From 064518f68d48fa53a0869346a50af5fda912fb90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Gabriel Carrillo Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:45:35 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce EAL API change to lcore role function This an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 18.05 announcing a change in the meaning of the return values of the rte_lcore_has_role() function. Signed-off-by: Erik Gabriel Carrillo Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit Acked-by: Harry van Haaren Acked-by: Pavan Nikhilesh Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 07312f59a0..5e559f19e3 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ Deprecation Notices - ``eal_parse_pci_DomBDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse`` - ``rte_eal_compare_pci_addr`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_cmp`` +* eal: The semantics of the return value for the ``rte_lcore_has_role`` function + are planned to change in v18.05. The function currently returns 0 and <0 for + success and failure, respectively. This will change to 1 and 0 for true and + false, respectively, to make use of the function more intuitive. + * 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. -- 2.20.1