From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:21:39 +0000 (-0700) Subject: doc: announce ABI change for hierarchical scheduler X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~8520 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3baf80df84997dd0802dd9f49d7d97b7498c6438;p=dpdk.git doc: announce ABI change for hierarchical scheduler Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu Acked-by: Neil Horman --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index fb3c215a07..8e73cc30e9 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -61,3 +61,12 @@ Deprecation Notices * ABI changes are planned for struct virtio_net in order to support vhost-user multiple queues feature. It should be integrated in release 2.2 without backward compatibility. + +* The scheduler hierarchy structure (rte_sched_port_hierarchy) will change to + allow for a larger number of subport entries. + The number of available traffic_classes and queues may also change. + The mbuf structure element for sched hierarchy will also change from a single + 32 bit to a 64 bit structure. + +* The scheduler statistics structure will change to allow keeping track of + RED actions.