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release notes: added release notes for macswap change

Message ID 1552880978-45321-1-git-send-email-ruifeng.wang@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Ferruh Yigit
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Series release notes: added release notes for macswap change |

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Commit Message

Ruifeng Wang March 18, 2019, 3:49 a.m. UTC 
  Updated release notes for the testpmd change which used neon intrinsics
to do MAC swap on ARM platform.

Signed-off-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
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 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Comments

Ferruh Yigit March 20, 2019, 5:14 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 3/18/2019 3:49 AM, Ruifeng Wang wrote:
> Updated release notes for the testpmd change which used neon intrinsics
> to do MAC swap on ARM platform.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>

Squashed into relevant commit [1] in next-net, thanks.

[1]
app/testpmd: optimize MAC swap by using neon intrinsics
https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/51106/
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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
index 61a2c73..6f76de3 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@  New Features
 
   * Added promiscuous mode support.
 
+* **Updated the testpmd application.**
+
+  Improved testpmd application performance on ARM platform. For ``macswap``
+  forwarding mode, NEON intrinsics were used to do swap to save CPU cycles.
+
 
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