To allow new cpu features to be added without ABI breakage, RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS will be removed in DPDK 23.11 release.
Signed-off-by: Sivaprasad Tummala <sivaprasad.tumm...@amd.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 8e1cdd677a..92db59d9c2 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Deprecation Notices the replacement API rte_thread_set_name and rte_thread_create_control being marked as stable, and planned to be removed by the 23.11 release. +* eal: RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS will be removed in DPDK 23.11 release. This is + to allow new cpu features to be added without ABI breakage. + * rte_atomicNN_xxx: These APIs do not take memory order parameter. This does not allow for writing optimized code for all the CPU architectures supported in DPDK. DPDK has adopted the atomic operations from -- 2.34.1
