[dpdk-dev] abi: Announce abi changes plan for vhost-user multiple queues
Commit Message
It announces the planned ABI changes for vhost-user multiple queues feature on v2.2.
Signed-off-by: Changchun Ouyang <changchun.ouyang@intel.com>
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doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Comments
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 09:38:43AM +0800, Ouyang Changchun wrote:
> It announces the planned ABI changes for vhost-user multiple queues feature on v2.2.
>
> Signed-off-by: Changchun Ouyang <changchun.ouyang@intel.com>
> ---
> doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst
> index f00a6ee..dc1b0eb 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst
> @@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ Examples of Deprecation Notices
>
> Deprecation Notices
> -------------------
> +* The ABI changes are planned for struct virtio_net in order to support vhost-user multiple queues feature. The upcoming release 2.1 will not contain these ABI changes, but release 2.2 will, and no backwards compatibility is planed due to the vhost-user multiple queues feature enabling. Binaries using this library build prior to version 2.2 will require updating and recompilation.
> --
> 1.8.4.2
>
>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> It announces the planned ABI changes for vhost-user multiple queues feature on v2.2.
>
> Signed-off-by: Changchun Ouyang <changchun.ouyang@intel.com>
> ---
> +* The ABI changes are planned for struct virtio_net in order to support vhost-user multiple queues feature. The upcoming release 2.1 will not contain these ABI changes, but release 2.2 will, and no backwards compatibility is planed due to the vhost-user multiple queues feature enabling. Binaries using this library build prior to version 2.2 will require updating and recompilation.
Applied with this rewording:
It should be integrated in release 2.2 without backward compatibility.
It *should* be in next release but we have to wait that the feature is
stable/integrated in Qemu.
@@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ Examples of Deprecation Notices
Deprecation Notices
-------------------
+* The ABI changes are planned for struct virtio_net in order to support vhost-user multiple queues feature. The upcoming release 2.1 will not contain these ABI changes, but release 2.2 will, and no backwards compatibility is planed due to the vhost-user multiple queues feature enabling. Binaries using this library build prior to version 2.2 will require updating and recompilation.