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44 * **Added support for Hyper-V netvsc PMD.**
46 The new ``netvsc`` poll mode driver provides native support for
47 networking on Hyper-V. See the :doc:`../nics/netvsc` NIC driver guide
48 for more details on this new driver.
50 * **Added Flow API support for CXGBE PMD.**
52 Flow API support has been added to CXGBE Poll Mode Driver to offload
53 flows to Chelsio T5/T6 NICs. Support added for:
54 * Wildcard (LE-TCAM) and Exact (HASH) match filters.
55 * Match items: physical ingress port, IPv4, IPv6, TCP and UDP.
56 * Action items: queue, drop, count, and physical egress port redirect.
58 * **Added ixgbe preferred Rx/Tx parameters.**
60 Rather than applications providing explicit Rx and Tx parameters such as
61 queue and burst sizes, they can request that the EAL instead uses preferred
62 values provided by the PMD, falling back to defaults within the EAL if the
63 PMD does not provide any. The provision of such tuned values now includes
66 * **Added descriptor status check support for fm10k.**
68 ``rte_eth_rx_descritpr_status`` and ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status``
69 are supported by fm10K.
71 * **Updated the enic driver.**
73 * Add low cycle count Tx handler for no-offload Tx.
74 * Add low cycle count Rx handler for non-scattered Rx.
75 * Minor performance improvements to scattered Rx handler.
76 * Add handlers to add/delete VxLAN port number.
77 * Add devarg to specify ingress VLAN rewrite mode.
79 * **SoftNIC PMD rework.**
81 The SoftNIC PMD infrastructure is restructured to use the Packet Framework,
82 which makes it more flexible, modular and easier to add new functionality
85 * **Updated the AESNI MB PMD.**
87 The AESNI MB PMD has been updated with additional support for:
89 * 3DES for 8, 16 and 24 byte keys.
91 * **Added a new compression PMD using Intel's QuickAssist (QAT) device family.**
93 Added the new ``QAT`` compression driver, for compression and decompression
94 operations in software. See the :doc:`../compressdevs/qat_comp` compression
95 driver guide for details on this new driver.
97 * **Updated the ISA-L PMD.**
99 Added support for chained mbufs (input and output).
105 .. This section should contain API changes. Sample format:
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115 * Path to runtime config file has changed. The new path is determined as
118 - If DPDK is running as root, ``/var/run/dpdk/<prefix>/config``
119 - If DPDK is not running as root:
121 * If ``$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`` is set, ``${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/dpdk/<prefix>/config``
122 * Otherwise, ``/tmp/dpdk/<prefix>/config``
124 * mempool: Following functions were deprecated and are removed in 18.08:
126 - ``rte_mempool_populate_iova_tab``
127 - ``rte_mempool_populate_phys_tab``
128 - ``rte_mempool_populate_phys`` (``rte_mempool_populate_iova`` should be used)
129 - ``rte_mempool_virt2phy`` (``rte_mempool_virt2iova`` should be used)
130 - ``rte_mempool_xmem_create``
131 - ``rte_mempool_xmem_size``
132 - ``rte_mempool_xmem_usage``
134 * cryptodev: In struct ``struct rte_cryptodev_info``, field ``rte_pci_device *pci_dev``
135 has been replaced with field ``struct rte_device *device``.
136 Value 0 is accepted in ``sym.max_nb_sessions``, meaning that a device
137 supports an unlimited number of sessions.
138 Two new fields of type ``uint16_t`` have been added:
139 ``min_mbuf_headroom_req`` and ``min_mbuf_tailroom_req``.
140 These parameters specify the recommended headroom and tailroom for mbufs
141 to be processed by the PMD.
143 * cryptodev: Following functions were deprecated and are removed in 18.08:
145 - ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_start``
146 - ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_stop``
147 - ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_attach_sym_session``
148 - ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_detach_sym_session``
150 * cryptodev: Following functions were deprecated and are replaced by
151 other functions in 18.08:
153 - ``rte_cryptodev_get_header_session_size`` is replaced with
154 ``rte_cryptodev_sym_get_header_session_size``
155 - ``rte_cryptodev_get_private_session_size`` is replaced with
156 ``rte_cryptodev_sym_get_private_session_size``
158 * cryptodev: Feature flag ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_MBUF_SCATTER_GATHER`` is
159 replaced with the following more explicit flags:
161 - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_IN_PLACE_SGL``
162 - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_OOP_SGL_IN_SGL_OUT``
163 - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_OOP_SGL_IN_LB_OUT``
164 - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_OOP_LB_IN_SGL_OUT``
165 - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_OOP_LB_IN_LB_OUT``
167 * cryptodev: Renamed cryptodev experimental APIs:
169 Used user_data instead of private_data in following APIs to avoid confusion
170 with the existing session parameter ``sess_private_data[]`` and related APIs.
172 - ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_set_private_data()`` changed to
173 ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_set_user_data()``
174 - ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_get_private_data()`` changed to
175 ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_get_user_data()``
177 * compressdev: Feature flag ``RTE_COMP_FF_MBUF_SCATTER_GATHER`` is
178 replaced with the following more explicit flags:
180 - ``RTE_COMP_FF_OOP_SGL_IN_SGL_OUT``
181 - ``RTE_COMP_FF_OOP_SGL_IN_LB_OUT``
182 - ``RTE_COMP_FF_OOP_LB_IN_SGL_OUT``
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213 Shared Library Versions
214 -----------------------
216 .. Update any library version updated in this release
217 and prepend with a ``+`` sign, like this:
220 + librte_cfgfile.so.2
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224 =========================================================
226 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
232 librte_bitratestats.so.2
235 librte_bus_fslmc.so.1
238 + librte_bus_vmbus.so.1
241 librte_common_octeontx.so.1
242 librte_compressdev.so.1
243 + librte_cryptodev.so.5
244 librte_distributor.so.1
248 librte_flow_classify.so.1
256 librte_latencystats.so.1
259 + librte_mempool.so.5
269 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
270 librte_pmd_dpaa2_cmdif.so.1
271 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
273 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
274 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
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315 * Other relevant details...
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319 =========================================================