Tuesday, April 17, 2018 4:40 PM, Ferruh Yigit: > Subject: [PATCH v4] doc: announce ethdev CRC strip flag deprecation > > Make CRC stripping default behavior, deprecate flag > DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP. > > Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> > Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybche...@solarflare.com> > --- > v2: > * Make CRC behavior active in this release > > v3: > * Distribute switch into next two releases for more smooth transition > v18.08: add new flag to keep crc, and implement this in PMDs > v18.11: remove crc strip flag and make default behavior to strip crc > > v4: > * Remove git artifact > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index fd9def20c..dbc405450 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -100,6 +100,22 @@ Deprecation Notices > between the VF representor and the VF or the parent PF. Those new fields > are to be included in ``rte_eth_dev_info`` struct. > > +* ethdev: A new offloading flag ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEEP_CRC`` will be > +added in v18.08, > + This will replace the usage of not setting > +``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP`` flag > + and will be implemented in PMDs accordingly. > + In v18.08 both ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEEP_CRC`` and > +``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP`` flags > + will be available, usage will be: > + ``CRC_STRIP``: Strip CRC from packet > + ``KEEP_CRC``: Keep CRC in packet > + Both ``CRC_STRIP`` & ``KEEP_CRC``: Invalid > + No flag: Keep CRC in packet > + > +* ethdev: In v18.11 ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP`` offload flag will be > +removed, default > + behavior without any flag will be changed to CRC strip. > + To keep CRC ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEEP_CRC`` flag is required. > + ``KEEP_CRC``: Keep CRC in packet > + No flag: Strip CRC from packet > + > * i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first > 16 > bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If > required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow > -- > 2.14.3
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com>
