From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kirill Rybalchenko Subject: [PATCH] doc: ethdev ABI change deprecation notice Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:47:11 +0000 Message-ID: <1515682031-20152-1-git-send-email-kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com> Cc: kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com, andrey.chilikin@intel.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, thomas@monjalon.net To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga07.intel.com (mga07.intel.com [134.134.136.100]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F5B4727F for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:47:19 +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" Signed-off-by: Kirill Rybalchenko --- 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 13e8543..f0589ea 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ Deprecation Notices Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most PMDs have switched to rte_flow. +* ethdev: anounce ABI change + The size of variables flow_types_mask in rte_eth_fdir_info structure, + sym_hash_enable_mask and valid_bit_mask in rte_eth_hash_global_conf structure + will be increased from 32 to 64 bits to fulfill hardware requirements. + This change will break existing ABI as size of the structures will increase. + * 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 -- 2.5.5