From patchwork Tue Jun 16 01:38:43 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Ouyang Changchun X-Patchwork-Id: 5440 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B3A5A87; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 03:38:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 951989E7 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 03:38:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 15 Jun 2015 18:38:50 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,622,1427785200"; d="scan'208";a="508851045" Received: from shvmail01.sh.intel.com ([10.239.29.42]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 15 Jun 2015 18:38:49 -0700 Received: from shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (shecgisg004.sh.intel.com [10.239.29.89]) by shvmail01.sh.intel.com with ESMTP id t5G1cmpx030171; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:38:48 +0800 Received: from shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id t5G1ciHs020394; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:38:47 +0800 Received: (from couyang@localhost) by shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id t5G1ciLm020390; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:38:44 +0800 From: Ouyang Changchun To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:38:43 +0800 Message-Id: <1434418723-20361-1-git-send-email-changchun.ouyang@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.12.2 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] abi: Announce abi changes plan for vhost-user multiple queues X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" It announces the planned ABI changes for vhost-user multiple queues feature on v2.2. Signed-off-by: Changchun Ouyang Acked-by: Neil Horman --- 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.