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{ "id": 27429, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/patches/27429/?format=api", "web_url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20170804052753.35535-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com/", "project": { "id": 1, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/projects/1/?format=api", "name": "DPDK", "link_name": "dpdk", "list_id": "dev.dpdk.org", "list_email": "dev@dpdk.org", "web_url": "http://core.dpdk.org", "scm_url": "git://dpdk.org/dpdk", "webscm_url": "http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk", "list_archive_url": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev", "list_archive_url_format": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/{}", "commit_url_format": "" }, "msgid": "<20170804052753.35535-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com>", "list_archive_url": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20170804052753.35535-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com", "date": "2017-08-04T05:27:53", "name": "[dpdk-dev,v2] doc: announce API and ABI change for ethdev", "commit_ref": null, "pull_url": null, "state": "superseded", "archived": true, "hash": "b2979317a9d7a69245cda3526defd1a4b04ad150", "submitter": { "id": 540, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/people/540/?format=api", "name": "Yang, Zhiyong", "email": "zhiyong.yang@intel.com" }, "delegate": null, "mbox": "http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20170804052753.35535-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com/mbox/", "series": [], "comments": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/patches/27429/comments/", "check": "success", "checks": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/patches/27429/checks/", "tags": {}, "related": [], "headers": { "Return-Path": "<dev-bounces@dpdk.org>", "X-Original-To": "patchwork@dpdk.org", "Delivered-To": "patchwork@dpdk.org", "Received": [ "from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1])\n\tby dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE902C19;\n\tFri, 4 Aug 2017 07:28:01 +0200 (CEST)", "from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115])\n\tby dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBBA62C16\n\tfor <dev@dpdk.org>; Fri, 4 Aug 2017 07:27:58 +0200 (CEST)", "from fmsmga006.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.20])\n\tby fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384;\n\t03 Aug 2017 22:27:57 -0700", "from unknown (HELO dpdk5.bj.intel.com) ([172.16.182.182])\n\tby fmsmga006.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 03 Aug 2017 22:27:56 -0700" ], "X-ExtLoop1": "1", "X-IronPort-AV": "E=Sophos;i=\"5.41,319,1498546800\"; d=\"scan'208\";a=\"136007655\"", "From": "Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>", "To": "dev@dpdk.org", "Cc": "jianfeng.tan@intel.com, yliu@fridaylinux.org,\n\tjerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com, thomas@monjalon.net,\n\tZhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>", "Date": "Fri, 4 Aug 2017 13:27:53 +0800", "Message-Id": "<20170804052753.35535-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com>", "X-Mailer": "git-send-email 2.13.3", "In-Reply-To": "<20170712075846.14834-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com>", "References": "<20170712075846.14834-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com>", "Subject": "[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce API and ABI change for ethdev", "X-BeenThere": "dev@dpdk.org", "X-Mailman-Version": "2.1.15", "Precedence": "list", "List-Id": "DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org>", "List-Unsubscribe": "<http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>,\n\t<mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe>", "List-Archive": "<http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/>", "List-Post": "<mailto:dev@dpdk.org>", "List-Help": "<mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help>", "List-Subscribe": "<http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>,\n\t<mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe>", "Errors-To": "dev-bounces@dpdk.org", "Sender": "\"dev\" <dev-bounces@dpdk.org>" }, "content": "This is an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 17.11 on redefinition of\nport_id. port_id is defined as uint8_t by now, which is just ranged\nfrom 0 to 255. For more and more scenerioes, more than 256 ports are\nneeded to support for vdev scalability.\n\nIt is necessary for redefinition of port_id to extend from 1 bytes\nto 2 bytes. All ethdev APIs and use cases related to port_id will be\nchanged at the same time.\n\ncc: jianfeng.tan@intel.com\ncc: yliu@fridaylinux.org\ncc: jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com\ncc: thomas@monjalon.net\n\nSigned-off-by: Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>\nAcked-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>\nAcked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>\nAcked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>\n---\n\nChange in V2.\n1. remove indent of paragraph in commit log.\n2. add more description about API/ABI according to yuanhan's comments.\n\n doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++\n 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)", "diff": "diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst\nindex 72aa40495..4edaf92fb 100644\n--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst\n+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst\n@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ Deprecation Notices\n Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most\n PMDs have switched to rte_flow.\n \n+* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.11 in all structures which include port_id\n+ definition such as \"rte_eth_dev_data\", \"rte_port_ethdev_reader_params\",\n+ \"rte_port_ethdev_writer_params\", and so on. The definition of port_id will be\n+ changed from 8 bits to 16 bits in order to support more than 256 ports in\n+ DPDK. All APIs which have port_id parameter will be changed at the same time.\n+\n * librte_table: The ``key_mask`` parameter will be added to all the hash tables\n that currently do not have it, as well as to the hash compute function prototype.\n The non-\"do-sig\" versions of the hash tables will be removed\n", "prefixes": [ "dpdk-dev", "v2" ] }