| Message ID | a8dfad87e3d755488cfa4e17781d7c565d06c61c.1531477505.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Superseded, archived |
| Headers | show |
| Series | Support running DPDK without hugetlbfs mountpoint | expand |
| Context | Check | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ci/checkpatch | success | coding style OK |
| ci/Intel-compilation | success | Compilation OK |
13/07/2018 12:27, Anatoly Burakov: > Options --no-shconf and --huge-unlink will be removed, and > replaced with --in-memory option, which will be a superset > of these two, and an offially support method to run DPDK > entirely in memory. > > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> The deprecation notice should be sent separately in order to wait for enough agreement.
On 13-Jul-18 1:13 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 13/07/2018 12:27, Anatoly Burakov: >> Options --no-shconf and --huge-unlink will be removed, and >> replaced with --in-memory option, which will be a superset >> of these two, and an offially support method to run DPDK >> entirely in memory. >> >> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> > > The deprecation notice should be sent separately in order to wait > for enough agreement. > Really, we don't have to deprecate old options. It would be nice to remove them as half-measures and replace them with a proper implementation, but it's not strictly necessary, so i'll make it a separate patch.
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 5de59833d..dd1b5c5d8 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here. Deprecation Notices ------------------- +* eal: command-line options ``--no-shconf`` and ``--huge-unlink`` will be + removed, and replaced with a single option ``--in-memory``, which will + enable DPDK to operate entirely in memory, without creating any files on any + filesystems. + * eal: DPDK runtime configuration file (located at ``/var/run/.<prefix>_config``) will be moved. The new path will be as follows:
Options --no-shconf and --huge-unlink will be removed, and replaced with --in-memory option, which will be a superset of these two, and an offially support method to run DPDK entirely in memory. Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> --- Notes: RFC->v1: - Add this patch doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)