Due to an upcoming fix to allow the timer library to safely free its allocations during the finalize() call[1], an ABI change will be required. A new lock will be added to the rte_mem_config structure, which will be used by the timer library to synchronize init/finalize calls among multiple processes.
[1] http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/53334/ Signed-off-by: Erik Gabriel Carrillo <erik.g.carri...@intel.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index b47c8c2..7551383 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ Deprecation Notices + ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count`` +* eal: the ``rte_mem_config`` struct will change to include a new lock that + will allow the timer subsystem to safely release its allocations at cleanup + time. This will result in an ABI break. + * vfio: removal of ``rte_vfio_dma_map`` and ``rte_vfio_dma_unmap`` APIs which have been replaced with ``rte_dev_dma_map`` and ``rte_dev_dma_unmap`` functions. The due date for the removal targets DPDK 20.02. -- 2.6.4
