From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Santosh Shukla Subject: [PATCH v2] doc: announce API/ABI changes for mempool Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:59:15 +0530 Message-ID: <20170720102915.14497-1-santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com> References: <20170713091231.13314-1-santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: thomas.monjalon@6wind.com, Santosh Shukla To: olivier.matz@6wind.com, dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from NAM03-DM3-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-dm3nam03on0074.outbound.protection.outlook.com [104.47.41.74]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88A37231E for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2017 12:29:46 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20170713091231.13314-1-santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" An API/ABI change is planned for 17.11 to change following * Remove unused flag param from rte_mempool_generic_get and _put. * Change data type for mempool 'flag' from int to unsigned int. Refer [1]. * Add struct rte_mempool * param into func rte_mempool_xmem_size, rte_mempool_xmem_usage to make it mempool aware. Refer [2]. [1] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/25603/ [2] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/25605/ Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla --- v1 --> v2: - Changed the title. - Added empty line between 'mempool:' and - ``. (Both suggested by Olivier) 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 257dcba32..1345b0e65 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -64,3 +64,12 @@ Deprecation Notices be removed in 17.11: - ``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str``, replaced by ``rte_eal_devargs_parse`` + +* mempool: The following will be modified in 17.11: + + - ``rte_mempool_xmem_size`` and ``rte_mempool_xmem_usage`` need to know + the mempool flag status so adding new param rte_mempool in those API. + - Removing __rte_unused int flag param from ``rte_mempool_generic_put`` + and ``rte_mempool_generic_get`` API. + - ``rte_mempool`` flags data type will changed from int to + unsigned int. -- 2.11.0