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From: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] release notes: added release notes for macswap
	change
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 11:49:38 +0800
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Updated release notes for the testpmd change which used neon intrinsics
to do MAC swap on ARM platform.

Signed-off-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
index 61a2c73..6f76de3 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ New Features
 
   * Added promiscuous mode support.
 
+* **Updated the testpmd application.**
+
+  Improved testpmd application performance on ARM platform. For ``macswap``
+  forwarding mode, NEON intrinsics were used to do swap to save CPU cycles.
+
 
 Removed Items
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2.7.4