On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 15:58:36 +0100 Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote:
> The ethernet address structure alignment will be changed to 2B alignment in > 19.11. Flag this to users. > > Impact is expected to be minimal for this change since ethernet addresses > are generally 2B aligned anyway. > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> > --- > 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 a7796f49b..7a04b9b09 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here. > Deprecation Notices > ------------------- > > +* net: The alignment of the ethernet address structure in DPDK, > + ``rte_ether_addr`` will be increased to two, i.e. 16-bit aligned, in the > + 19.11 release. This will only affect any data structures where an ethernet > + address is currently aligned on a single byte boundary. > + > * meson: The minimum supported version of meson for configuring and building > DPDK will be increased to v0.47.1 (from 0.41) from DPDK 19.05 onwards. For > those users with a version earlier than 0.47.1, an updated copy of meson We should also take the packed off of ether_header and ether_addr. Packed is meaningless on ether_addr anyway.
