From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D28821B3AE for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2018 12:21:42 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: UNKNOWN X-Amp-Original-Verdict: FILE UNKNOWN X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga007.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.58]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 02 Nov 2018 04:21:41 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.54,455,1534834800"; d="scan'208";a="86177814" Received: from bricha3-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.237.221.107]) by orsmga007.jf.intel.com with SMTP; 02 Nov 2018 04:21:38 -0700 Received: by (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 02 Nov 2018 11:21:37 +0000 Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 11:21:37 +0000 From: Bruce Richardson To: Honnappa Nagarahalli Cc: pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org, gavin.hu@arm.com, dharmik.thakkar@arm.com, nd@arm.com, yipeng1.wang@intel.com, sameh.gobriel@intel.com Message-ID: <20181102112137.GD26868@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <20181101045454.632-2-honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com> <20181101232522.702-1-honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com> <20181101232522.702-5-honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181101232522.702-5-honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com> Organization: Intel Research and Development Ireland Ltd. User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] doc/hash: deprecate lock ellision and read/write concurreny flags 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: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 11:21:43 -0000 On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 06:25:22PM -0500, Honnappa Nagarahalli wrote: > RTE_HASH_EXTRA_FLAGS_RW_CONCURRENCY and > RTE_HASH_EXTRA_FLAGS_TRANS_MEM_SUPPORT configuration flags are > deprecated. Reader/Writer concurrency is provided by default. > Transactional memory will be used if the platform supports it. > > Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli > Reviewed-by: Dharmik Thakkar > Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index 34b28234c..d34cca260 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -55,3 +55,8 @@ Deprecation Notices > - ``rte_pdump_set_socket_dir`` will be removed; > - The parameter, ``path``, of ``rte_pdump_init`` will be removed; > - The enum ``rte_pdump_socktype`` will be removed. > + > +* hash: The configuration flags RTE_HASH_EXTRA_FLAGS_RW_CONCURRENCY and > + RTE_HASH_EXTRA_FLAGS_TRANS_MEM_SUPPORT will be removed in v19.02. > + Reader/writer concurrency will be supported by default. The library will > + use transactional memory if the platform supports it. > -- I think we need more documentation than this. The programmers guide also needs an update (probably in patch 2) to record the changes in the flags used on hash create. /Bruce