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Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 8/9] doc: add deprecation notice for EAL
command line options
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Options --no-shconf and --huge-unlink will be removed, and
replaced with --in-memory option, which will be a superset
of these two, and an offially support method to run DPDK
entirely in memory.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
---
Notes:
RFC->v1:
- Add this patch
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 5de59833d..dd1b5c5d8 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here.
Deprecation Notices
-------------------
+* eal: command-line options ``--no-shconf`` and ``--huge-unlink`` will be
+ removed, and replaced with a single option ``--in-memory``, which will
+ enable DPDK to operate entirely in memory, without creating any files on any
+ filesystems.
+
* eal: DPDK runtime configuration file (located at
``/var/run/.<prefix>_config``) will be moved. The new path will be as follows:
--
2.17.1