X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Fdeprecation.rst;h=4e4d97b7e6ee6deacec951af10ba29ca57f5586e;hb=8316b9816b797fd2a65957f85bcebf924b4ed578;hp=11a9d0925b15fc2dfa82bd4c3472e710395de658;hpb=b17def6c2b74c92d5d888988cf4d9665b054fed9;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 11a9d0925b..4e4d97b7e6 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -29,9 +29,6 @@ Deprecation Notices - ``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 @@ -44,15 +41,6 @@ Deprecation Notices 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. @@ -76,16 +64,6 @@ Deprecation Notices 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. -* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.11 in all structures which include port_id - definition such as "rte_eth_dev_data", "rte_port_ethdev_reader_params", - "rte_port_ethdev_writer_params", and so on. The definition of port_id will be - changed from 8 bits to 16 bits in order to support more than 256 ports in - DPDK. All APIs which have port_id parameter will be changed at the same time. - -* 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 @@ -112,6 +90,9 @@ Deprecation Notices - ``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. + * librte_table: The ``key_mask`` parameter will be added to all the hash tables that currently do not have it, as well as to the hash compute function prototype. The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed