From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8D6A052B; Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:23:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1431BE9A; Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:23:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga18.intel.com (mga18.intel.com [134.134.136.126]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C2F4C93 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:23:33 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-SDR: p1cQc2jcbFtGhnynslPFbTXCVpVxXdr6Lt93UjX0I3M8zImuj5O+ExgzNuE8FpsTFfzDyPB0Bj dlV2jRJEhW4g== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9696"; a="138915144" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.75,409,1589266800"; d="scan'208";a="138915144" X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga006.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.20]) by orsmga106.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 29 Jul 2020 02:23:32 -0700 IronPort-SDR: Cx48l9ii4bz074kXouruciJT6+qJW+lUiSBgVj0FFKoGXczO54DybxCNpEUUFjJrLSjp97wnOc Rvu8v6hvlw9Q== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.75,409,1589266800"; d="scan'208";a="490232243" Received: from jhsinnig-mobl1.amr.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.213.196.51]) ([10.213.196.51]) by fmsmga006.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 29 Jul 2020 02:23:31 -0700 To: Stephen Hemminger , dev@dpdk.org References: <20200604210200.25405-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> <20200727192015.26418-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> <20200727192015.26418-2-stephen@networkplumber.org> From: "Burakov, Anatoly" Message-ID: <91d8c7d4-2b86-eb51-aa98-a476092cb056@intel.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:23:31 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200727192015.26418-2-stephen@networkplumber.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 20.08 1/6] doc: announce deprecation of master lcore 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: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 27-Jul-20 8:20 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Announce upcoming changes related to master/slave in reference > to lcore. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index 99c98062ffc2..31a2b942fba5 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -148,3 +148,20 @@ Deprecation Notices > Python 2 support will be completely removed in 20.11. > In 20.08, explicit deprecation warnings will be displayed when running > scripts with Python 2. > + > +* eal: To be more inclusive in choice of naming, the DPDK project > + will replace uses of master/slave in the API's and command line arguments. > + > + References to master/slave in relation to lcore will be renamed > + to initial/worker. The function ``rte_get_master_lcore()`` > + will be renamed to ``rte_get_initial_lcore()``. > + For the 20.11, release both names will be present and the > + old function will be marked with the deprecated tag. > + The old function will be removed in 21.11 version. > + > + The macros related to primary and secondary lcore will also > + be change: ``RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE`` will be replaced ^^ I think this was supposed to be either "will also change" or "will also be changed", but got mashed together :) > + with ``RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_WORKER``. > + > + The ``master-lcore`` argument to testpmd will be replaced > + with ``initial-lcore``. > -- Thanks, Anatoly