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

[Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>]

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
>