From patchwork Fri Jul 13 10:27:14 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Burakov, Anatoly" X-Patchwork-Id: 43018 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 4853E5B1E; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:27:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD1905323 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:27:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga006.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.20]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 13 Jul 2018 03:27:19 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.51,347,1526367600"; d="scan'208";a="245411941" Received: from irvmail001.ir.intel.com ([163.33.26.43]) by fmsmga006.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 13 Jul 2018 03:27:17 -0700 Received: from sivswdev01.ir.intel.com (sivswdev01.ir.intel.com [10.237.217.45]) by irvmail001.ir.intel.com (8.14.3/8.13.6/MailSET/Hub) with ESMTP id w6DARGuu007538; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:27:16 +0100 Received: from sivswdev01.ir.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sivswdev01.ir.intel.com with ESMTP id w6DARGN9028051; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:27:16 +0100 Received: (from aburakov@localhost) by sivswdev01.ir.intel.com with LOCAL id w6DARGKA028047; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:27:16 +0100 From: Anatoly Burakov To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Neil Horman , John McNamara , Marko Kovacevic , ray.kinsella@intel.com, kuralamudhan.ramakrishnan@intel.com, louise.m.daly@intel.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com, thomas@monjalon.net Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:27:14 +0100 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.0.7 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 8/9] doc: add deprecation notice for EAL command line options 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" 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 --- Notes: RFC->v1: - Add this patch doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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/._config``) will be moved. The new path will be as follows: