From: Thomas Monjalon Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 07:14:55 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: announce ABI change for link speed X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~7723 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ea1340ee3cabbccaa325da52097c60adcf057770;p=dpdk.git doc: announce ABI change for link speed A rework was prepared by Marc Sune: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-October/026037.html The goal is to retrieve the supported link speed of a device and to allow 100G devices while having a consistent API. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: Olga Shern Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil Acked-by: Jan Viktorin Acked-by: Matej Vido --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index a4abb08955..f8a41dda8e 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Deprecation Notices ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss, tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff +* The ethdev structures rte_eth_link, rte_eth_dev_info and rte_eth_conf + must be updated to support 100G link and to have a cleaner link speed API. + * ABI changes is planned for the reta field in struct rte_eth_rss_reta_entry64 which handles at most 256 entries (8 bits) while newer NICs support larger tables (512 entries).