From patchwork Fri Jul 30 19:59:12 2021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Honnappa Nagarahalli X-Patchwork-Id: 96476 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85092A0C40; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 21:59:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439E640040; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 21:59:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717BD4003F for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 21:59:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3ED411B3; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 12:59:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from qc2400f-1.austin.arm.com (qc2400f-1.austin.arm.com [10.118.12.44]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B03133F70D; Fri, 30 Jul 2021 12:59:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Honnappa Nagarahalli To: dev@dpdk.org, honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com, thomas@monjalon.net, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com, feifei.wang@arm.com Cc: ruifeng.wang@arm.com, nd@arm.com Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 14:59:12 -0500 Message-Id: <20210730195912.17859-1-honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce the deprecation of lcore state FINISHED X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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" Lcore state FINISHED is used by the worker thread to indicate that it has completed the assigned task. The state is changed to WAIT by another thread after it observes the updated state. This additional step is redundant. After this deprecation, the worker thread will update the state to WAIT. Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang Acked-by: Feifei Wang Acked-by: Jerin Jacob Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- More discussion at: http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210224212018.17576-4-honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com/ doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 9584d6bfd7..3adbde9e94 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ here. Deprecation Notices ------------------- +* eal: The lcore state FINISHED will be removed from the enum + rte_lcore_state_t. The lcore state WAIT is enough to represent the same + state. + * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.