On 25/07/2023 09:39, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
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.
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com>
