When I was adding mlockall() to the testpmd application it was
suggested to add a reference to the use case of mlockall(). This patch
adds is.
Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Add an extra parameter to the ring dequeue burst/bulk functions so that
those functions can optionally return the amount of remaining objs in the
ring. This information can be used by applications in a number of ways,
for instance, with single-consumer queues, it provides a max
dequeue size which is guaranteed to work.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
The 1.7 DPDK_Prog_Guide document in MSWord has been converted to rst format for
use with Sphinx. There is an rst file for each chapter and an index.rst file
which contains the table of contents.
The top level index file has been modified to include this guide.
This document contains some png image files. If any of these png files are modified
they should be replaced with an svg file.
This is the sixth document from a set of 6 documents.
Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
