[ovs-dev] [PATCH v8 5/5] NEWS: Announce the DPDK EAL configuration change

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Fri Jan 29 17:56:40 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>
---
v6:
* Introduced

v7,v8:
* No change

 NEWS | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 04925f6..3cdd18f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ Post-v2.5.0
      * OpenFlow 1.4+ OFPMP_QUEUE_DESC is now supported.
    - ovs-ofctl:
      * queue-get-config command now allows a queue ID to be specified.
+   - DPDK:
+     * The mechanism for configuring DPDK has changed from cli based, to
+       using the database.
+     * Some sensible defaults have been introduced for ease of use.
+
 
 v2.5.0 - xx xxx xxxx
 ---------------------
-- 
2.5.0




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