On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 4:32 PM David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 6:37 AM Phil Yang <phil.y...@arm.com> wrote: > > > > refcnt_atomic member in structures rte_mbuf and rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info > > will be deprecated in 20.11 release. > > > > Suggested-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com> > > Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.y...@arm.com> > > Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.anan...@intel.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 a58a179..99c9806 100644 > > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > > @@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ 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 builtins 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``. > > > > -- > > 2.7.4 > > > > Acked-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com>
Bruce, Konstantin, This precedes the first open source release so trying with you guys: what is the purpose of the RTE_MBUF_REFCNT_ATOMIC build flag? Thanks. -- David Marchand
