[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/1] doc: fix missing compress perf option

Adam Dybkowski adamx.dybkowski at intel.com
Wed Oct 16 14:00:30 CEST 2019


This patch documents the new compress perf tool
option --external-mbufs.

Fixes: c02e33b03075 ("app/compress-perf: add --external-mbufs option")

Signed-off-by: Adam Dybkowski <adamx.dybkowski at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst | 5 +++++
 doc/guides/tools/comp_perf.rst         | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
index ba8ad959b..447b665fb 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
@@ -120,6 +120,11 @@ New Features
   Added eBPF JIT support for arm64 architecture to improve the eBPF program
   performance.
 
+* **Added external buffers support for dpdk-test-compress-perf tool.**
+
+  Added a command line option to dpdk-test-compress-perf tool to allocate
+  and use memory zones as external buffers instead of keeping the data directly
+  in mbuf areas.
 
 Removed Items
 -------------
diff --git a/doc/guides/tools/comp_perf.rst b/doc/guides/tools/comp_perf.rst
index 118de5433..6c59c8403 100644
--- a/doc/guides/tools/comp_perf.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/tools/comp_perf.rst
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ Application Options
 
  ``--window-sz N``: base two log value of compression window size (default: max supported by PMD)
 
+ ``--external-mbufs``: allocate and use memzones as external buffers instead of keeping the data directly in mbuf areas
+
  ``-h``: prints this help
 
 
-- 
2.17.1



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