From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John McNamara Subject: [PATCH v1] i40e: highlight change to flexible payload for RSS config Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 15:24:23 +0000 Message-ID: <1509722663-29971-1-git-send-email-john.mcnamara@intel.com> Cc: kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com, andrey.chilikin@intel.com, John McNamara To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C0791B6A4 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2017 16:24:31 +0100 (CET) List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Add deprecation notice to highlight a future change in the default configuration behavior for flexible payload for RSS. Signed-off-by: John McNamara --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index a93c3e1..9e9caa6 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -67,3 +67,9 @@ Deprecation Notices * librte_meter: The API will change to accommodate configuration profiles. Most of the API functions will have an additional opaque parameter. + +* 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 + director APIs. There is no ABI/API break. This change will just remove a + global configuration setting and require explicit configuration. -- 2.7.5