From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A2EFA84 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:02:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from fmsmga005.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.32]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Feb 2017 09:02:23 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.35,137,1484035200"; d="scan'208";a="63154917" Received: from dhunt5-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.221.69]) ([10.237.221.69]) by fmsmga005.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 09 Feb 2017 09:02:22 -0800 To: Ferruh Yigit , Thomas Monjalon References: <1486368509-59989-1-git-send-email-david.hunt@intel.com> <0b17338f-4453-5ca5-06b8-2e8c9d972680@intel.com> Cc: dev@dpdk.org, bruce.richardson@intel.com From: "Hunt, David" Message-ID: <365f7928-9143-19da-9467-0a5fe2c9c7f5@intel.com> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 17:02:21 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0b17338f-4453-5ca5-06b8-2e8c9d972680@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] doc: add distributor library API change notice 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: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 17:02:25 -0000 On 9/2/2017 2:20 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > On 2/6/2017 8:08 AM, David Hunt wrote: >> Given that the packet distributor library improvements (1) will >> not be in 17.02, I plan on doing some consolidation of the >> API for burst operation for 17.05, merging the two api's into >> one, with options for single or burst operation. >> >> (1) http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/19911/ >> >> Signed-off-by: David Hunt >> --- >> 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 755dc65..925e156 100644 >> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst >> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst >> @@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ Deprecation Notices >> and will be removed in 17.02. >> It is replaced by ``rte_mempool_generic_get/put`` functions. >> >> +* lib: distributor library API will be changed to incorporate a burst- >> + oriented API. This will include a change to ``rte_distributor_create`` >> + to specify which type of instance to create (single or burst), and >> + additional calls for ``rte_poll_pkt_burst`` and ``rte_return_pkt_burst``, >> + among others. > Should new APIs (rte_poll_pkt_burst & rte_return_pkt_burst) have > "rte_distributor_" name space? Apart from this: > > Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit > Ferruh, Thanks for the third Ack. Thomas, Would you prefer me to re-spin the patch after inserting "_distributor" into the two function names, or would you be so good as to do it during the merge? Regards, Dave.