Add deprecation notice to highlight a future change in the default configuration behavior for flexible payload for RSS.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnam...@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 a93c3e1..9e9caa6 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -67,3 +67,9 @@ Deprecation Notices * librte_meter: The API will change to accommodate configuration profiles. Most of the API functions will have an additional opaque parameter. + +* i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first 16 + bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If + required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow + director APIs. There is no ABI/API break. This change will just remove a + global configuration setting and require explicit configuration. -- 2.7.5
