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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ethdev port freeing on close operation
@ 2020-08-04  9:20 Thomas Monjalon
  2020-08-04  9:22 ` Jerin Jacob
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Monjalon @ 2020-08-04  9:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev
  Cc: david.marchand, jerinj, arybchenko, ferruh.yigit, stephen,
	ajit.khaparde, matan, linville, qi.z.zhang, shepard.siegel,
	igor.russkikh, rmody, chas3, rahul.lakkireddy, hemant.agrawal,
	g.singh, grive, cristian.dumitrescu, keith.wiles, beilei.xing,
	jingjing.wu, cardigliano, rosen.xu, sthotton, heinrich.kuhn

Since DPDK 18.11, some drivers are migrating to a new behaviour,
releasing port resources on close.
The temporary flag RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE triggers this new mode
in the migrated drivers.
After 2 years, the flag and the old behaviour will be removed.
Last drivers not migrated will have to complete the switch.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
---
 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 ea4cfa7a48..b5e8045d00 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   - ``rte_eth_dev_stop``
   - ``rte_eth_dev_close``
 
+* ethdev: The temporary flag RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE will be removed in 20.11.
+  As a consequence, the new behaviour introduced in 18.11 will be effective
+  for all drivers: generic port resources are freed on close operation.
+  Private resources are expected to be released in the ``dev_close`` callback.
+  More details in http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/5248162.j6AOsuQRmx@thomas/
+
 * ethdev: New offload flags ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_FLOW_MARK`` will be added in 19.11.
   This will allow application to enable or disable PMDs from updating
   ``rte_mbuf::hash::fdir``.
-- 
2.27.0


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