[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] doc: update deprecation of CIO barrier APIs

[Jerin Jacob]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 12:28 AM Honnappa Nagarahalli
<honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com> wrote:
>
> rte_cio_*mb APIs will be deprecated in 20.11 release.
>
> Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com>

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>


> ---
>  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 d1034f60f..59656da3d 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    These wrappers must be used for patches that need to be merged in 20.08
>    onwards. This change will not introduce any performance degradation.
>
> +* rte_cio_*mb: Since the IO barriers for ArmV8-a platforms are relaxed from DSB
> +  to DMB, rte_cio_*mb APIs provide the same functionality as rte_io_*mb
> +  APIs(taking all platforms into consideration). rte_io_*mb APIs should be used
> +  in the place of rte_cio_*mb APIs. The rte_cio_*mb APIs will be deprecated in
> +  20.11 release.
> +
>  * igb_uio: In the view of reducing the kernel dependency from the main tree,
>    as a first step, the Technical Board decided to move ``igb_uio``
>    kernel module to the dpdk-kmods repository in the /linux/igb_uio/ directory
> --
> 2.17.1
>