doc: update release notes for timer library changes

Message ID 1557178196-26569-1-git-send-email-erik.g.carrillo@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Series doc: update release notes for timer library changes |

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Commit Message

Carrillo, Erik G May 6, 2019, 9:29 p.m. UTC
  Signed-off-by: Erik Gabriel Carrillo <erik.g.carrillo@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
  

Comments

John McNamara May 7, 2019, 3:32 p.m. UTC | #1
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carrillo, Erik G
> Sent: Monday, May 6, 2019 10:30 PM
> To: Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: update release notes for timer library changes
> 

Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
  
Thomas Monjalon May 9, 2019, 10:19 p.m. UTC | #2
> Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

Applied, thanks
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
index 5044ac7..f4457ac 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
@@ -266,6 +266,11 @@  API Changes
 * power: ``rte_power_set_env`` and ``rte_power_unset_env`` functions
   have been modified to be thread safe.
 
+* timer: Functions have been introduced that allow multiple instances of the
+  timer lists to be created, and they are now allocated in shared memory. New
+  functions allow particular timer lists to be selected when timers are being
+  started, stopped, and managed.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -296,6 +301,9 @@  ABI Changes
   alignment for ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` to restore expected ``rte_crypto_op``
   layout and alignment.
 
+* timer: ``rte_timer_subsystem_init`` now returns success or failure to reflect
+  whether it was able to allocate memory.
+
 
 Shared Library Versions
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