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From: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] doc: add port representor update in release notes
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 17:12:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180528161222.18935-1-mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
index e8d74f507..511d51908 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
@@ -313,6 +313,16 @@ New Features
   on eth devices (right now only via SW RX/TX callbacks).
   It also adds dependency on libelf.
 
+* **Added support for port representors.**
+
+  The DPDK port representors (also known as "VF representors" in the specific
+  context of VFs), which are to DPDK what the Ethernet switch device driver
+  model (**switchdev**) is to Linux, and which can be thought as a software
+  "patch panel" front-end for applications. DPDK port representors are
+  implemented as additional virtual Ethernet device (**ethdev**) instances,
+  spawned on an as needed basis through configuration parameters passed to the
+  driver of the underlying device using devargs.
+
 
 API Changes
 -----------
-- 
2.17.0

             reply	other threads:[~2018-05-28 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-28 16:12 Mohammad Abdul Awal [this message]
2018-05-28 16:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] doc: add vxlan and nvgre tunnel " Mohammad Abdul Awal
2018-05-28 16:52   ` Mcnamara, John
2018-05-29 10:31     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-05-28 16:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] doc: add port representor " Mcnamara, John
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-05-28 16:08 Mohammad Abdul Awal

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