[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 6/6] doc: advertise bucket mempool driver

Andrew Rybchenko arybchenko at solarflare.com
Mon Mar 26 18:12:59 CEST 2018


Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
index 016c4ed..c578364 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
@@ -52,6 +52,15 @@ New Features
   * Added support for NVGRE, VXLAN and GENEVE filters in flow API.
   * Added support for DROP action in flow API.
 
+* **Added bucket mempool driver.**
+
+  Added bucket mempool driver which provide a way to allocate contiguous
+  block of objects.
+  Number of objects in the block depends on how many objects fit in
+  RTE_DRIVER_MEMPOOL_BUCKET_SIZE_KB memory chunk which is build time option.
+  The number may be obtained using rte_mempool_ops_get_info() API.
+  Contiguous blocks may be allocated using rte_mempool_get_contig_blocks() API.
+
 
 API Changes
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-- 
2.7.4



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