[3/3] doc/hash: deprecate lock ellision and read/write concurreny flags

Message ID 20181101045454.632-4-honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
Headers
Series hash: deprecate lock ellision and read/write concurreny flags |

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Honnappa Nagarahalli Nov. 1, 2018, 4:54 a.m. UTC
  RTE_HASH_EXTRA_FLAGS_RW_CONCURRENCY and
RTE_HASH_EXTRA_FLAGS_TRANS_MEM_SUPPORT configuration flags are
deprecated. Reader/Writer concurrency is provided by default.
Transactional memory will be used if the platform supports it.

Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dharmik Thakkar <dharmik.thakkar@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
  

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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 34b28234c..d34cca260 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -55,3 +55,8 @@  Deprecation Notices
   - ``rte_pdump_set_socket_dir`` will be removed;
   - The parameter, ``path``, of ``rte_pdump_init`` will be removed;
   - The enum ``rte_pdump_socktype`` will be removed.
+
+* hash: The configuration flags RTE_HASH_EXTRA_FLAGS_RW_CONCURRENCY and
+  RTE_HASH_EXTRA_FLAGS_TRANS_MEM_SUPPORT will be removed in v19.02.
+  Reader/writer concurrency will be supported by default. The library will
+  use transactional memory if the platform supports it.