On 7/12/2023 11:18 AM, Sivaprasad Tummala wrote: > 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
+techboard, Request for review/ack, patch is to remove ABI restriction to add new CPU flags.
