[PATCH v3 18/20] doc: add external memory feature to the release notes
From: Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
Date: 2018-09-20 11:36:45
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Document the addition of external memory support to DPDK. Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <redacted> --- 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 -----------
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2.17.1