Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.w...@arm.com> writes: <snip>
> > Subject: [PATCH v4 2/2] doc: announce deprecation of refcnt atomic > member > > > > refcnt_atomic member in structures rte_mbuf and > > rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info will be deprecated in 20.11 release. > The plan should be deprecate it in 20.08 release and remove it in 20.11 > release. Yes. Just like Oliver suggested, we will deprecate it in 20.08 release and remove it in 20.11. http://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/73632/ Let's see if we have any other comments. +Jerin and Konstantin. Thanks, Phil > > > > > 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