RE: [PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS

[Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 7:48 PM Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 09:39:15AM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > > On 7/12/2023 11:18 AM, Sivaprasad Tummala wrote:
> > > > To allow new cpu features to be added without ABI breakage,
> > > > RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS will be removed in DPDK 23.11 release.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Sivaprasad Tummala <sivaprasad.tummala@amd.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++
> > > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > > > b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > > > index 8e1cdd677a..92db59d9c2 100644
> > > > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > > > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > > > @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
> > > >    the replacement API rte_thread_set_name and
> rte_thread_create_control being
> > > >    marked as stable, and planned to be removed by the 23.11 release.
> > > >
> > > > +* eal: RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS will be removed in DPDK 23.11
> > > > +release. This is
> > > > +  to allow new cpu features to be added without ABI breakage.
> > > > +
> > > >  * rte_atomicNN_xxx: These APIs do not take memory order parameter.
> This does
> > > >    not allow for writing optimized code for all the CPU architectures
> supported
> > > >    in DPDK. DPDK has adopted the atomic operations from
> > >
> > > +techboard,
> > >
> > > Request for review/ack, patch is to remove ABI restriction to add
> > > new CPU flags.
> >
> > Acked-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>