2016-12-05 16:26, Zhiyong Yang: > +* **Introduced rte_memset and related test on IA platform.** > + > + Performance drop had been caused in some cases on Ivybridge when DPDK code > calls glibc > + function memset. It was necessary to introduce more high efficient > function to fix it. > + The function rte_memset supported three types of instruction sets > including sse & avx(128 bits), > + avx2(256 bits) and avx512(512bits). > + > + * Added rte_memset support on IA platform. > + * Added functional autotest support for rte_memset. > + * Added performance autotest support for rte_memset.
No need to reference autotests in the release notes. > + * Improved performance to use rte_memset instead of copy_virtio_net_hdr in > lib/librte_vhost. Please describe this change at a higher level. Which case it is improving?
