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From: "Kinsella, Ray" <mdr@ashroe.eu>
To: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>,
	Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>,
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	Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>,
	"harry.van.haaren@intel.com" <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>,
	Shijith Thotton <sthotton@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: [PATCH] doc: announce modification in eventdev structure
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 10:36:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c55625bd-267f-509b-47cd-82fa0087455f@ashroe.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MW2PR18MB22842FEC3EBEC5683EDBE31BD85B9@MW2PR18MB2284.namprd18.prod.outlook.com>



On 03/05/2021 12:18, Akhil Goyal wrote:
> Hi Ray,
>>> @@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
>>>    values to the function ``rte_event_eth_rx_adapter_queue_add`` using
>>>    the structure ``rte_event_eth_rx_adapter_queue_add``.
>>>
>>> +* eventdev: The function pointer ``ca_enqueue`` in structure
>> ``rte_eventdev``
>>> +  will be moved after ``txa_enqueue`` so that all enqueue/dequeue
>>> +  function pointers are adjacent to each other.
>>> +
>>>  * sched: To allow more traffic classes, flexible mapping of pipe queues to
>>>    traffic classes, and subport level configuration of pipes and queues
>>>    changes will be made to macros, data structures and API functions
>> defined
>>>
>>
>> I admire the disipline - but since you are not actually removing ca_enqueue,
>> just moving it in memory when the new ABI is declared in anycase, this is not
>> required.
>>
> 
> Does it mean we can move elements in a structure without giving deprecation notice?
> 

well if memory serves - you aren't depreciating the field, just moving it, right?
And you are aligning the change with an ABI break in anycase - so I think it is all good.

Ray K

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-04  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-15  9:08 [dpdk-dev] " gakhil
2021-04-18  9:11 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-04-23 10:53 ` Kinsella, Ray
2021-05-03 11:18   ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Akhil Goyal
2021-05-04  9:36     ` Kinsella, Ray [this message]
2021-05-07  9:17       ` Jerin Jacob

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