lib/gro: add Generic Receive Offload API framework

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_08.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
index 2bd2b26..576d8ca 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ New Features
   been reorganized as follows:
 
   * ``dev_id`` field has been removed.
+  * ``driver_id`` field has been removed.
+  * Mempool pointer ``mp`` has been removed.
+  * Replaced ``private`` marker with array of pointers to private data sessions
+    ``sess_private_data``.
 
 * **Updated cryptodev library.**
 
@@ -121,6 +125,10 @@ New Features
     necessary to use a combination of cipher and authentication
     structures anymore.
   * Added helper functions for crypto device driver identification.
+  * Added support for multi-device sessions, so a single session can be
+    used in multiple drivers.
+  * Added functions to initialize and free individual driver private data
+    with a same session.
 
 * **Updated dpaa2_sec crypto PMD.**
 
@@ -145,6 +153,14 @@ New Features
   Added a multicore based distribution mode, which distributes the enqueued
   crypto operations among several slaves, running on different logical cores.
 
+* **Added dpdk-test-eventdev test application.**
+
+  The dpdk-test-eventdev tool is a Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) application
+  that allows exercising various eventdev use cases.
+  This application has a generic framework to add new eventdev based test cases
+  to verify functionality and measure the performance parameters of DPDK
+  eventdev devices.
+
 
 Resolved Issues
 ---------------
@@ -229,6 +245,10 @@ API Changes
   * ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_attach_sym_session()`` and
     ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_dettach_sym_session()`` functions require
     the new parameter ``device id``.
+  * Modified parameters of ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_create()``, to accept
+    ``mempool``, instead of ``device id`` and ``rte_crypto_sym_xform``.
+  * Remove ``device id`` parameter from ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_free()``.
+  * Added new field ``session_pool`` to ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_setup()``.
 
 
 ABI Changes
@@ -297,6 +317,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_distributor.so.1
      librte_eal.so.4
      librte_ethdev.so.6
+   + librte_gro.so.1
      librte_hash.so.2
      librte_ip_frag.so.1
      librte_jobstats.so.1