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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API and ABI change for ethdev
@ 2017-07-12  7:58 Zhiyong Yang
  2017-08-04  1:12 ` Tan, Jianfeng
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Zhiyong Yang @ 2017-07-12  7:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev, zhihong.wang; +Cc: john.mcnamara, oilvier.matz, thomas, Zhiyong Yang

  This is an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 17.11 on redefinition of
port_id. port_id is defined as uint8_t by now, which is just ranged
from 0 to 255. For more and more scenerioes, more than 256 devices are
needed to support for vdev scalability.

  It is necessary for redefinition of port_id to extend from 1 bytes
to 2 bytes. All ethdev APIs and use cases related to port_id will be
changed at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 257dcba..f265980 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
   Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
   PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
 
+* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.11 in the "rte_eth_dev_data" structure.
+  Change the definition of port_id from 8bits to 16bits in order to support
+  more than 256 devices in DPDK.
+
 * librte_table: The ``key_mask`` parameter will be added to all the hash tables
   that currently do not have it, as well as to the hash compute function prototype.
   The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed
-- 
2.9.3

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2017-08-04  1:12 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-08-04  4:07 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-08-04  4:13   ` Jerin Jacob
2017-08-04  5:36   ` Yang, Zhiyong
2017-08-04  5:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Zhiyong Yang
2017-08-04  6:56   ` Remy Horton
2017-08-05 10:34     ` Yang, Zhiyong
2017-08-07  3:07       ` Yang, Zhiyong
2017-08-07 11:04         ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-07 15:20     ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-07 12:42   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Zhiyong Yang
2017-08-08  4:02     ` Yang, Zhiyong
2017-08-08  9:35       ` Thomas Monjalon

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