From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dispatch1-us1.ppe-hosted.com (dispatch1-us1.ppe-hosted.com [67.231.154.164]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26AA61B4EB for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 09:08:22 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Proofpoint Essentials engine Received: from webmail.solarflare.com (uk.solarflare.com [193.34.186.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1-us1.ppe-hosted.com (Proofpoint Essentials ESMTP Server) with ESMTPS id 2B145B00069; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 08:08:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.38.17] (91.220.146.112) by ukex01.SolarFlarecom.com (10.17.10.4) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1395.4; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 08:08:13 +0000 To: Ferruh Yigit , Ian Stokes , CC: , Qi Zhang , "Shahaf Shuler" , Alejandro Lucero , Rahul Lakkireddy References: <1542888549-24656-1-git-send-email-ian.stokes@intel.com> <30f1a1d5-e38e-c933-e0d0-9800b2470706@intel.com> From: Andrew Rybchenko Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 11:08:08 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <30f1a1d5-e38e-c933-e0d0-9800b2470706@intel.com> Content-Language: en-GB X-Originating-IP: [91.220.146.112] X-ClientProxiedBy: ocex03.SolarFlarecom.com (10.20.40.36) To ukex01.SolarFlarecom.com (10.17.10.4) X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-12.5.0.1300-8.5.1010-24240.003 X-TM-AS-Result: No-11.525600-8.000000-10 X-TMASE-MatchedRID: u7Yf2n7Ca/0OwH4pD14DsPHkpkyUphL99uT35pz6g+9b8pv4L0h+IsHE vaXJv8qtsXw476/Y7/BEGWnnNJpRiynPugGsN3p5wVaayvK71l9T4DtiSkMnWN0FiLYyWp27DWI 1DnlsVGvtv621pFOfHrO9i5FesTRZlyrPeDQDh/LAJnGRMfFxyYv8pidhVYOUB4sIhfTjqIFKsl M7VUaEwXb4Bm7FqQnLz1+7FJCqpLLIDWKFjjZHby+PrAd8gbHJCFEIkVv1y6x5UICQcvBF4/gW4 8LNyEdg6JzUl/+Ir1EOjb0PL1TpnN9faxl/I4mhngIgpj8eDcC063Wh9WVqgtQdB5NUNSsiV0Hs VO4KIjCOhzOa6g8KrZiJoFqBTgfNVAs0dP1XIX1QZDeDKKUMAt/qt00Y2kTaS3TbH2z/GMvm5Nu Orx1M8uapahJ+rMc/sA8jiOwOWA5OnfTXMLdOvmgGZNLBHGNe X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: Yes X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No X-TMASE-Result: 10--11.525600-8.000000 X-TMASE-Version: SMEX-12.5.0.1300-8.5.1010-24240.003 X-MDID: 1542960501-pawBdLwNcGTD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/1] doc: announce ethdev ABI change for rte_eth_dev_info. 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: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 08:08:23 -0000 On 11/22/18 9:27 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > On 11/22/2018 12:09 PM, Ian Stokes wrote: >> Maximum and minimum MTU values vary between hardware devices. In >> hardware agnostic DPDK applications access to such information would >> allow a more accurate way of validating and setting supported MTU values on >> a per device basis rather than using a defined default for all devices. >> >> The following solution was proposed: >> >> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-September/110959.html >> >> This patch adds a depreciation notice for ``rte_eth_dev_info`` as new >> members will be added to represent min and max MTU values. These can be >> added to fit a hole in the existing structure for amd64 but not for 32 bit, >> as such ABI change will occur as size of the structure will be impacted. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko