[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/2] doc: announce deprecation of refcnt atomic member

[David Marchand]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 6:37 AM Phil Yang <phil.yang at arm.com> wrote:
>
> refcnt_atomic member in structures rte_mbuf and rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info
> will be deprecated in 20.11 release.
>
> Suggested-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang at arm.com>
> Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at intel.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 a58a179..99c9806 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ 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 builtins 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
>

Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>


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David Marchand