Hi Kevin, On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 01:43:17PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > > >Let's see if someone complains, and if no, we can plan to remove it > >for 17.11. > > Well, unless I missed it, I did not encounter any complaints, and > 17.11 was already released. > And the status is of course the same (meaning that in the DPDK tree it > is not used). > Maybe now that 17.11 was just released several days ago, it is a good > time to start deprecation > process for these control MBUF stuff ? I know for sure that for DPDK > newbies who read the programmer's guide > and encounter it, this is a bit confusing (like in > > "2.3.3. Network Packet Buffer Management (librte_mbuf)" > in > > http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/overview.html#network-packet-buffer-management-librte-mbuf) > ... > ... > "This library provides an API to allocate/free mbufs, manipulate > control message buffers (ctrlmbuf) which > are generic message buffers, and packet buffers (pktmbuf) which are > used to carry network packets." > ... > ... > and of course also confusing those who delve into the code. >
I agree. I'll send a RFC soon, and a deprecation notice for 18.02, planning a removal for 18.05. Thanks for spotting it again. Olivier
