From: John McNamara Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 15:24:23 +0000 (+0000) Subject: doc: announce behaviour change to i40e RSS X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~811 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=09dd01ad9a6823e23a5b97da7b93920a444870d4;p=dpdk.git doc: announce behaviour change to i40e RSS Add deprecation notice to highlight a future change in the default configuration behavior for flexible payload for RSS. Signed-off-by: John McNamara Acked-by: Andrey Chilikin --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 6d9517efa7..13e85432f5 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -45,5 +45,11 @@ Deprecation Notices Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most PMDs have switched to rte_flow. +* i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first 16 + bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If + required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow + director APIs. There is no ABI/API break. This change will just remove a + global configuration setting and require explicit configuration. + * librte_meter: The API will change to accommodate configuration profiles. Most of the API functions will have an additional opaque parameter.