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 427F2F9B5F5 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:16:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD7F40661; Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:16:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mgamail.intel.com (mgamail.intel.com [198.175.65.12]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A14440651 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:16:26 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1776849386; x=1808385386; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to: references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HfotPmSrL1txFKd+X4xmZi8DTKZdwdKQqR9YCaQ3pZ8=; b=dZaRfstLtNMLVkzMUkMbUfF/EcOkh8WeVPhN9krG6dzMhyw2rg5QxIRQ gshOpMPm0Itp/TUuDiWdV87CATlbf4ZQvYAk/qfGrz7lKM7yDlzd/X/ci F8njuBIWIMPCfxw01RJ2ie0LwLVwXta754ZBqdaotVOcKFpOyzsNUC1Ge GX1O2Y/u+L4GyEFb78dq0BVHdmSPHJ3TdIDL4RCCIbFDly3/3X0RoqlFU YVHCwnlV1UqKaZ2M03wJtd1f+USgRxVBquwsb/duDygE53d2kpgShz5Zu fcU2leKv3wEbq2oS6Ho5CdNPLN4b1NEOtERv308/uj7Ta/XtdKaopONbi A==; X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: gq5s/KtUSDaVoRkc4Hz0QQ== X-CSE-MsgGUID: 87aKtOMJR06QxEcTcgdCuw== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6800,10657,11763"; a="89266810" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.23,192,1770624000"; d="scan'208";a="89266810" Received: from fmviesa008.fm.intel.com ([10.60.135.148]) by orvoesa104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 22 Apr 2026 02:16:25 -0700 X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: VqkaTh47SUytVSj/RBGfAw== X-CSE-MsgGUID: xkBWqpFuTyi3wDtbjgLGZQ== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.23,192,1770624000"; d="scan'208";a="229631857" Received: from silpixa00401921.ir.intel.com ([10.20.224.96]) by fmviesa008.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 22 Apr 2026 02:16:25 -0700 From: Ciara Loftus To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Ciara Loftus Subject: [PATCH v5 3/3] doc: announce change to LLDP packet detection in iavf PMD Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:16:09 +0000 Message-ID: <20260422091609.1797686-4-ciara.loftus@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 In-Reply-To: <20260422091609.1797686-1-ciara.loftus@intel.com> References: <20260417105610.1161242-4-ciara.loftus@intel.com> <20260422091609.1797686-1-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