refcnt_atomic member in structures rte_mbuf and rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info will be deprecated in 20.11 release.
Suggested-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.y...@arm.com> Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.anan...@intel.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 a58a179..99c9806 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ 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 builtins 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
