RE: [PATCH] doc: announce changes to event vector structure

["McDaniel, Timothy" <timothy.mcdaniel@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 9:57 AM
> To: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: announce changes to event vector structure
> 
> Tip to get more reviews: add interested maintainers in Cc.
> Adding Jay, Erik, Abhinandan, Timothy, Hemant, Harry, Mattias and Liang.
> 
> 
> 11/07/2022 16:56, Jerin Jacob:
> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 5:01 PM <pbhagavatula@marvell.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
> > >
> > > The structure ``rte_event_vector`` will be modified to include
> > > ``elem_offset:12`` bits taken from ``rsvd:15``.
> > > The ``elem_offset`` defines the offset into the vector array from
> > > which valid elements are present.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
> >
> >
> > Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
> >
> >
> > > ---
> > >  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > > index 4e5b23c53d..d7933629f2 100644
> > > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > > @@ -125,3 +125,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
> > >    applications should be updated to use the ``dmadev`` library instead,
> > >    with the underlying HW-functionality being provided by the ``ioat`` or
> > >    ``idxd`` dma drivers
> > > +
> > > +* eventdev: The structure ``rte_event_vector`` will be modified to include
> > > +  ``elem_offset:12`` bits taken from ``rsvd:15``. The ``elem_offset`` defines
> > > +  the offset into the vector array from which valid elements are present.
> > > +  The difference between ``rte_event_vector::nb_elem`` and
> > > +  ``rte_event_vector::elem_offset`` gives the number of valid elements left
> to
> > > +  process from the ``rte_event_vector::elem_offset``.
> > > --
> > > 2.25.1
> > >

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Timothy McDaniel <timothy.mcdaniel@intel.com>