As discussed on the mailing list, the alignment constraint of the ring structure can be relaxed.
Link: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/25039 Link: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/26103 Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.m...@6wind.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 3362f3350..5a63c0277 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -120,3 +120,9 @@ Deprecation Notices The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed (including the ``signature_offset`` parameter) and the "do-sig" versions renamed accordingly. + +* ring: The alignment constraints on the ring structure will be relaxed + to one cache line instead of two, and an empty cache line padding will + be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of the + structure and the offset of the fields will remain the same on + platforms with 64B cache line, but will change on other platforms. -- 2.11.0
