[dpdk-dev] [RFC] ethdev: change queue release callback

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 8/9/2021 3:39 PM, Singh, Aman Deep wrote:
> Hi Xueming,
> 
> On 7/28/2021 1:10 PM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
>> On 7/27/21 6:41 AM, Xueming Li wrote:
>>> To align with other eth device queue configuration callbacks, change RX
>>> and TX queue release callback API parameter from queue object to device
>>> and queue index.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
>>
>> In fact, there is no strong reasons to do it, but I think it is a nice
>> cleanup to use (dev + queue index) on control path.
>>
>> Hopefully it will not result in any regressions.
> 
> Combined there are 100+ API's for Rx/Tx queue_release that need to be modified
> for it.
> 
> I believe all regression possibilities here will be caught, in compilation phase
> itself.
> 

Same here, it is a good cleanup but there is no strong reason for it.

Since it is all internal, there is no ABI restriction on the patch, and v21.11
will be full ABI break patches, to not cause conflicts with this change, what
would you think to have it on v22.02?