Given that the packet distributor library improvements (1) will not be in 17.02, I plan on doing some consolidation of the API for burst operation for 17.05, merging the two api's into one, with options for single or burst operation.
(1) http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/19911/ Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.h...@intel.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 755dc65..925e156 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ Deprecation Notices and will be removed in 17.02. It is replaced by ``rte_mempool_generic_get/put`` functions. +* lib: distributor library API will be changed to incorporate a burst- + oriented API. This will include a change to ``rte_distributor_create`` + to specify which type of instance to create (single or burst), and + additional calls for ``rte_poll_pkt_burst`` and ``rte_return_pkt_burst``, + among others. + * ethdev: the legacy filter API, including ``rte_eth_dev_filter_supported()``, ``rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl()`` as well as filter types MACVLAN, ETHERTYPE, FLEXIBLE, SYN, NTUPLE, TUNNEL, FDIR, -- 2.7.4
