.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause Copyright 2018 The DPDK contributors ABI and API Deprecation ======================= See the guidelines document for details of the :doc:`ABI policy <../contributing/abi_policy>`. API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here. Deprecation Notices ------------------- * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case. * eal: The function ``rte_eal_remote_launch`` will return new error codes after read or write error on the pipe, instead of calling ``rte_panic``. * rte_atomicNN_xxx: These APIs do not take memory order parameter. This does not allow for writing optimized code for all the CPU architectures supported in DPDK. DPDK has adopted the atomic operations from https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fatomic-Builtins.html. These operations must be used for patches that need to be merged in 20.08 onwards. This change will not introduce any performance degradation. * rte_smp_*mb: These APIs provide full barrier functionality. However, many use cases do not require full barriers. To support such use cases, DPDK has adopted atomic operations from https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fatomic-Builtins.html. These operations and a new wrapper ``rte_atomic_thread_fence`` instead of ``__atomic_thread_fence`` must be used for patches that need to be merged in 20.08 onwards. This change will not introduce any performance degradation. * mempool: Helper macro ``MEMPOOL_HEADER_SIZE()`` is deprecated and will be removed in DPDK 22.11. The replacement macro ``RTE_MEMPOOL_HEADER_SIZE()`` is internal only. * mempool: Macro to register mempool driver ``MEMPOOL_REGISTER_OPS()`` is deprecated and will be removed in DPDK 22.11. Use replacement macro ``RTE_MEMPOOL_REGISTER_OPS()``. * mempool: The mempool API macros ``MEMPOOL_PG_*`` are deprecated and will be removed in DPDK 22.11. * pci: To reduce unnecessary ABIs exposed by DPDK bus driver, "rte_bus_pci.h" will be made internal in 21.11 and macros/data structures/functions defined in the header will not be considered as ABI anymore. This change is inspired by the RFC https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=17176. * lib: will fix extending some enum/define breaking the ABI. There are multiple samples in DPDK that enum/define terminated with a ``.*MAX.*`` value which is used by iterators, and arrays holding these values are sized with this ``.*MAX.*`` value. So extending this enum/define increases the ``.*MAX.*`` value which increases the size of the array and depending on how/where the array is used this may break the ABI. ``RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX`` is one sample of the mentioned case, adding a new flow type will break the ABI because of ``flex_mask[RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX]`` array usage in following public struct hierarchy: ``rte_eth_fdir_flex_conf -> rte_eth_fdir_conf -> rte_eth_conf (in the middle)``. Need to identify this kind of usages and fix in 20.11, otherwise this blocks us extending existing enum/define. One solution can be using a fixed size array instead of ``.*MAX.*`` value. * ethdev: The flow director API, including ``rte_eth_conf.fdir_conf`` field, and the related structures (``rte_fdir_*`` and ``rte_eth_fdir_*``), will be removed in DPDK 20.11. * ethdev: Announce moving from dedicated modify function for each field, to using the general ``rte_flow_modify_field`` action. * ethdev: The flow API matching pattern structures, ``struct rte_flow_item_*``, should start with relevant protocol header. Some matching pattern structures implements this by duplicating protocol header fields in the struct. To clarify the intention and to be sure protocol header is intact, will replace those fields with relevant protocol header struct. In v21.02 both individual protocol header fields and the protocol header struct will be added as union, target is switch usage to the protocol header by time. In v21.11 LTS, protocol header fields will be cleaned and only protocol header struct will remain. * ethdev: Queue specific stats fields will be removed from ``struct rte_eth_stats``. Mentioned fields are: ``q_ipackets``, ``q_opackets``, ``q_ibytes``, ``q_obytes``, ``q_errors``. Instead queue stats will be received via xstats API. Current method support will be limited to maximum 256 queues. Also compile time flag ``RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS`` will be removed. * ethdev: Items and actions ``PF``, ``VF``, ``PHY_PORT``, ``PORT_ID`` are deprecated as hard-to-use / ambiguous and will be removed in DPDK 22.11. * ethdev: The use of attributes ``ingress`` / ``egress`` in "transfer" flows is deprecated as ambiguous with respect to the embedded switch. The use of these attributes will become invalid starting from DPDK 22.11. * ethdev: Actions ``OF_SET_MPLS_TTL``, ``OF_DEC_MPLS_TTL``, ``OF_SET_NW_TTL``, ``OF_COPY_TTL_OUT``, ``OF_COPY_TTL_IN`` are deprecated as not supported by any PMD, so they will be removed in DPDK 22.11. * ethdev: Actions ``OF_DEC_NW_TTL``, ``SET_IPV4_SRC``, ``SET_IPV4_DST``, ``SET_IPV6_SRC``, ``SET_IPV6_DST``, ``SET_TP_SRC``, ``SET_TP_DST``, ``DEC_TTL``, ``SET_TTL``, ``SET_MAC_SRC``, ``SET_MAC_DST``, ``INC_TCP_SEQ``, ``DEC_TCP_SEQ``, ``INC_TCP_ACK``, ``DEC_TCP_ACK``, ``SET_IPV4_DSCP``, ``SET_IPV6_DSCP``, ``SET_TAG``, ``SET_META`` are marked as legacy and superseded by the generic MODIFY_FIELD action. The legacy actions should be deprecated in 22.07, once MODIFY_FIELD alternative is implemented. The legacy actions should be removed in DPDK 22.11. * cryptodev: Hide structures ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session`` and ``rte_cryptodev_asym_session`` to remove unnecessary indirection between session and the private data of session. An opaque pointer can be exposed directly to application which can be attached to the ``rte_crypto_op``. * security: Hide structure ``rte_security_session`` and expose an opaque pointer for the private data to the application which can be attached to the packet while enqueuing. * metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``. * raw/ioat: The ``ioat`` rawdev driver has been deprecated, since it's functionality is provided through the new ``dmadev`` infrastructure. To continue to use hardware previously supported by the ``ioat`` rawdev driver, applications should be updated to use the ``dmadev`` library instead, with the underlying HW-functionality being provided by the ``ioat`` or ``idxd`` dma drivers