From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from proxy.6wind.com (host.76.145.23.62.rev.coltfrance.com [62.23.145.76]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D0712C61 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:05:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from glumotte.dev.6wind.com (unknown [10.16.0.195]) by proxy.6wind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C662B617 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:04:53 +0100 (CET) From: Olivier Matz To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:05:11 +0100 Message-Id: <1458205511-29688-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz@6wind.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.4 In-Reply-To: <1457540381-20274-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz@6wind.com> References: <1457540381-20274-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz@6wind.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: mempool ABI deprecation notice for 16.07 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, 17 Mar 2016 09:05:36 -0000 Add a deprecation notice for coming changes in mempool for 16.07. Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 252a096..3e8e327 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -33,3 +33,11 @@ Deprecation Notices * ABI changes are planned for adding four new flow types. This impacts RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes, but release 2.3 will. + +* librte_mempool: new fixes and features will be added in 16.07: + allocation of large mempool in several virtual memory chunks, new API + to populate a mempool, new API to free a mempool, allocation in + anonymous mapping, drop of specific dom0 code. These changes will + induce a modification of the rte_mempool structure, plus a + modification of the API of rte_mempool_obj_iter(), implying a breakage + of the ABI. -- 2.1.4