From patchwork Thu Sep 27 10:41:17 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Anatoly Burakov X-Patchwork-Id: 45507 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 840C61B3BA; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:42:12 +0200 (CEST) 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) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga004.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.38]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 27 Sep 2018 03:41:32 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.54,310,1534834800"; d="scan'208";a="236407005" Received: from irvmail001.ir.intel.com ([163.33.26.43]) by orsmga004.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2018 03:41:26 -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 w8RAfPsH028413; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:41:25 +0100 Received: from sivswdev01.ir.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sivswdev01.ir.intel.com with ESMTP id w8RAfPgt022855; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:41:25 +0100 Received: (from aburakov@localhost) by sivswdev01.ir.intel.com with LOCAL id w8RAfPGp022851; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:41:25 +0100 From: Anatoly Burakov To: dev@dpdk.org 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 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:41:17 +0100 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.0.7 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 20/21] doc: add external memory feature to the release notes 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" 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 -----------