> 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 <phil.y...@arm.com> > --- > 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``. > > --
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.anan...@intel.com> > 2.7.4
