ethdev: deprecate shared counters using action attribute

A new generic shared actions API may be used to create shared
counter. There is no point to keep duplicate COUNT action specific
capability to create shared counters.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Andrew Rybchenko 2020-11-03 14:26:16 +00:00 committed by Thomas Monjalon
parent f78c615377
commit 8ca9bf26f5
3 changed files with 19 additions and 8 deletions

View File

@ -1724,17 +1724,20 @@ that counter.
For ports within the same switch domain then the counter id namespace extends
to all ports within that switch domain.
The shared flag is DEPRECATED and ``SHARED`` ``COUNT`` action should be used
to make shared counters.
.. _table_rte_flow_action_count:
.. table:: COUNT
+------------+---------------------+
| Field | Value |
+============+=====================+
| ``shared`` | shared counter flag |
+------------+---------------------+
| ``id`` | counter id |
+------------+---------------------+
+------------+---------------------------------+
| Field | Value |
+============+=================================+
| ``shared`` | DEPRECATED, shared counter flag |
+------------+---------------------------------+
| ``id`` | counter id |
+------------+---------------------------------+
Query structure to retrieve and reset flow rule counters:

View File

@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
as deprecated in DPDK 20.11, along with the associated macros ``ETH_MIRROR_*``.
This API will be fully removed in DPDK 21.11.
* ethdev: Attribute ``shared`` of the ``struct rte_flow_action_count``
is deprecated and will be removed in DPDK 21.11. Shared counters should
be managed using shared actions API (``rte_flow_shared_action_create`` etc).
* 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``.

View File

@ -2287,6 +2287,9 @@ struct rte_flow_query_age {
* Counters can be retrieved and reset through ``rte_flow_query()``, see
* ``struct rte_flow_query_count``.
*
* @deprecated Shared attribute is deprecated, use generic
* RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SHARED action.
*
* The shared flag indicates whether the counter is unique to the flow rule the
* action is specified with, or whether it is a shared counter.
*
@ -2299,7 +2302,8 @@ struct rte_flow_query_age {
* to all ports within that switch domain.
*/
struct rte_flow_action_count {
uint32_t shared:1; /**< Share counter ID with other flow rules. */
/** @deprecated Share counter ID with other flow rules. */
uint32_t shared:1;
uint32_t reserved:31; /**< Reserved, must be zero. */
uint32_t id; /**< Counter ID. */
};