malloc: add name to malloc heaps
authorAnatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Tue, 2 Oct 2018 13:34:46 +0000 (14:34 +0100)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:11:23 +0000 (11:11 +0200)
commitd14c148e79f03586569458eb489c2c6d2c446cd9
tree6247541067a90c14534df9f2f29f177a882ef0e3
parentf50c6c4bd165e856b61b22a27542e26ad3332e63
malloc: add name to malloc heaps

We will need to refer to external heaps in some way. While we use
heap ID's internally, for external API use it has to be something
more user-friendly. So, we will be using a string to uniquely
identify a heap.

This breaks the ABI, so document the change.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc_heap.h
lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_heap.c
lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c