From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anatoly Burakov Subject: [PATCH v8 20/21] doc: add external memory feature to the release notes Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 13:56:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: Cc: John McNamara , Marko Kovacevic , laszlo.madarassy@ericsson.com, laszlo.vadkerti@ericsson.com, andras.kovacs@ericsson.com, winnie.tian@ericsson.com, daniel.andrasi@ericsson.com, janos.kobor@ericsson.com, geza.koblo@ericsson.com, srinath.mannam@broadcom.com, scott.branden@broadcom.com, ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com, keith.wiles@intel.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, thomas@monjalon.net, shreyansh.jain@nxp.com, shahafs@mellanox.com, arybchenko@solarflare.com, alejandro.lucero@netronome.com To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD761B128 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2018 14:56:39 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: References: List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Document the addition of external memory support to DPDK. Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst index cb6308b1f..9c5f24af3 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst @@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ New Features Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* **Added support for using externally allocated memory in DPDK.** + + 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. + * **Add support to offload more flow match and actions for CXGBE PMD** Flow API support has been enhanced for CXGBE Poll Mode Driver to offload: -- 2.17.1