From: Harry van Haaren Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 17:58:09 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: announce API change for extended stats X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~7029 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=534654ec59465cb4a011c25ca06a232499623a54;p=dpdk.git doc: announce API change for extended stats This patch adds a notice that the API for the xstats functionality will be modified in the 16.07 release, with no backwards compatibility planned as it would require code duplication in each PMD that supports xstats. Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: Remy Horton Acked-by: David Harton Acked-by: Maryam Tahhan --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index e49d9df505..4bdde69812 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ Deprecation Notices ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss, tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff +* The xstats API and rte_eth_xstats struct will be changed to allow retrieval + of values without any string copies or parsing. + No backwards compatibility is planned, as it would require code duplication + in every PMD that supports xstats. + * ABI changes are planned for adding four new flow types. This impacts RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes, but release 2.3 will. [postponed]