[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] mempool: add non-IO flag

[Andrew Rybchenko]

On 10/5/21 7:39 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 29/09/2021 16:52, dkozlyuk at oss.nvidia.com:
>> From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dkozlyuk at oss.nvidia.com>
>>
>> Mempool is a generic allocator that is not necessarily used for device
>> IO operations and its memory for DMA. Add MEMPOOL_F_NON_IO flag to mark
>> such mempools.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dkozlyuk at oss.nvidia.com>
>> Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>
>> ---
>>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst | 3 +++
>>  lib/mempool/rte_mempool.h              | 4 ++++
>>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
>> index f85dc99c8b..873beda633 100644
>> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
>> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
>> @@ -155,6 +155,9 @@ API Changes
>> +* mempool: Added ``MEMPOOL_F_NON_IO`` flag to give a hint to DPDK components
>> +  that objects from this pool will not be used for device IO (e.g. DMA).
> 
> This is not a breaking change, but I am OK to add this note.
> Any other opinion?

Why is it in API changes section? Shouldn't it be in
"New Features"?