From: Shahaf Shuler Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:24:14 +0000 (+0300) Subject: doc: update deprecation of ethdev offload API X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~835 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3004d3454192;p=dpdk.git doc: update deprecation of ethdev offload API Update deprecation notice for the new ethdev offloads API. Deprecation of the old offloads API is set to 18.05. Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index a89a3942f0..6d9517efa7 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -28,12 +28,14 @@ Deprecation Notices - ``eal_parse_pci_DomBDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse`` - ``rte_eal_compare_pci_addr`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_cmp`` -* 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. - Besides of making the Rx/Tx configuration API more consistent for the - application, PMDs will be able to provide a better out of the box performance. - As part of the work, ``ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NO*`` will be superseded as well. +* 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. + The old offloads API is target to be deprecated on 18.05. This includes: + + - removal of ``ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NO*`` flags. + - removal of ``txq_flags`` field from ``rte_eth_txconf`` struct. + - removal of the offloads bit-field from ``rte_eth_rxmode`` struct. * ethdev: the legacy filter API, including ``rte_eth_dev_filter_supported()``, ``rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl()`` as well