From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Rybchenko Subject: [PATCH v3 6/6] doc: advertise bucket mempool driver Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:32:22 +0100 Message-ID: <1524673942-22726-7-git-send-email-arybchenko@solarflare.com> References: <1511539591-20966-1-git-send-email-arybchenko@solarflare.com> <1524673942-22726-1-git-send-email-arybchenko@solarflare.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Olivier MATZ To: Return-path: Received: from dispatch1-us1.ppe-hosted.com (dispatch1-us1.ppe-hosted.com [67.231.154.164]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED992A488 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:32:33 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1524673942-22726-1-git-send-email-arybchenko@solarflare.com> 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: Andrew Rybchenko --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst index 222cc77cf..61dca6726 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst @@ -147,7 +147,15 @@ New Features compatible with virtio 0.95 and 1.0. This driver registers ifcvf vDPA driver to vhost lib, when virtio connected, with the help of the registered vDPA driver the assigned VF gets configured to Rx/Tx directly to VM's virtio - vrings. + +* **Added bucket mempool driver.** + + Added bucket mempool driver which provides a way to allocate contiguous + block of objects. + Number of objects in the block depends on how many objects fit in + RTE_DRIVER_MEMPOOL_BUCKET_SIZE_KB memory chunk which is build time option. + The number may be obtained using rte_mempool_ops_get_info() API. + Contiguous blocks may be allocated using rte_mempool_get_contig_blocks() API. API Changes -- 2.14.1