From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from stargate3.asicdesigners.com (stargate.chelsio.com [12.32.117.8]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662F88E7C for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:01:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (scalar.blr.asicdesigners.com [10.193.185.94]) by stargate3.asicdesigners.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tBAE1ama020697; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:01:36 -0800 From: Rahul Lakkireddy To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:31:04 +0530 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.3 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Cc: Felix Marti , Kumar Sanghvi , Nirranjan Kirubaharan Subject: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 3/3] doc: announce ABI change for filtering support X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:01:39 -0000 Current filtering support will be enhanced to accommodate support for Chelsio T5 hardware filtering support. Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 1c7ab01..ca43b16 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -19,3 +19,9 @@ Deprecation Notices and table action handlers will be updated: the pipeline parameter will be added, the packets mask parameter will be either removed (for input port action handler) or made input-only. + +* The filtering support will be changed to add a new packet filter + flow, add a new behavior 'switch', add an ability to add mask + for fields in each filter rule, and add an ability to pass extra + arguments for the behavior taken to allow rewriting matched fields + in filter rule. -- 2.5.3