From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA595F48 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2018 13:36:45 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga006.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.20]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 20 Sep 2018 04:36:45 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.53,398,1531810800"; d="scan'208";a="265202981" Received: from irvmail001.ir.intel.com ([163.33.26.43]) by fmsmga006.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 20 Sep 2018 04:36:41 -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 w8KBafpN022849; Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:36:41 +0100 Received: from sivswdev01.ir.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sivswdev01.ir.intel.com with ESMTP id w8KBafdd011593; Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:36:41 +0100 Received: (from aburakov@localhost) by sivswdev01.ir.intel.com with LOCAL id w8KBafDS011589; Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:36:41 +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 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:36:31 +0100 Message-Id: <7492be07118c7a90a1803d983c586934f33695d6.1537443103.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.0.7 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 18/20] 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: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 11:36:46 -0000 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 63bbb1b51..9a05c9980 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