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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 * **Added ability to switch queue deferred start flag on testpmd app.**
77 Added a console command to testpmd app, giving ability to switch
78 ``rx_deferred_start`` or ``tx_deferred_start`` flag of the specified queue of
79 the specified port. The port must be stopped before the command call in order
80 to reconfigure queues.
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96 * mbuf: The ``__rte_mbuf_raw_free()`` and ``__rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg()``
97 functions were deprecated since 17.05 and are replaced by
98 ``rte_mbuf_raw_free()`` and ``rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg()``.
100 * A new device flag, RTE_ETH_DEV_NOLIVE_MAC_ADDR, changes the order of
101 actions inside rte_eth_dev_start regarding MAC set. Some NICs do not
102 support MAC changes once the port has started and with this new device
103 flag the MAC can be properly configured in any case. This is particularly
104 important for bonding.
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148 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
154 librte_bitratestats.so.2
157 librte_bus_fslmc.so.1
160 + librte_bus_vmbus.so.1
163 librte_common_octeontx.so.1
164 librte_compressdev.so.1
165 librte_cryptodev.so.5
166 librte_distributor.so.1
170 librte_flow_classify.so.1
178 librte_latencystats.so.1
191 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
192 librte_pmd_dpaa2_cmdif.so.1
193 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
195 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
196 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
197 + librte_pmd_netvsc.so.1
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224 * When using SR-IOV (VF) support with netvsc PMD and the Mellanox mlx5 bifurcated
225 driver; the Linux netvsc device must be brought up before the netvsc device is
226 unbound and passed to the DPDK.
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242 * Other relevant details...
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