doc: announce API changes for mempool
authorSantosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:29:15 +0000 (15:59 +0530)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Tue, 8 Aug 2017 00:07:13 +0000 (02:07 +0200)
commitc9357901704ec5697a2e9918d273e6f2542a0bfd
tree79a8ed55a762b95f1dc3d912b9a272f7aa92256b
parentcaa570db61307e07efc461cf558ec291a3e71b29
doc: announce API changes for mempool

An API/ABI change is planned for 17.11 to change following

* Remove unused flag param from rte_mempool_generic_get and _put.
* Change data type for mempool 'flag' from int to unsigned int.
  Refer [1].
* Add struct rte_mempool * param into func rte_mempool_xmem_size,
  rte_mempool_xmem_usage to make it mempool aware.
  Refer [2].

[1] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/25603/
[2] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/25605/

Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst