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44 * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
45 * Device abstraction libs and PMDs
47 - cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
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57 * **Add support to offload more flow match and actions for CXGBE PMD**
59 Flow API support has been enhanced for CXGBE Poll Mode Driver to offload:
61 * Match items: destination MAC address.
62 * Action items: push/pop/rewrite vlan header.
64 * **Added a devarg to use the latest supported vector path in i40e.**
65 A new devarg ``use-latest-supported-vec`` was introduced to allow users to
66 choose the latest vector path that the platform supported. For example, users
67 can use AVX2 vector path on BDW/HSW to get better performance.
69 * **Added support for SR-IOV in netvsc PMD.**
71 The ``netvsc`` poll mode driver now supports the Accelerated Networking
72 SR-IOV option in Hyper-V and Azure. This is an alternative to the previous
73 vdev_netvsc, tap, and failsafe drivers combination.
75 * **Updated failsafe driver.**
77 Updated the failsafe driver including the following changes:
79 * Support for Rx and Tx queues start and stop.
80 * Support for Rx and Tx queues deferred start.
81 * Support for runtime Rx and Tx queues setup.
82 * Support multicast MAC address set.
84 * **Added Distributed Software Eventdev PMD.**
86 Added the new Distributed Software Event Device (DSW), which is a
87 pure-software eventdev driver distributing the work of scheduling
88 among all eventdev ports and the lcores using them. DSW, compared to
89 the SW eventdev PMD, sacrifices load balancing performance to
90 gain better event scheduling throughput and scalability.
92 * **Added ability to switch queue deferred start flag on testpmd app.**
94 Added a console command to testpmd app, giving ability to switch
95 ``rx_deferred_start`` or ``tx_deferred_start`` flag of the specified queue of
96 the specified port. The port must be stopped before the command call in order
97 to reconfigure queues.
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113 * mbuf: The ``__rte_mbuf_raw_free()`` and ``__rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg()``
114 functions were deprecated since 17.05 and are replaced by
115 ``rte_mbuf_raw_free()`` and ``rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg()``.
117 * A new device flag, RTE_ETH_DEV_NOLIVE_MAC_ADDR, changes the order of
118 actions inside rte_eth_dev_start regarding MAC set. Some NICs do not
119 support MAC changes once the port has started and with this new device
120 flag the MAC can be properly configured in any case. This is particularly
121 important for bonding.
123 * The default behaviour of CRC strip offload changed. Without any specific Rx
124 offload flag, default behavior by PMD is now to strip CRC.
125 DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP offload flag has been removed.
126 To request keeping CRC, application should set ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEEP_CRC`` Rx
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136 that was announced in the previous releases and made in this release.
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158 Shared Library Versions
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171 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
177 librte_bitratestats.so.2
180 librte_bus_fslmc.so.1
183 + librte_bus_vmbus.so.1
186 librte_common_octeontx.so.1
187 librte_compressdev.so.1
188 librte_cryptodev.so.5
189 librte_distributor.so.1
193 librte_flow_classify.so.1
201 librte_latencystats.so.1
214 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
215 librte_pmd_dpaa2_cmdif.so.1
216 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
218 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
219 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
220 + librte_pmd_netvsc.so.1
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247 * When using SR-IOV (VF) support with netvsc PMD and the Mellanox mlx5 bifurcated
248 driver; the Linux netvsc device must be brought up before the netvsc device is
249 unbound and passed to the DPDK.
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265 * Other relevant details...
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