[ovs-dev] [PATCH v10 6/6] NEWS: Announce the DPDK EAL configuration change

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Wed Mar 9 17:38:11 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>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <kevin.traynor at intel.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: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
---
 NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0a1d1dc..52f0752 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ 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:
-- 
2.5.0




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