On 27-Jul-20 8:20 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Announce upcoming changes related to master/slave in reference
to lcore.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 99c98062ffc2..31a2b942fba5 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -148,3 +148,20 @@ Deprecation Notices
Python 2 support will be completely removed in 20.11.
In 20.08, explicit deprecation warnings will be displayed when running
scripts with Python 2.
+
+* eal: To be more inclusive in choice of naming, the DPDK project
+ will replace uses of master/slave in the API's and command line arguments.
+
+ References to master/slave in relation to lcore will be renamed
+ to initial/worker. The function ``rte_get_master_lcore()``
+ will be renamed to ``rte_get_initial_lcore()``.
+ For the 20.11, release both names will be present and the
+ old function will be marked with the deprecated tag.
+ The old function will be removed in 21.11 version.
+
+ The macros related to primary and secondary lcore will also
+ be change: ``RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE`` will be replaced
^^
I think this was supposed to be either "will also change" or "will also
be changed", but got mashed together :)
+ with ``RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_WORKER``.
+
+ The ``master-lcore`` argument to testpmd will be replaced
+ with ``initial-lcore``.
--
Thanks,
Anatoly