Make CRC stripping default behavior, deprecate flag DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP.
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybche...@solarflare.com> --- v2: * Make CRC behavior active in this release v3: * Distribute switch into next two releases for more smooth transition v18.08: add new flag to keep crc, and implement this in PMDs v18.11: remove crc strip flag and make default behavior to strip crc v4: * Remove git artifact --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index fd9def20c..dbc405450 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -100,6 +100,22 @@ Deprecation Notices between the VF representor and the VF or the parent PF. Those new fields are to be included in ``rte_eth_dev_info`` struct. +* ethdev: A new offloading flag ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEEP_CRC`` will be added in v18.08, + This will replace the usage of not setting ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP`` flag + and will be implemented in PMDs accordingly. + In v18.08 both ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEEP_CRC`` and ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP`` flags + will be available, usage will be: + ``CRC_STRIP``: Strip CRC from packet + ``KEEP_CRC``: Keep CRC in packet + Both ``CRC_STRIP`` & ``KEEP_CRC``: Invalid + No flag: Keep CRC in packet + +* ethdev: In v18.11 ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP`` offload flag will be removed, default + behavior without any flag will be changed to CRC strip. + To keep CRC ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEEP_CRC`` flag is required. + ``KEEP_CRC``: Keep CRC in packet + No flag: Strip CRC from packet + * 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 -- 2.14.3
