Update deprecation notice for the new ethdev offloads API. Deprecation of the old offloads API is set to 18.05.
Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 52058f580..deb546a67 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -41,12 +41,14 @@ Deprecation Notices PKT_RX_QINQ_STRIPPED, that are better described. The old flags and their behavior will be kept until 17.08 and will be removed in 17.11. -* ethdev: Tx offloads will no longer be enabled by default in 17.11. - Instead, the ``rte_eth_txmode`` structure will be extended with - bit field to enable each Tx offload. - Besides of making the Rx/Tx configuration API more consistent for the - application, PMDs will be able to provide a better out of the box performance. - As part of the work, ``ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NO*`` will be superseded as well. +* ethdev: a new Tx and Rx offload API was introduced on 17.11. + In the new API, offloads are divided into per-port and per-queue offloads. + Offloads are disabled by default and enabled per application request. + The old offloads API is target to be deprecated on 18.05. This includes: + + - removal of ``ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NO*`` flags. + - removal of ``txq_flags`` field from ``rte_eth_txconf`` struct. + - removal of the offloads bit-field from ``rte_eth_rxmode`` struct. * ethdev: the legacy filter API, including ``rte_eth_dev_filter_supported()``, ``rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl()`` as well -- 2.12.0
