[v4,19/20] doc: add external memory feature to the release notes

Message ID 3d2128289662ac67317316e0546bcdfe9e8a2956.1537546029.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
Headers
Series Support externally allocated memory in DPDK |

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Commit Message

Anatoly Burakov Sept. 21, 2018, 4:14 p.m. UTC
  Document the addition of external memory support to DPDK.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
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 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
index 63bbb1b51..9a05c9980 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@  New Features
   SR-IOV option in Hyper-V and Azure. This is an alternative to the previous
   vdev_netvsc, tap, and failsafe drivers combination.
 
+* **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.
 
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