[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: ethdev ABI change deprecation notice

Kovacevic, Marko marko.kovacevic at intel.com
Fri Jan 12 11:19:25 CET 2018


> Signed-off-by: Kirill Rybalchenko <kirill.rybalchenko at intel.com>

> +* ethdev: anounce ABI change
                       ^^^^^^^^
One small typo announce

> +  The size of variables flow_types_mask in rte_eth_fdir_info structure,
> +  sym_hash_enable_mask and valid_bit_mask in rte_eth_hash_global_conf
> structure
> +  will be increased from 32 to 64 bits to fulfill hardware requirements.
> +  This change will break existing ABI as size of the structures will increase.
> +
>  * 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

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