From patchwork Wed Jan 10 14:46:10 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Liang, Ma" X-Patchwork-Id: 33489 X-Patchwork-Delegate: jerinj@marvell.com 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 CC59F1B26A; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:46:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B2211B263 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:46:35 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 10 Jan 2018 06:46:35 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,340,1511856000"; d="scan'208";a="20498151" Received: from silpixa00398162.ir.intel.com (HELO silpixa00398162.ger.corp.intel.com) ([10.237.223.171]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Jan 2018 06:46:33 -0800 From: Liang Ma To: jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com Cc: dev@dpdk.org, harry.van.haaren@intel.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, deepak.k.jain@intel.com, john.geary@intel.com, peter.mccarthy@intel.com, seanbh@gmail.com, marko.kovacevic@intel.com Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:46:10 +0000 Message-Id: <1515595571-139425-12-git-send-email-liang.j.ma@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.5 In-Reply-To: <1515595571-139425-1-git-send-email-liang.j.ma@intel.com> References: <1515507541-148466-1-git-send-email-liang.j.ma@intel.com> <1515595571-139425-1-git-send-email-liang.j.ma@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 11/12] doc: update 18.02 release notes and maintainers info 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" Signed-off-by: Liang Ma Signed-off-by: Peter Mccarthy Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic --- MAINTAINERS | 6 ++++++ doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index f0baeb4..1b8d617 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -700,6 +700,12 @@ F: doc/guides/eventdevs/sw.rst F: examples/eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd/ F: doc/guides/sample_app_ug/eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd.rst +Software Eventdev PMD +M: Liang Ma +M: Peter Mccarthy +F: drivers/event/opdl/ +F: doc/guides/eventdevs/opdl.rst + Packet processing ----------------- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst index 24b67bb..778854f 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst @@ -42,6 +42,17 @@ New Features ========================================================= +* **Added New eventdev OPDL PMD** + The OPDL (Ordered Packet Distribution Library) eventdev is a specific + implementation of the eventdev API. It is particularly suited to packet + processing workloads that have high throughput and low latency requirements. + All packets follow the same path through the device. The order in which + packets follow is determined by the order in which queues are set up. + Events are left on the ring until they are transmitted. As a result packets + do not go out of order. + + With this change, application can use OPDL PMD by eventdev api. + API Changes -----------