From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140D529B6 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:55:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Mar 2016 03:55:51 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.24,315,1455004800"; d="scan'208";a="667007456" Received: from sie-lab-214-251.ir.intel.com (HELO silpixa373510.ir.intel.com) ([10.237.214.251]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Mar 2016 03:55:51 -0800 From: David Hunt To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:55:40 +0000 Message-Id: <1457610940-119284-1-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.0 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add mempool mgr ABI deprication notice X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:55:52 -0000 Announce the ABI breakage due to addition of external mempool manager functionality which requires changes to rte_mempool structure. Signed-off-by: David Hunt --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 9930b5a..263e652 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -39,3 +39,13 @@ Deprecation Notices and table action handlers will be updated: the pipeline parameter will be added, the packets mask parameter will be either removed (for input port action handler) or made input-only. + +* librte_mempool: The rte_mempool struct will be changed in 16.07 to + facilitate the new external mempool manager functionality. + The ring element will be replaced with a more generic 'pool' opaque pointer + to allow new mempool handlers to use their own user-defined mempool + layout. Also newly added to rte_mempool is a handler index. + The existing API will be backward compatible, but there will be new API + functions added to facilitate the creation of mempools using an external + handler. The 16.07 release will contain these changes. + -- 2.5.0