[ovs-dev] [PATCH 8/8] NEWS: Announce the DPDK EAL configuration change

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Fri Apr 1 03:22:49 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: Sean K Mooney <sean.k.mooney at intel.com>
Tested-by: RobertX Wojciechowicz <robertx.wojciechowicz at intel.com>
Acked-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <kevin.traynor at intel.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
---
Typically this is included in the patch which introduces the NEWS-worthy
change, but in this case, I thought it was more appropriate to keep it
isolated. This patch has not significantly changed since it was
introduced (in v7 on Jan 27th)

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

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ea7f3a1..861dec1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ Post-v2.5.0
        assignment.
      * Type of log messages from PMD threads changed from INFO to DBG.
      * QoS functionality with sample egress-policer implementation.
+     * 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:
-- 
2.5.5



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