From 0ab44211c73c2d189bf45fdf8c4aad105873fc27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shreyansh Jain Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 11:52:22 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce ethdev API change for preferred burst size rte_eth_rx_burst(..,nb_pkts) function has semantic that if return value is smaller than requested, application can consider it end of packet stream. Some hardware can only support smaller burst sizes which need to be advertised. Similar is the case for Tx burst. This patch adds deprecation notice for rte_eth_dev_info structure as new members, for preferred Rx and Tx burst and ring size would be added - impacting the size of the structure. Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko Acked-by: Bruce Richardson Acked-by: Zhiyong Yang Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 149bf23ccc..05436b2149 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -115,6 +115,19 @@ Deprecation Notices The new API add rss_level field to ``rte_eth_rss_conf`` to enable a choice of RSS hash calculation on outer or inner header of tunneled packet. +* ethdev: Currently, if the rte_eth_rx_burst() function returns a value less + than *nb_pkts*, the application will assume that no more packets are present. + Some of the hw queue based hardware can only support smaller burst for RX + and TX and thus break the expectation of the rx_burst API. Similar is the + case for TX burst as well as ring sizes. ``rte_eth_dev_info`` will be added + with following new parameters so as to support semantics for drivers to + define a preferred size for Rx/Tx burst and rings. + + - Member ``struct preferred_size`` would be added to enclose all preferred + size to be fetched from driver/implementation. + - Members ``uint16_t rx_burst``, ``uint16_t tx_burst``, ``uint16_t rx_ring``, + and ``uint16_t tx_ring`` would be added to ``struct preferred_size``. + * i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first 16 bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow -- 2.20.1