doc: update release notes for 21.02

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rawdevs / ioat.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rawdevs/ioat.rst b/doc/guides/rawdevs/ioat.rst
index 5b8d279..250cfc4 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rawdevs/ioat.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rawdevs/ioat.rst
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ The `accel-config <https://github.com/intel/idxd-config>`_ utility library can b
 
 .. note::
         The device configuration can also be done by directly interacting with the sysfs nodes.
+        An example of how this may be done can be seen in the script ``dpdk_idxd_cfg.py``
+        included in the driver source directory.
 
 There are some mandatory configuration steps before being able to use a device with an application.
 The internal engines, which do the copies or other operations,
@@ -283,6 +285,16 @@ is correct before freeing the data buffers using the returned handles:
         }
 
 
+Filling an Area of Memory
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The IOAT driver also has support for the ``fill`` operation, where an area
+of memory is overwritten, or filled, with a short pattern of data.
+Fill operations can be performed in much the same was as copy operations
+described above, just using the ``rte_ioat_enqueue_fill()`` function rather
+than the ``rte_ioat_enqueue_copy()`` function.
+
+
 Querying Device Statistics
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~