Re: [PATCH 5/6] doc: add offload flag to PMD todo list

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 11/21/2017 12:32 AM, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> Hi Ferruh,
> 
> Tuesday, November 21, 2017 3:43 AM, Ferruh Yigit:
>> To track modification:
>> ce17eddefc20 ("ethdev: introduce Rx queue offloads API") cba7f53b717d
>> ("ethdev: introduce Tx queue offloads API")
>>
>> Proposed deadline for PMDs is v18.05
> 
> The deprecation of the old offloads API is set to 18.05 [1]. my understanding was that we agreed to convert all PMDs on 18.02.
> If the PMD deadline is going to be postponed I think the ethdev deprecation should be updated. 

Hi Shahaf,

I put deadlines roughly and they need to be discussed here.

But 18.02 deadline is not far away.
I think it is not realistic to expect all relevant PMDs do this conversion on
time, what do you think?

My concern is if there can be some PMD maintainers just learned that an update
is required. I put these docs for that synchronization, but not sure how
efficient or noisy it will be.

Thanks,
ferruh

> 
> [1] http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.html
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>> ---
>>  doc/guides/nics/todo.rst | 11 +++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/todo.rst b/doc/guides/nics/todo.rst index
>> 9ace19716..61dd9cbc9 100644
>> --- a/doc/guides/nics/todo.rst
>> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/todo.rst
>> @@ -72,3 +72,14 @@ This is the list for tracking required PMD changes
>> triggered by library modifica
>>   |                   | | thunderx, vhost, virtio,     |          |                |                                   |
>>   |                   | | vmxnet3                      |          |                |                                   |
>>   +-------------------+--------------------------------+----------+----------------+-------
>> ----------------------------+
>> + | new offload flags | | af_packet, ark, avp, bnx2x,  | v18.05   |
>> ce17eddefc20   | Use new ethdev offloads filed     |
>> + |                   | | bnxt, bonding, cxgbe, dpaa,  |          | cba7f53b717d   | to get
>> requested offload list     |
>> + |                   | | dpaa2, e1000, ena, enic,     |          |                | instead of bitfield
>> values.       |
>> + |                   | | failsafe, fm10k, i40e, ixgbe,|          |                |
>> |
>> + |                   | | kni, liquidio, mlx4, mlx5,   |          |                |                                   |
>> + |                   | | mrvl, nfp, null, octeontx,   |          |                |                                   |
>> + |                   | | pcap, qede, ring, sfc,       |          |                |                                   |
>> + |                   | | softnic, szedata2, tap,      |          |                |                                   |
>> + |                   | | thunderx, vhost, virtio,     |          |                |                                   |
>> + |                   | | vmxnet3                      |          |                |                                   |
>> + +-------------------+--------------------------------+----------+----------------+------
>> -----------------------------+
>> --
>> 2.13.6
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