From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anatoly Burakov Subject: [PATCH v6 20/21] doc: add external memory feature to the release notes Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:41:17 +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 mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725211B136 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:41:33 +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 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst index 5065ec1af..4248ff4f9 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst @@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ New Features SR-IOV option in Hyper-V and Azure. This is an alternative to the previous vdev_netvsc, tap, and failsafe drivers combination. +* **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. API Changes ----------- -- 2.17.1