[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update release note for hash library

Honnappa Nagarahalli Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com
Wed Oct 17 22:09:34 CEST 2018


> 
> This patch updates release note for the new extendable bucket feature and
> the partial-key hashing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yipeng Wang <yipeng1.wang at intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
> index c13ea82..95c218d 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
> @@ -164,6 +164,13 @@ New Features
>    this application doesn't need to launch dedicated worker threads for vhost
>    enqueue/dequeue operations.
> 
> +* **Added extendable bucket feature to hash library (rte_hash).**
> +
> +  This new “extendable bucket” feature provides 100% insertion
> + guarantee to  the capacity specified by the user by extending hash
> + table with extra  buckets when needed to accommodate the unlikely
> + event of intensive hash  collisions.  In addition, the internal
> + hashing algorithm was changed to use  partial-key hashing to improve
Do we need to provide the reference to partial-key hashing paper?

> memory efficiency and lookup performance.
> 
>  API Changes
>  -----------
> --
> 2.7.4
Other than the above comment, looks fine.
Compiled and verified
Acked-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com>


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