From patchwork Wed Sep 19 13:56:42 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Burakov, Anatoly" X-Patchwork-Id: 44929 X-Patchwork-Delegate: thomas@monjalon.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCA6A378B; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:57:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2847832A5 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:56:52 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 19 Sep 2018 06:56:51 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.53,394,1531810800"; d="scan'208";a="91903538" Received: from irvmail001.ir.intel.com ([163.33.26.43]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 19 Sep 2018 06:56:47 -0700 Received: from sivswdev01.ir.intel.com (sivswdev01.ir.intel.com [10.237.217.45]) by irvmail001.ir.intel.com (8.14.3/8.13.6/MailSET/Hub) with ESMTP id w8JDulbL005028; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:56:47 +0100 Received: from sivswdev01.ir.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sivswdev01.ir.intel.com with ESMTP id w8JDulKt023543; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:56:47 +0100 Received: (from aburakov@localhost) by sivswdev01.ir.intel.com with LOCAL id w8JDulp5023539; Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:56:47 +0100 From: Anatoly Burakov To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: John McNamara , Marko Kovacevic , laszlo.madarassy@ericsson.com, laszlo.vadkerti@ericsson.com, andras.kovacs@ericsson.com, winnie.tian@ericsson.com, daniel.andrasi@ericsson.com, janos.kobor@ericsson.com, geza.koblo@ericsson.com, srinath.mannam@broadcom.com, scott.branden@broadcom.com, ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com, keith.wiles@intel.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, thomas@monjalon.net, shreyansh.jain@nxp.com, shahafs@mellanox.com Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:56:42 +0100 Message-Id: <23e15138232718bd9517b5723249ab71075e094f.1537363687.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.0.7 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 18/20] doc: add external memory feature to the release notes X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Document the addition of external memory support to DPDK. Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst index c04685d17..cc5b582f8 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst @@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ New Features Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* **Added support for using externally allocated memory in DPDK.** + + DPDK has gained support for creating new ``rte_malloc`` heaps referencing + memory that was created outside of DPDK's own page allocator, and using that + memory natively with any other DPDK library or data structure. API Changes -----------