[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: cleanup flow mark Rx offload deprecation notice

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Tue Nov 2 14:47:31 CET 2021


On 11/2/2021 12:50 PM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> The problem is solved using Rx metadata delivery negotiation API [1].
> 

Can this API replace RX_OFFLOAD_RSS_HASH too?

> [1] commit f6d8a6d3fad7 ("ethdev: negotiate delivery of packet metadata from HW to PMD")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru>
> ---
>   doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 --------
>   1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 4366015b01..ec5073908f 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -69,14 +69,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
>     and the related structures (``rte_fdir_*`` and ``rte_eth_fdir_*``),
>     will be removed in DPDK 20.11.
>   
> -* ethdev: New offload flags ``RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_FLOW_MARK`` will be added in 19.11.
> -  This will allow application to enable or disable PMDs from updating
> -  ``rte_mbuf::hash::fdir``.
> -  This scheme will allow PMDs to avoid writes to ``rte_mbuf`` fields on Rx and
> -  thereby improve Rx performance if application wishes do so.
> -  In 19.11 PMDs will still update the field even when the offload is not
> -  enabled.
> -
>   * ethdev: Announce moving from dedicated modify function for each field,
>     to using the general ``rte_flow_modify_field`` action.
>   
> 



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