From 97f17497d162afdb82c8704bf097f0fee3724b2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "C.J. Collier" Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 07:50:17 -0700 Subject: Imported Upstream version 16.04 Change-Id: I77eadcd8538a9122e4773cbe55b24033dc451757 Signed-off-by: C.J. Collier --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 92 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst (limited to 'doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst') diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..327fc2bf --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +ABI and API Deprecation +======================= + +See the :doc:`guidelines document for details of the ABI policy `. +API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here. + + +Deprecation Notices +------------------- + +* The ethdev hotplug API is going to be moved to EAL with a notification + mechanism added to crypto and ethdev libraries so that hotplug is now + available to both of them. This API will be stripped of the device arguments + so that it only cares about hotplugging. + +* Structures embodying pci and vdev devices are going to be reworked to + integrate new common rte_device / rte_driver objects (see + http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-January/031390.html). + ethdev and crypto libraries will then only handle those objects so that they + do not need to care about the kind of devices that are being used, making it + easier to add new buses later. + +* The EAL function pci_config_space_set is deprecated in release 16.04 + and will be removed from 16.07. + Macros CONFIG_RTE_PCI_CONFIG, CONFIG_RTE_PCI_EXTENDED_TAG and + CONFIG_RTE_PCI_MAX_READ_REQUEST_SIZE will be removed. + The /sys entries extended_tag and max_read_request_size created by igb_uio + will be removed. + +* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_pci_id, i.e., add new field ``class``. + This new added ``class`` field can be used to probe pci device by class + related info. This change should impact size of struct rte_pci_id and struct + rte_pci_device. The release 16.04 does not contain these ABI changes, but + release 16.07 will. + +* The following fields have been deprecated in rte_eth_stats: + ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss, + tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff + +* The xstats API and rte_eth_xstats struct will be changed to allow retrieval + of values without any string copies or parsing. + No backwards compatibility is planned, as it would require code duplication + in every PMD that supports xstats. + +* ABI changes are planned for adding four new flow types. This impacts + RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes, + but release 2.3 will. [postponed] + +* ABI change is planned for the rte_mempool structure to allow mempool + cache support to be dynamic depending on the mempool being created + needing cache support. Saves about 1.5M of memory per rte_mempool structure + by removing the per lcore cache memory. Change will occur in DPDK 16.07 + release and will skip the define RTE_NEXT_ABI in DPDK 16.04 release. The + code affected is app/test/test_mempool.c and librte_mempool/rte_mempool.[ch]. + The rte_mempool.local_cache will be converted from an array to a pointer to + allow for dynamic allocation of the per lcore cache memory. + +* ABI will change for rte_mempool struct to move the cache-related fields + to the more appropriate rte_mempool_cache struct. The mempool API is + also changed to enable external cache management that is not tied to EAL + threads. Some mempool get and put calls are removed in favor of a more + compact API. The ones that remain are backwards compatible and use the + per-lcore default cache if available. This change targets release 16.07. + +* The rte_mempool struct will be changed in 16.07 to facilitate the new + external mempool manager functionality. + The ring element will be replaced with a more generic 'pool' opaque pointer + to allow new mempool handlers to use their own user-defined mempool + layout. Also newly added to rte_mempool is a handler index. + The existing API will be backward compatible, but there will be new API + functions added to facilitate the creation of mempools using an external + handler. The 16.07 release will contain these changes. + +* The rte_mempool allocation will be changed in 16.07: + allocation of large mempool in several virtual memory chunks, new API + to populate a mempool, new API to free a mempool, allocation in + anonymous mapping, drop of specific dom0 code. These changes will + induce a modification of the rte_mempool structure, plus a + modification of the API of rte_mempool_obj_iter(), implying a breakage + of the ABI. + +* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_port_source_params in order to + support PCAP file reading feature. The release 16.04 contains this ABI + change wrapped by RTE_NEXT_ABI macro. Release 16.07 will contain this + change, and no backwards compatibility is planned. + +* A librte_vhost public structures refactor is planned for DPDK 16.07 + that requires both ABI and API change. + The proposed refactor would expose DPDK vhost dev to applications as + a handle, like the way kernel exposes an fd to user for locating a + specific file, and to keep all major structures internally, so that + we are likely to be free from ABI violations in future. -- cgit 1.2.3-korg