;hb=fe0bd9ee5da3fd52766458a5d0fa9a8728182be1;hp=b7d4e0e5e35004f1e27554133a0fcf19a45420a2;hpb=7f7dc833a05333cbebe36174ae35c285ec4ff50d;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index b7d4e0e5e3..80f873de66 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -8,31 +8,33 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here. Deprecation Notices ------------------- -* 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. - -* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_intr_handle, struct rte_eth_conf - and struct eth_dev_ops to support interrupt mode feature from release 2.1. - Those changes may be enabled in the release 2.1 with CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI. - -* The EAL function rte_eal_pci_close_one is deprecated because renamed to - rte_eal_pci_detach. - -* The Macros RTE_HASH_BUCKET_ENTRIES_MAX and RTE_HASH_KEY_LENGTH_MAX are - deprecated and will be removed with version 2.2. - -* Significant ABI changes are planned for struct rte_mbuf, struct rte_kni_mbuf, - and several ``PKT_RX_`` flags will be removed, to support unified packet type - from release 2.1. Those changes may be enabled in the upcoming release 2.1 - with CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI. - -* librte_malloc library has been integrated into librte_eal. The 2.1 release - creates a dummy/empty malloc library to fulfill binaries with dynamic linking - dependencies on librte_malloc.so. Such dummy library will not be created from - release 2.2 so binaries will need to be rebuilt. - -* The following fields have been deprecated in rte_eth_stats: - imissed, ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss, - tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff +* The log history is deprecated. + It is voided in 16.07 and will be removed in release 16.11. + +* The ethdev hotplug API is going to be moved to EAL with a notification + mechanism added to crypto and ethdev libraries so that hotplug is now + available to both of them. This API will be stripped of the device arguments + so that it only cares about hotplugging. + +* Structures embodying pci and vdev devices are going to be reworked to + integrate new common rte_device / rte_driver objects (see + http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-January/031390.html). + ethdev and crypto libraries will then only handle those objects so that they + do not need to care about the kind of devices that are being used, making it + easier to add new buses later. + +* ABI changes are planned for adding four new flow types. This impacts + RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes, + but release 2.3 will. [postponed] + +* ABI will change for rte_mempool struct to move the cache-related fields + to the more appropriate rte_mempool_cache struct. The mempool API is + also changed to enable external cache management that is not tied to EAL + threads. Some mempool get and put calls are removed in favor of a more + compact API. The ones that remain are backwards compatible and use the + per-lcore default cache if available. This change targets release 16.07. + +* The mbuf flags PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT and PKT_RX_QINQ_PKT are deprecated and + are respectively replaced by PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED and + PKT_RX_QINQ_STRIPPED, that are better described. The old flags and + their behavior will be kept in 16.07 and will be removed in 16.11.