> -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Olivier Matz > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 10:22 AM > To: [email protected]; Neil Horman <[email protected]>; Mcnamara, > John <[email protected]>; Kovacevic, Marko > <[email protected]> > Cc: Kevin Wilson <[email protected]>; Ananyev, Konstantin > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce control mbuf removal > > Hi, > > Please, any other comments or acks for this one? > > Thanks > Olivier > > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:30:27AM +0100, Olivier Matz wrote: > > Link: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-July/069813.html > > Link: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/32041/ > > > > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <[email protected]> > > --- > > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ > > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > > index d59ad5988..e98ce6a0a 100644 > > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > > @@ -59,3 +59,16 @@ Deprecation Notices > > be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of the > > structure and the offset of the fields will remain the same on > > platforms with 64B cache line, but will change on other platforms. > > + > > +* mbuf: The control mbuf API will be removed in v18.05. The impacted > > + functions and macros are: > > + > > + - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_init()`` > > + - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_alloc()`` > > + - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_free()`` > > + - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_data()`` > > + - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_len()`` > > + - ``rte_is_ctrlmbuf()`` > > + - ``CTRL_MBUF_FLAG`` > > + > > + The packet mbuf API should be used as a replacement. > > -- > > 2.11.0 > > We use control messages extensively in examples/ip_pipeline. Every time we needed control messages, we found that the control mbuf was too heavy and did not add any value, so we ended up creating custom data structures.
