On 11/4/2026 3:34 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2026 22:49:18 +0800 > Chengwen Feng <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Chengwen Feng <[email protected]> >> >> The DPDK tree conflates CPU sockets with NUMA memory nodes: public >> APIs, structure fields and macros are named after "socket" although >> they actually identify a NUMA node (e.g. rte_socket_id(), the >> socket_id field of rte_memzone, SOCKET_ID_ANY). This naming misleads >> application developers and pollutes vendor code that targets NUMA >> topologies. >> >> This series renames the terminology tree-wide: >> >> Foundation (EAL): >> - New NUMA-aware functions are added: rte_numa_id(), >> rte_numa_count(), rte_numa_id_by_idx(), rte_lcore_to_numa_id(), >> rte_malloc_heap_numa_is_external(), and friends. >> - SOCKET_ID_ANY becomes RTE_NUMA_ID_ANY; SOCKET_ID_ANY is kept as a >> deprecated macro alias. >> - The socket_id fields of the public structures are renamed to >> numa_id, keeping socket_id as a deprecated union alias (so field >> offsets, and therefore ABI layout, are unchanged). Affected >> structures include rte_memzone, rte_memseg, rte_memseg_list, >> rte_mempool, rte_hash_parameters, rte_graph, rte_service_spec, >> rte_acl_param, rte_gro_param, rte_ipsec_sad_conf, rte_member_*, >> rte_bbdev_*, rte_cryptodev_config, rte_compressdev_config, >> rte_event_*, rte_ml_dev_config, rte_rawdev* -- see >> doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst for the full list. >> >> Libraries: >> - Library-specific APIs follow the same pattern: ethdev, cryptodev, >> compressdev, rawdev, mldev, bbdev and eventdev gain NUMA-named >> device APIs (e.g. rte_event_dev_numa_id()) with the socket >> variants kept as deprecated aliases. >> >> Drivers, applications, examples and documentation: >> - One commit per unit; in-tree users are updated in the same commit >> as the unit they belong to, moving from libs to drivers and then >> to app/examples. >> - The programming guides and API docs are updated to the new names. >> >> Compatibility notes: >> - The deprecated aliases preserve source compatibility for external >> applications for one release; they will be removed in a future >> release, as recorded in deprecation.rst. >> - No ABI break: the deprecated union alias keeps the layout >> identical. >> - Device arguments and command-line options that literally use the >> "socket" name (e.g. --socket-mem, --socket-limit, the >> socket_id= parameter of the bbdev/compressdev vdevs) are >> intentionally NOT renamed to avoid breaking user scripts; their >> documentation still describes the existing parameter names. >> Feedback on whether/how to migrate these user-facing names is >> welcome. >> >> This series is based on v26.11-rc2 and developped by AI. >>
... >> lib/vhost/rte_vhost_crypto.h | 4 +- >> lib/vhost/vhost.c | 4 +- >> lib/vhost/vhost_crypto.c | 16 +- >> lib/vhost/vhost_user.c | 22 +- >> 905 files changed, 6113 insertions(+), 5439 deletions(-) >> > > Maybe a single coccinelle script would help here? Rather than trying to look > at so many patches. A coccinelle script is a helpful idea. I will try to prepare one.
