From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35FDE468C9; Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:51:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B729242EAD; Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:51:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mgamail.intel.com (mgamail.intel.com [198.175.65.19]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69CB440672 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:51:02 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1749567062; x=1781103062; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ux5CS/PiKzQx2V7wnyjh0QopHvn68FsSXSt/KoCa4Qc=; b=mFUvDwEsZhsJ838BvWJOZE+xAo/robjnXBuPTkSOmEs0RGPmqga0r7oa LcFJHQhi1wkR5jPAeNP/0JYPFGcX19hvr86WDD4NZeH9uSSG9u6jZ5Ung GnkfG+S9B02c3U7Ui/AuhKIUUztq+jKMAv+b7NNrbibbOoD9cn9B3ddNb o8nCRWO2QFySVkhhTbUU6EwjGZ4ERGZU9kdXfqGSZM9LVwC965DCC7UMi T32DkC3LmLAIAAf4Xy9NFZD4BtYPNhL8esh6n91FkPLf01wHOlIXKPjGe xIDCzyc8dcJU/r+mFQ0BRj/2pxphtSrcJLyp4M2dAwI9nRG3RIGTfDJ87 Q==; X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: ieSrI2IIToubuKYyI0iFww== X-CSE-MsgGUID: OflsMVvvQMW+xBt/qkrtzg== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6800,10657,11460"; a="51562367" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.16,225,1744095600"; d="scan'208";a="51562367" Received: from orviesa010.jf.intel.com ([10.64.159.150]) by orvoesa111.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 10 Jun 2025 07:51:01 -0700 X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: asrVseWrRKaHhdTVAgEJiw== X-CSE-MsgGUID: HHDDw+R0S3qWZyq17ICu3Q== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.16,225,1744095600"; d="scan'208";a="146775436" Received: from silpixa00401217.ir.intel.com ([10.55.128.45]) by orviesa010.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Jun 2025 07:51:01 -0700 From: Bruce Richardson To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: thomas@monjalon.net, Bruce Richardson Subject: [PATCH] doc: add release note entry for EAL lcores flag Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:50:55 +0100 Message-ID: <20250610145055.1497390-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.48.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Add an entry in the release notes about the "-l" flag now being the same as the "--lcores" flag. Refer to the GSG for examples. Fixes: 1ea3833e9c4e ("eal: merge corelist and core mapping options") Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_07.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_07.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_07.rst index a5b353d342..fa44dc562a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_07.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_07.rst @@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ New Features Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ======================================================= +* **Enhanced EAL ``-l`` corelist argument.** + + Added support to the EAL ``-l`` argument for the full range of core-to-cpu mapping options supported by the ``--lcores`` EAL argument. + Previously, ``-l`` only supported a subset of the options, + allowing only a list of cpus to be specified, which would be mapped 1:1 with internal lcore ids. + Now, it is possible to use the shortened ``-l`` form to map lcore ids to threads running on specific CPUs. + See the :doc:`../linux_gsg/eal_args.include` guide for examples. + * **Added PMU library.** Added a Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) library which allows Linux applications -- 2.48.1