From patchwork Fri Oct 19 10:23:50 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Liang, Ma" X-Patchwork-Id: 47074 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 AF5D61B4C7; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:24:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5E51B491 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:24:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga007.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.52]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 19 Oct 2018 03:24:01 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.54,399,1534834800"; d="scan'208";a="79268396" Received: from irvmail001.ir.intel.com ([163.33.26.43]) by fmsmga007.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 19 Oct 2018 03:24:00 -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 w9JANx2N001371; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 11:23:59 +0100 Received: from sivswdev01.ir.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sivswdev01.ir.intel.com with ESMTP id w9JANxBc021853; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 11:23:59 +0100 Received: (from lma25@localhost) by sivswdev01.ir.intel.com with LOCAL id w9JANxE7021844; Fri, 19 Oct 2018 11:23:59 +0100 From: Liang Ma To: david.hunt@intel.com Cc: dev@dpdk.org, lei.a.yao@intel.com, ktraynor@redhat.com, marko.kovacevic@intel.com, Liang Ma Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 11:23:50 +0100 Message-Id: <1539944630-21625-5-git-send-email-liang.j.ma@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1539944630-21625-1-git-send-email-liang.j.ma@intel.com> References: <1538488107-7181-1-git-send-email-liang.j.ma@intel.com> <1539944630-21625-1-git-send-email-liang.j.ma@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 5/5] doc: update release notes for empty poll library 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 --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst index a8327ea..bbfa8d6 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst @@ -97,6 +97,16 @@ New Features the SW eventdev PMD, sacrifices load balancing performance to gain better event scheduling throughput and scalability. +* **Added Traffic Pattern Aware Power Control Library** + + Added an experimental library. This extend Power Library and provide + empty_poll APIs. This feature measure how many times empty_poll are + executed per core, use the number of empty polls as a hint for system + power management. + + See the :doc:`../prog_guide/power_man` section of the DPDK Programmers + Guide document for more information. + * **Added ability to switch queue deferred start flag on testpmd app.** Added a console command to testpmd app, giving ability to switch @@ -104,7 +114,6 @@ New Features the specified port. The port must be stopped before the command call in order to reconfigure queues. - API Changes ----------- @@ -118,6 +127,16 @@ API Changes Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* power: Traffic Pattern Aware Control APIs is marked as experimental: + + - ``rte_power_empty_poll_stat_init`` + - ``rte_power_empty_poll_stat_free`` + - ``rte_power_empty_poll_stat_update`` + - ``rte_power_empty_poll_stat_fetch`` + - ``rte_power_poll_stat_update`` + - ``rte_power_poll_stat_fetch`` + - ``rte_empty_poll_detection`` + * mbuf: The ``__rte_mbuf_raw_free()`` and ``__rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg()`` functions were deprecated since 17.05 and are replaced by ``rte_mbuf_raw_free()`` and ``rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg()``.