From patchwork Fri Nov 3 15:24:23 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: John McNamara X-Patchwork-Id: 31165 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339AA1B6A5; Fri, 3 Nov 2017 16:24:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C0791B6A4 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2017 16:24:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from fmsmga005.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.32]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 03 Nov 2017 08:24:30 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.44,339,1505804400"; d="scan'208";a="171143173" Received: from sivswdev02.ir.intel.com (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([10.237.217.46]) by fmsmga005.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 03 Nov 2017 08:24:25 -0700 From: John McNamara To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com, andrey.chilikin@intel.com, John McNamara Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 15:24:23 +0000 Message-Id: <1509722663-29971-1-git-send-email-john.mcnamara@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.0.7 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] i40e: highlight change to flexible payload for RSS config X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Add deprecation notice to highlight a future change in the default configuration behavior for flexible payload for RSS. Signed-off-by: John McNamara Acked-by: Andrey Chilikin --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index a93c3e1..9e9caa6 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -67,3 +67,9 @@ Deprecation Notices * librte_meter: The API will change to accommodate configuration profiles. Most of the API functions will have an additional opaque parameter. + +* 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 + director APIs. There is no ABI/API break. This change will just remove a + global configuration setting and require explicit configuration.