Announce upcoming changes related to master/slave in reference to lcore. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 99c98062ffc2..7c60779f3e68 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -148,3 +148,20 @@ Deprecation Notices Python 2 support will be completely removed in 20.11. In 20.08, explicit deprecation warnings will be displayed when running scripts with Python 2. + +* eal: To be more inclusive in choice of naming, the DPDK project + will replace uses of master/slave in the API's and command line arguments. + + References to master/slave in relation to lcore will be renamed + to initial/worker. The function ``rte_get_master_lcore()`` + will be renamed to ``rte_get_initial_lcore()``. + For the 20.11, release both names will be present and the + old function will be marked with the deprecated tag. + The old function will be removed in 21.11 version. + + The iterator for worker lcores will also change: + ``RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE`` will be replaced with + ``RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_WORKER``. + + The ``master-lcore`` argument to testpmd will be replaced + with ``initial-lcore``. -- 2.27.0
