[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change of rte_fdir_filter, rte_fdir_masks

Wenzhuo Lu wenzhuo.lu at intel.com
Thu Jul 9 04:47:29 CEST 2015


For x550 supports 2 new flow director modes, MAC VLAN and Cloud. There're several
new lookup fields for these 2 new modes, like MAC, tunnel type, TNI, VNI. So, we
have to change the ABI to support these new lookup fields.

Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst
index 110c486..eca4d2b 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ Examples of Deprecation Notices
 
 Deprecation Notices
 -------------------
+* The ABI changes are planned for struct rte_fdir_filter and rte_fdir_masks in order to support new flow director modes, MAC VLAN and Cloud on x550. The upcoming release 2.1 will not contain these ABI changes, but release 2.2 will, and no backwards compatibility is planed due to this change. Binaries using this library build prior to version 2.2 will require updating and recompilation.
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1.9.3



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