> 10/07/2020 18:21, Konstantin Ananyev: > > Two new sync modes were introduced into rte_ring: > > relaxed tail sync (RTS) and head/tail sync (HTS). > > This change provides user with ability to select these > > modes for ring based mempool via mempool ops API. > > No, the user cannot use these modes because there is no doc, > except in release notes.
AFAIK, there is no section for rte_ring and others SW based mempool drivers: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/mempool/index.html Are you asking me to add such section as part of this patch? > > Sorry I don't understand why I have to do such obvious comment > after so many years. > And more importantly, why nobody else asked for doc? > > I think I will add "UNMAINTAINED" for doc in MAINTAINERS file. > If nobody is interested in doc maintenance, we could "git rm doc/". > > Sorry in advance for hijacking this thread. > > [...] > > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst > > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst > > @@ -171,6 +171,12 @@ New Features > > See the :doc:`../sample_app_ug/l2_forward_real_virtual` for more > > details of this parameter usage. > > > > +* **Added support for new sync modes into mempool ring driver.** > > + > > + Added ability to select new ring synchronisation modes: > > + ``relaxed tail sync (ring_mt_rts)`` and ``head/tail sync (ring_mt_hts)`` > > + via mempool ops API. > > Please check the comment on top of new features about the ordering. > Mempool features should be mentioned earlier in the list. > >
