From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC545F43689 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:08:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1368F40668; Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:08:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mgamail.intel.com (mgamail.intel.com [198.175.65.12]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2060240662 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:08:16 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1776420497; x=1807956497; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to: references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HfotPmSrL1txFKd+X4xmZi8DTKZdwdKQqR9YCaQ3pZ8=; b=bSo33D+G1dXwluy94YQjIqZqoI7dP+IQnsSxSgntqmXjRborbAmZJDKq dBLESf51kop4JEUE3mlZXjfn2xOnXKLoIwoS1J+x7R5GKYI9mZOwu5Pst kJlcs96QHfVKunjwi8l0zBQWosbmFUVfrRwglUczTJOBicDESAgXY2Ja0 RxAYGaa0RZ44XeQsf/WSxzMIPslGHEnFg4oeAgsV3diBXlNh9JuAW7Slj Vif0j5LZLfgE0QBG/nCmN6VGXPhwtR2zfIKAsW7d6aBBPH7jj84RsT+iv 6esUnjGSph5DGGucfDHqfDz1bgcbNbOFrkT0PG5UXKnpH5aKYW/1OU3Iw w==; X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: TZN+JgcTThW2NGwc8HosJg== X-CSE-MsgGUID: uNCCvMcXTeedK1MljNjF8w== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6800,10657,11761"; a="88887893" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.23,184,1770624000"; d="scan'208";a="88887893" Received: from orviesa003.jf.intel.com ([10.64.159.143]) by orvoesa104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 17 Apr 2026 03:08:17 -0700 X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: 7/I/nnkgRumh1wkqBjIkiQ== X-CSE-MsgGUID: PH+EGbZGTsq/h6dJDMAkNQ== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.23,184,1770624000"; d="scan'208";a="234987836" Received: from silpixa00401921.ir.intel.com ([10.20.224.96]) by orviesa003.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 17 Apr 2026 03:08:16 -0700 From: Ciara Loftus To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Ciara Loftus Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: announce change to LLDP packet detection in iavf PMD Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:08:04 +0000 Message-ID: <20260417100804.1143121-4-ciara.loftus@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 In-Reply-To: <20260417100804.1143121-1-ciara.loftus@intel.com> References: <20260306115214.467033-1-ciara.loftus@intel.com> <20260417100804.1143121-1-ciara.loftus@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org The iavf PMD transmit paths currently use two methods to identify if an mbuf holds an LLDP packet: a dynamic mbuf field and the mbuf ptype. The ptype method is enabled via the enable_ptype_lldp devarg. A future release will remove the dynamic mbuf field approach at which point the ptype will be the only approach used. Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 35c9b4e06c..17f90a6352 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -154,3 +154,7 @@ Deprecation Notices * bus/vmbus: Starting DPDK 25.11, all the vmbus API defined in ``drivers/bus/vmbus/rte_bus_vmbus.h`` will become internal to DPDK. Those API functions are used internally by DPDK core and netvsc PMD. + +* net/iavf: The dynamic mbuf field used to detect LLDP packets on the + transmit path in the iavf PMD will be removed in a future release. + After removal, only packet type-based detection will be supported. -- 2.43.0