From: Olivier Matz Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:05:11 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: announce ABI changes for mempool allocation X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~7082 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8d9043a8527293c978661795742075255db5e355;p=dpdk.git doc: announce ABI changes for mempool allocation Add a deprecation notice for coming changes in mempool for 16.07. Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: David Hunt Acked-by: Keith Wiles --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index ad313558b7..8b3794bff5 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -40,3 +40,11 @@ Deprecation Notices The existing API will be backward compatible, but there will be new API functions added to facilitate the creation of mempools using an external handler. The 16.07 release will contain these changes. + +* The rte_mempool allocation will be changed in 16.07: + allocation of large mempool in several virtual memory chunks, new API + to populate a mempool, new API to free a mempool, allocation in + anonymous mapping, drop of specific dom0 code. These changes will + induce a modification of the rte_mempool structure, plus a + modification of the API of rte_mempool_obj_iter(), implying a breakage + of the ABI.