refcnt_atomic member in structures rte_mbuf and rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info will be deprecated in 20.11 release.
Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.y...@arm.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 74f8c34..7225570 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -123,6 +123,12 @@ Deprecation Notices in "rte_sched.h". These changes are aligned to improvements suggested in the RFC https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-November/120035.html. +* mbuf: ``refcnt_atomic`` member in structures ``rte_mbuf`` and + ``rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info`` is of type ``rte_atomic16_t``. Due to adoption + of C11 atomic built-ins it will be of type ``uint16_t``. ``refcnt_atomic`` + will be removed in 20.11. It will be replaced with ``refcnt`` of type + ``uint16_t``. + * metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``. -- 2.7.4