Re: [PATCH RFC 2/4] vhost: make buf vector for scatter RX local.

[Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>]

On 19.02.2016 10:06, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 09:32:41AM +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>> Array of buf_vector's is just an array for temporary storing information
>> about available descriptors. It used only locally in virtio_dev_merge_rx()
>> and there is no reason for that array to be shared.
>>
>> Fix that by allocating local buf_vec inside virtio_dev_merge_rx().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
>> ---
>>  lib/librte_vhost/rte_virtio_net.h |  1 -
>>  lib/librte_vhost/vhost_rxtx.c     | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>>  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/rte_virtio_net.h b/lib/librte_vhost/rte_virtio_net.h
>> index 10dcb90..ae1e4fb 100644
>> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/rte_virtio_net.h
>> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/rte_virtio_net.h
>> @@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ struct vhost_virtqueue {
>>  	int			kickfd;			/**< Currently unused as polling mode is enabled. */
>>  	int			enabled;
>>  	uint64_t		reserved[16];		/**< Reserve some spaces for future extension. */
>> -	struct buf_vector	buf_vec[BUF_VECTOR_MAX];	/**< for scatter RX. */
>>  } __rte_cache_aligned;
> 
> I like this kind of cleanup, however, it breaks ABI.

Should I prepare version of this patch with field above marked as
deprecated and add note to doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
about future deletion?

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.