[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] doc: announce ethdev CRC strip flag deprecation
Shahaf Shuler
shahafs at mellanox.com
Tue Apr 17 15:47:26 CEST 2018
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 4:40 PM, Ferruh Yigit:
> Subject: [PATCH v4] doc: announce ethdev CRC strip flag deprecation
>
> Make CRC stripping default behavior, deprecate flag
> DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>
> ---
> v2:
> * Make CRC behavior active in this release
>
> v3:
> * Distribute switch into next two releases for more smooth transition
> v18.08: add new flag to keep crc, and implement this in PMDs
> v18.11: remove crc strip flag and make default behavior to strip crc
>
> v4:
> * Remove git artifact
> ---
> doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index fd9def20c..dbc405450 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -100,6 +100,22 @@ Deprecation Notices
> between the VF representor and the VF or the parent PF. Those new fields
> are to be included in ``rte_eth_dev_info`` struct.
>
> +* ethdev: A new offloading flag ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEEP_CRC`` will be
> +added in v18.08,
> + This will replace the usage of not setting
> +``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP`` flag
> + and will be implemented in PMDs accordingly.
> + In v18.08 both ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEEP_CRC`` and
> +``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP`` flags
> + will be available, usage will be:
> + ``CRC_STRIP``: Strip CRC from packet
> + ``KEEP_CRC``: Keep CRC in packet
> + Both ``CRC_STRIP`` & ``KEEP_CRC``: Invalid
> + No flag: Keep CRC in packet
> +
> +* ethdev: In v18.11 ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP`` offload flag will be
> +removed, default
> + behavior without any flag will be changed to CRC strip.
> + To keep CRC ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEEP_CRC`` flag is required.
> + ``KEEP_CRC``: Keep CRC in packet
> + No flag: Strip CRC from packet
> +
> * i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first 16
> bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If
> required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow
> --
> 2.14.3
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
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