These actions have been deprecated since DPDK 21.11 as ambiguous and hard-to-use, but their removal might not be popular because net drivers i40e, ixgbe and txgbe employ these actions in complicated "PF/VF + QUEUE" tunnel rule support. Maintainers of these drivers should voice their attitude to the said problem.
For now, document the status in deprecation notes. Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <ivan.ma...@oktetlabs.ru> Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybche...@oktetlabs.ru> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index c31b92a41f..12867dc3cf 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -83,8 +83,13 @@ Deprecation Notices will be limited to maximum 256 queues. Also compile time flag ``RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS`` will be removed. -* ethdev: Items and actions ``PF``, ``VF``, ``PHY_PORT``, ``PORT_ID`` are - deprecated as hard-to-use / ambiguous and will be removed in DPDK 22.11. +* ethdev: Flow actions ``PF`` and ``VF`` have been deprecated since DPDK 21.11 + and are yet to be removed. That still has not happened because there are net + drivers which support combined use of either action ``PF`` or action ``VF`` + with action ``QUEUE``, namely, i40e, ixgbe and txgbe (L2 tunnel rule). + It is unclear whether it is acceptable to just drop support for + such a complex use case, so maintainers of the said drivers + should take a closer look at this and provide assistance. * ethdev: Actions ``OF_DEC_NW_TTL``, ``SET_IPV4_SRC``, ``SET_IPV4_DST``, ``SET_IPV6_SRC``, ``SET_IPV6_DST``, ``SET_TP_SRC``, ``SET_TP_DST``, -- 2.30.2
