Announce upcoming changes related to master/slave in reference to lcore. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 299e30d92184..47badff6119a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -252,3 +252,23 @@ Deprecation Notices ``make``. Given environments are too much variables for such a simple script, it will be removed in DPDK 20.11. Some useful parts may be converted into specific scripts. + +* 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 a future 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``. The old ``master-lcore`` argument + will produce a runtime notification in 20.11 release, and + be remove completely in a future release. + -- 2.27.0
