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doc: announce deprecation of coherent I/O memory barriers

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rte_cio_*mb APIs will be deprecated in 20.11 release.

Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Reviewed-by: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
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@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
These wrappers must be used for patches that need to be merged in 20.08
onwards. This change will not introduce any performance degradation.
* rte_cio_*mb: Since the IO barriers for ARMv8 platforms are relaxed from DSB
to DMB, rte_cio_*mb APIs provide the same functionality as rte_io_*mb
APIs (taking all platforms into consideration). rte_io_*mb APIs should be
used in the place of rte_cio_*mb APIs. The rte_cio_*mb APIs will be
deprecated in 20.11 release.
* igb_uio: In the view of reducing the kernel dependency from the main tree,
as a first step, the Technical Board decided to move ``igb_uio``
kernel module to the dpdk-kmods repository in the /linux/igb_uio/ directory