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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] doc: advertise bucket mempool driver
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 23:56:31 +0200
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Usually it is better to update the release notes in the main patch
implementing the feature (probably the first one in this case).
You can also update it step by step in several patches.

25/04/2018 18:32, Andrew Rybchenko:
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
> @@ -147,7 +147,15 @@ New Features
>    compatible with virtio 0.95 and 1.0. This driver registers ifcvf vDPA driver
>    to vhost lib, when virtio connected, with the help of the registered vDPA
>    driver the assigned VF gets configured to Rx/Tx directly to VM's virtio
> -  vrings.

Removing this last word is probably a mistake.

> +
> +* **Added bucket mempool driver.**
> +
> +  Added bucket mempool driver which provides 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.