From 3baf80df84997dd0802dd9f49d7d97b7498c6438 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:21:39 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for hierarchical scheduler Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu Acked-by: Neil Horman --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index fb3c215a07..8e73cc30e9 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -61,3 +61,12 @@ Deprecation Notices * ABI changes are planned for struct virtio_net in order to support vhost-user multiple queues feature. It should be integrated in release 2.2 without backward compatibility. + +* The scheduler hierarchy structure (rte_sched_port_hierarchy) will change to + allow for a larger number of subport entries. + The number of available traffic_classes and queues may also change. + The mbuf structure element for sched hierarchy will also change from a single + 32 bit to a 64 bit structure. + +* The scheduler statistics structure will change to allow keeping track of + RED actions. -- 2.20.1