[ovs-dev] [PATCH v9 6/6] NEWS: Announce the DPDK EAL configuration change

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Thu Feb 11 20:16:08 UTC 2016


Previous commits have converted dpdk EAL initialization from
requiring a ``--dpdk ... --`` command line arguments to using the Open
vSwitch database. This change announces that as significant NEWS.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
Tested-by: RobertX Wojciechowicz <robertx.wojciechowicz at intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <kevin.traynor at intel.com>
Acked-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
---
v6:
* Introduced

v7->v9:
* No change

 NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 18fca10..bb8b6d5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ Post-v2.5.0
    - DPDK:
      * New option "n_rxq" for PMD interfaces.
        Old 'other_config:n-dpdk-rxqs' is no longer supported.
+     * The mechanism for configuring DPDK has changed from cli based, to
+       using the database.
+     * Some sensible defaults have been introduced for ease of use.
    - ovs-benchmark: This utility has been removed due to lack of use and
      bitrot.
    - ovs-appctl:
-- 
2.5.0




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