[v3,18/20] doc: add external memory feature to the release notes
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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 +++++
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@@ -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.**
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+ 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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