On 7/12/2017 12:58 AM, Zhiyong Yang wrote:
This is an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 17.11 on redefinition of
A nit: we usually don't indent at the commit message paragraph.
port_id. port_id is defined as uint8_t by now, which is just ranged from 0 to 255. For more and more scenerioes, more than 256 devices are needed to support for vdev scalability. It is necessary for redefinition of port_id to extend from 1 bytes to 2 bytes. All ethdev APIs and use cases related to port_id will be changed at the same time. Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.y...@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng....@intel.com> Thanks, Jianfeng
--- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 257dcba..f265980 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ Deprecation Notices Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most PMDs have switched to rte_flow.+* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.11 in the "rte_eth_dev_data" structure.+ Change the definition of port_id from 8bits to 16bits in order to support + more than 256 devices in DPDK. + * librte_table: The ``key_mask`` parameter will be added to all the hash tables that currently do not have it, as well as to the hash compute function prototype. The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed
