Announce the ABI breakage due to addition of external mempool manager functionality which requires changes to rte_mempool structure.
Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt at intel.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 9930b5a..263e652 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -39,3 +39,13 @@ Deprecation Notices and table action handlers will be updated: the pipeline parameter will be added, the packets mask parameter will be either removed (for input port action handler) or made input-only. + +* librte_mempool: The rte_mempool struct will be changed in 16.07 to + facilitate the new external mempool manager functionality. + The ring element will be replaced with a more generic 'pool' opaque pointer + to allow new mempool handlers to use their own user-defined mempool + layout. Also newly added to rte_mempool is a handler index. + The existing API will be backward compatible, but there will be new API + functions added to facilitate the creation of mempools using an external + handler. The 16.07 release will contain these changes. + -- 2.5.0
