[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 19/20] doc: add external memory feature to the release notes
Anatoly Burakov
anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Fri Sep 21 18:14:08 CEST 2018
Document the addition of external memory support to DPDK.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
---
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
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