From patchwork Thu Jul 9 15:58:51 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Phil Yang X-Patchwork-Id: 73663 X-Patchwork-Delegate: david.marchand@redhat.com Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 978DCA0528; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 17:59:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB56B1E8ED; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 17:59:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1131E8E1 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 17:59:16 +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 C7D0D1045; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 08:59:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phil-VirtualBox.arm.com (A010647.Arm.com [10.170.226.139]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 21B263F792; Thu, 9 Jul 2020 08:59:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Phil Yang To: olivier.matz@6wind.com, dev@dpdk.org Cc: stephen@networkplumber.org, david.marchand@redhat.com, drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com, Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com, nd@arm.com Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 23:58:51 +0800 Message-Id: <1594310331-23345-2-git-send-email-phil.yang@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1594310331-23345-1-git-send-email-phil.yang@arm.com> References: <1594289442-18594-1-git-send-email-phil.yang@arm.com> <1594310331-23345-1-git-send-email-phil.yang@arm.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] doc: announce deprecation of refcnt atomic member 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" refcnt_atomic member in structures rte_mbuf and rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info will be deprecated in 20.11 release. Signed-off-by: Phil Yang Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev --- 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 74f8c34..7225570 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -123,6 +123,12 @@ Deprecation Notices in "rte_sched.h". These changes are aligned to improvements suggested in the RFC https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-November/120035.html. +* mbuf: ``refcnt_atomic`` member in structures ``rte_mbuf`` and + ``rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info`` is of type ``rte_atomic16_t``. Due to adoption + of C11 atomic built-ins it will be of type ``uint16_t``. ``refcnt_atomic`` + will be removed in 20.11. It will be replaced with ``refcnt`` of type + ``uint16_t``. + * metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.