From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga07.intel.com (mga07.intel.com [134.134.136.100]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F5B4727F for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:47:19 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga006.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.51]) by orsmga105.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 11 Jan 2018 06:47:18 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,344,1511856000"; d="scan'208";a="10464750" Received: from silpixa00389036.ir.intel.com (HELO silpixa00389036.ger.corp.intel.com) ([10.237.223.231]) by orsmga006.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 11 Jan 2018 06:47:16 -0800 From: Kirill Rybalchenko To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com, andrey.chilikin@intel.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, thomas@monjalon.net Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:47:11 +0000 Message-Id: <1515682031-20152-1-git-send-email-kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.5 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: ethdev ABI change deprecation notice X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:47:19 -0000 Signed-off-by: Kirill Rybalchenko --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 13e8543..f0589ea 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ Deprecation Notices Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most PMDs have switched to rte_flow. +* ethdev: anounce ABI change + The size of variables flow_types_mask in rte_eth_fdir_info structure, + sym_hash_enable_mask and valid_bit_mask in rte_eth_hash_global_conf structure + will be increased from 32 to 64 bits to fulfill hardware requirements. + This change will break existing ABI as size of the structures will increase. + * i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first 16 bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow -- 2.5.5