Removed dpdk iova aware ABI deprecation notice,
and updated ABI change details in release_17.11.rst.
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shu...@caviumnetworks.com>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 -------
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 3362f3350..6482363bf 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -32,13 +32,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
* eal: the support of Xen dom0 will be removed from EAL in 17.11; and with
that, drivers/net/xenvirt and examples/vhost_xen will also be removed.
-* eal: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 to make DPDK aware of IOVA address
- translation scheme.
- Reference to phys address in EAL data-structure or functions may change to
- IOVA address or more appropriate name.
- The change will be only for the name.
- Functional aspects of the API or data-structure will remain same.
-
* The mbuf flags PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT and PKT_RX_QINQ_PKT are deprecated and
are respectively replaced by PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED and
PKT_RX_QINQ_STRIPPED, that are better described. The old flags and
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
index 170f4f916..30d0c0229 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
@@ -124,7 +124,34 @@ ABI Changes
Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
=========================================================
+* **Following datatypes, structure member and function renamed to iova type.**
+ * Renamed ``phys_addr_t`` to ``iova_addr_t``.
+ * Renamed ``buf_physaddr`` to ``buf_iovaaddr`` for struct rte_mbuf.
+ * Renamed ``phys_addr`` to ``iova_addr`` for struct rte_memseg.
+ * The Following memory translation api renamed from:
+
+ * ``rte_mempool_populate_phys()``
+ * ``rte_mempool_populate_phys_tab()``
+ * ``rte_eal_using_phys_addrs()``
+ * ``rte_mem_virt2phy()``
+ * ``rte_dump_physmem_layout()``
+ * ``rte_eal_get_physmem_layout()``
+ * ``rte_eal_get_physmem_size()``
+ * ``rte_malloc_virt2phy()``
+ * ``rte_mem_phy2mch()``
+
+ * To the following iova types api:
+
+ * ``rte_mempool_populate_iova()``
+ * ``rte_mempool_populate_iova_tab()``
+ * ``rte_eal_using_iova_addrs()``
+ * ``rte_mem_virt2iova()``
+ * ``rte_dump_iovamem_layout()``
+ * ``rte_eal_get_iovamem_layout()``
+ * ``rte_eal_get_iovamem_size()``
+ * ``rte_malloc_virt2iova()``
+ * ``rte_mem_phy2iova()``
Shared Library Versions
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2.11.0
