[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK 1.8.0 released

2014-12-20 Thread St Leger, Jim
Fabulous work by all in the community! Thanks Thomas for pushing us along and getting it done! It's like an early holiday present :-) Enjoy the holidays! Jim P.S. Sorry if this top-post offends anyone. -Original Message- From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjal

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] docs: Add ABI documentation

2014-12-20 Thread Neil Horman
Adding a document describing rudimentary ABI policy and adding notice space for any deprecation announcements Signed-off-by: Neil Horman CC: Thomas Monjalon CC: "Richardson, Bruce" --- doc/abi.txt | 17 + 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/abi.txt diff --

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] Add library version extenstion

2014-12-20 Thread Neil Horman
To differentiate libraries that break ABI, we add a library version number suffix to the library, which must be incremented when a given libraries ABI is broken. This patch enforces that addition, sets the initial abi soname extension to 1 for each library and creates a symlink to the base SONAME

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] Provide initial versioning for all DPDK libraries

2014-12-20 Thread Neil Horman
Add linker version script files to each DPDK library to put a stake in the ground from which we can start cleaning up API's Signed-off-by: Neil Horman CC: Thomas Monjalon CC: "Richardson, Bruce" --- lib/librte_acl/Makefile| 2 + lib/librte_acl/rte_acl_version.map

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] compat: Add infrastructure to support symbol versioning

2014-12-20 Thread Neil Horman
Add initial pass header files to support symbol versioning. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman CC: Thomas Monjalon CC: "Richardson, Bruce" CC: "Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio" --- lib/Makefile | 1 + lib/librte_compat/Makefile | 38 + lib/librte_compat/rte_compat.h | 9

[dpdk-dev] Add DSO symbol versioning to supportbackwards compatibility

2014-12-20 Thread Neil Horman
GI: [PATCH 1/4] compat: Add infrastructure to support symbol versioninBI develops and changes quickly, which makes it difficult for applications to keep up with the latest version of the library, especially when it (the DPDK) is built as a set of shared objects, as applications may be built against

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK 1.8.0 released

2014-12-20 Thread Thomas Monjalon
A new DPDK release can be downloaded here: http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tag/?id=v1.8.0 For those who prefer using git for updates to the stable releases, the new branch "releases" will be updated when a new release is out. Changelog (main changes since 1.7.1) - fixes for:

[dpdk-dev] Problem with running the load balancer example application

2014-12-20 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:14:27PM -0600, Haowei Yuan wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > Thank you very much for the information. I guess I will just use hugepages > then. > > At the beginning, the reason for using the --no-huge flag was that > somehow hugepages used by the app was not released (I don't rem