doc: announce EAL ABI change for NUMA node count

There will be a new function added in v18.05 that will return
number of detected sockets, which will change the ABI.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jonas Pfefferle <pepperjo@japf.ch>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 5e559f1..d827438 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
   success and failure, respectively.  This will change to 1 and 0 for true and
   false, respectively, to make use of the function more intuitive.
 
+* eal: new ``numa_node_count`` member will be added to ``rte_config`` structure
+  in v18.05.
+
 * ethdev: a new Tx and Rx offload API was introduced on 17.11.
   In the new API, offloads are divided into per-port and per-queue offloads.
   Offloads are disabled by default and enabled per application request.