[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] doc: announce deprecation of refcnt atomic member

Ruifeng Wang Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com
Fri Jul 10 04:55:54 CEST 2020


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Yang <phil.yang at arm.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 11:59 PM
> To: olivier.matz at 6wind.com; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: stephen at networkplumber.org; david.marchand at redhat.com;
> drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com; Honnappa Nagarahalli
> <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com>; Ruifeng Wang
> <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com>; nd <nd at arm.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v4 2/2] doc: announce deprecation of refcnt atomic member
> 
> refcnt_atomic member in structures rte_mbuf and
> rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info will be deprecated in 20.11 release.
The plan should be deprecate it in 20.08 release and remove it in 20.11 release.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang at arm.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 74f8c34..7225570 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -123,6 +123,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    in "rte_sched.h". These changes are aligned to improvements suggested in
> the
>    RFC https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-November/120035.html.
> 
> +* mbuf: ``refcnt_atomic`` member in structures ``rte_mbuf`` and
> +  ``rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info`` is of type ``rte_atomic16_t``. Due to
> +adoption
> +  of C11 atomic built-ins it will be of type ``uint16_t``.
> +``refcnt_atomic``
> +  will be removed in 20.11. It will be replaced with ``refcnt`` of type
> +  ``uint16_t``.
> +
>  * metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return
>    in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.
> 
> --
> 2.7.4



More information about the dev mailing list