18.05 tagets ethdev-PMD offload API, which means switching all PMDs to
new offloading API
Next step targets ethdev-application offload API which means forcing
applications to switch to new API
Fixes: 3004d3454192 ("doc: update deprecation of ethdev offload API")
Cc: shah...@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 0c696f743..b40c57f28 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -97,8 +97,13 @@ Deprecation Notices
* 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:
+ The old offloads API between ethdev and drivers is target to be deprecated
on 18.05.
+ This includes:
+ - removal of the conversion in ethdev from new offloading API to old API.
+
+ In later releases the old offloading API between ethdev and applications
will be
+ deprecated too, which will include:
- 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.
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