[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/2] doc: announce deprecation of refcnt atomic member
David Marchand
david.marchand at redhat.com
Fri Jul 17 16:35:56 CEST 2020
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 4:32 PM David Marchand
<david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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>
Bruce, Konstantin,
This precedes the first open source release so trying with you guys:
what is the purpose of the RTE_MBUF_REFCNT_ATOMIC build flag?
Thanks.
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David Marchand
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