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

[Ajit Khaparde]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 11:58 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: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.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
>
>