This patch documents the new compress perf tool
option --external-mbufs.
Fixes: c02e33b03075 ("app/compress-perf: add --external-mbufs option")
Signed-off-by: Adam Dybkowski <[email protected]>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst | 5 +++++
doc/guides/tools/comp_perf.rst | 2 ++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
index ba8ad959b..447b665fb 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
@@ -120,6 +120,11 @@ New Features
Added eBPF JIT support for arm64 architecture to improve the eBPF program
performance.
+* **Added external buffers support for dpdk-test-compress-perf tool.**
+
+ Added a command line option to dpdk-test-compress-perf tool to allocate
+ and use memory zones as external buffers instead of keeping the data directly
+ in mbuf areas.
Removed Items
-------------
diff --git a/doc/guides/tools/comp_perf.rst b/doc/guides/tools/comp_perf.rst
index 118de5433..6c59c8403 100644
--- a/doc/guides/tools/comp_perf.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/tools/comp_perf.rst
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ Application Options
``--window-sz N``: base two log value of compression window size (default:
max supported by PMD)
+ ``--external-mbufs``: allocate and use memzones as external buffers instead
of keeping the data directly in mbuf areas
+
``-h``: prints this help
--
2.17.1
