[PATCH v1] i40e: highlight change to flexible payload for RSS config
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From: John McNamara <hidden>
Date: 2017-11-03 15:24:31
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Add deprecation notice to highlight a future change in the default configuration behavior for flexible payload for RSS. Signed-off-by: John McNamara <redacted> --- 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 a93c3e1..9e9caa6 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst@@ -67,3 +67,9 @@ Deprecation Notices * librte_meter: The API will change to accommodate configuration profiles. Most of the API functions will have an additional opaque parameter. + +* 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 + director APIs. There is no ABI/API break. This change will just remove a + global configuration setting and require explicit configuration.
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