From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Horman Subject: Re: [PATCH] abi: Announce abi changes plan for vhost-user multiple queues Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 06:36:41 -0400 Message-ID: <20150616103641.GA26752@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> References: <1434418723-20361-1-git-send-email-changchun.ouyang@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Ouyang Changchun Return-path: Received: from smtp.tuxdriver.com (charlotte.tuxdriver.com [70.61.120.58]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91EC4C312 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:36:55 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1434418723-20361-1-git-send-email-changchun.ouyang@intel.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 09:38:43AM +0800, Ouyang Changchun wrote: > It announces the planned ABI changes for vhost-user multiple queues feature on v2.2. > > Signed-off-by: Changchun Ouyang > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst > index f00a6ee..dc1b0eb 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst > @@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ Examples of Deprecation Notices > > Deprecation Notices > ------------------- > +* The ABI changes are planned for struct virtio_net in order to support vhost-user multiple queues feature. The upcoming release 2.1 will not contain these ABI changes, but release 2.2 will, and no backwards compatibility is planed due to the vhost-user multiple queues feature enabling. Binaries using this library build prior to version 2.2 will require updating and recompilation. > -- > 1.8.4.2 > > Acked-by: Neil Horman