release notes: added release notes for macswap change
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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(+)
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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/
@@ -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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