doc: announce sched API change

Add deprecation note for making changes in data structures, APIs
and macros in order to have more traffic classes, flexible
mapping of pipe queues to traffic classes, subport level
configuration of pipes and queues, etc. These changes are aligned
to improvements suggested in the RFC-
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-November/120035.html

Signed-off-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>
Acked-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index f2279eb..ed8284c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -99,5 +99,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
   to one it means it represents IV, when is set to zero it means J0 is used
   directly, in this case 16 bytes of J0 need to be passed.
 
+* sched: To allow more traffic classes, flexible mapping of pipe queues to
+  traffic classes, and subport level configuration of pipes and queues
+  changes will be made to macros, data structures and API functions defined
+  in "rte_sched.h". These changes are aligned to improvements suggested in the
+  RFC https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-November/120035.html.
+
 * metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return
   in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.