From 242b46b814725df6215c0df5f751e9d814f12af9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yongseok Koh Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 18:20:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce removal of indirect mbuf check macro Link: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-April/099476.html Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko Acked-by: Olivier Matz Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++ lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index d2dd302db6..ff28f7d5ca 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -52,6 +52,13 @@ Deprecation Notices is defined in librte_sched in a non-generic way. The new generic format will contain: queue ID, traffic class, color. Field size will not change. +* mbuf: the macro ``RTE_MBUF_INDIRECT()`` will be removed in v18.08 or later and + replaced with ``RTE_MBUF_CLONED()`` which is already added in v18.05. As + ``EXT_ATTACHED_MBUF`` is newly introduced in v18.05, ``RTE_MBUF_INDIRECT()`` + can no longer be mutually exclusive with ``RTE_MBUF_DIRECT()`` if the new + experimental API ``rte_pktmbuf_attach_extbuf()`` is used. Removal of the macro + is to fix this semantic inconsistency. + * 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. diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h index e136d12b74..8e6b4d2923 100644 --- a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h +++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h @@ -738,7 +738,8 @@ rte_mbuf_to_baddr(struct rte_mbuf *md) #define RTE_MBUF_CLONED(mb) ((mb)->ol_flags & IND_ATTACHED_MBUF) /** - * Returns TRUE if given mbuf is indirect, or FALSE otherwise. + * Deprecated. + * Use RTE_MBUF_CLONED(). */ #define RTE_MBUF_INDIRECT(mb) RTE_MBUF_CLONED(mb) -- 2.20.1