[dpdk-dev] Urgent - Fwd: [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for link speed

[Jan Viktorin]

Matej is aware of those changes (towards 100G) and we were discussing
this extension already. Great to see that this topic is moving on.

Jan

On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:56:47 +0100
Viktor Puš <pus at cesnet.cz> wrote:

> CCing to Jan in case Matej is offline today - can you ack this?
> 
> Best,
> Viktor
> 
> > On 15 Dec 2015, at 11:42, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Please, are you available to allow 100G in next DPDK release?
> > It must be accepted before releasing 2.2 (today).
> > Thanks
> > 
> > 2015-12-15 08:31, Thomas Monjalon:  
> >> Please ack ASAP to reach 3 acks before the release (in the coming hours).
> >> Thanks a lot
> >> 
> >> -----------------------------------
> >> 
> >> Objet : [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for link speed
> >> Date : mardi 15 décembre 2015, 08:21:14
> >> De : Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> >> À : dev at dpdk.org
> >> CC : Marc Sune <marcdevel at gmail.com>, Olga Shern <olgas at mellanox.com>, Matej Vido <matejvido at gmail.com>
> >> 
> >> A rework was prepared by Marc Sune:
> >> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-October/026037.html
> >> The goal is to retrieve the supported link speed of a device
> >> and to allow 100G devices while having a consistent API.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> >> ---
> >> doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++
> >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> >> index a4abb08..f8a41dd 100644
> >> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> >> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> >> @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
> >>   ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
> >>   tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff
> >> 
> >> +* The ethdev structures rte_eth_link, rte_eth_dev_info and rte_eth_conf
> >> +  must be updated to support 100G link and to have a cleaner link speed API.
> >> +
> >> * ABI changes is planned for the reta field in struct rte_eth_rss_reta_entry64
> >>   which handles at most 256 entries (8 bits) while newer NICs support larger
> >>   tables (512 entries).
> >>   
> 



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