From patchwork Mon Oct 1 11:05:09 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Anatoly Burakov X-Patchwork-Id: 45742 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 410696C9B; Mon, 1 Oct 2018 13:05:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3D75F14 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2018 13:05:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga004.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.48]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 01 Oct 2018 04:05:17 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.54,327,1534834800"; d="scan'208";a="93561199" Received: from irvmail001.ir.intel.com ([163.33.26.43]) by fmsmga004.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 01 Oct 2018 04:05:14 -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 w91B5DG9028062; Mon, 1 Oct 2018 12:05:13 +0100 Received: from sivswdev01.ir.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sivswdev01.ir.intel.com with ESMTP id w91B5DGW017922; Mon, 1 Oct 2018 12:05:13 +0100 Received: (from aburakov@localhost) by sivswdev01.ir.intel.com with LOCAL id w91B5Ddw017917; Mon, 1 Oct 2018 12:05:13 +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, arybchenko@solarflare.com, alejandro.lucero@netronome.com Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 12:05:09 +0100 Message-Id: <36cd72c3067dc9bf89ae82384589d11a517e925d.1538384304.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 v7 20/21] 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 5065ec1af..4248ff4f9 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. API Changes -----------