cryptodev: remove AAD from authentication structure

[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 39a3398..d689af7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =========================================================
 
+* **Added support for generic flow API (rte_flow) on igb NIC.**
+
+  This API provides a generic means to configure hardware to match specific
+  ingress or egress traffic, alter its behavior and query related counters
+  according to any number of user-defined rules.
+
+  * Generic flow API support for Ethernet, IPv4, UDP, TCP and
+    RAW pattern items with QUEUE actions. There are four
+    type of filter support for this feature on igb.
+
 * **Added Generic Flow API support to enic.**
 
   Flow API support for outer Ethernet, VLAN, IPv4, IPv6, UDP, TCP, SCTP, VxLAN
@@ -51,6 +61,59 @@ New Features
 
   CXGBE PMD updated to run Chelsio T6 family of adapters.
 
+* **Added latency and performance improvements for cxgbe**
+
+  TX and RX path reworked to improve performance.  Also reduced latency
+  for slow traffic.
+
+* **Updated bnxt PMD.**
+
+  Major enhancements include:
+  * Support MTU modification.
+  * Support LRO.
+  * Support VLAN filter and strip functionality.
+  * Other enhancements to add support for more dev_ops.
+  * Add PMD specific APIs mainly to control VF from PF.
+  * Update HWRM version to 1.7.7
+
+* **Added support for Rx interrupts on mlx4 driver.**
+
+  Rx queues can be armed with an interrupt which will trigger on the
+  next packet arrival.
+
+* **Updated szedata2 PMD.**
+
+  Added support for firmwares with multiple Ethernet ports per physical port.
+
+* **Reorganized the symmetric crypto operation structure.**
+
+  The crypto operation (``rte_crypto_sym_op``) has been reorganized as follows:
+
+  * Removed field ``rte_crypto_sym_op_sess_type``.
+  * Replaced pointer and physical address of IV with offset from the start
+    of the crypto operation.
+  * Moved length and offset of cipher IV to ``rte_crypto_cipher_xform``.
+  * Removed Additional Authentication Data (AAD) length.
+  * Removed digest length.
+  * Removed AAD pointer and physical address from ``auth`` structure.
+  * Added ``aead`` structure, containing parameters for AEAD algorithms.
+
+* **Reorganized the crypto operation structure.**
+
+  The crypto operation (``rte_crypto_op``) has been reorganized as follows:
+
+  * Added field ``rte_crypto_op_sess_type``.
+  * Enumerations ``rte_crypto_op_status`` and ``rte_crypto_op_type``
+    have been modified to be uint8_t values.
+  * Removed the field ``opaque_data``.
+  * Pointer to ``rte_crypto_sym_op`` has been replaced with a zero length array.
+
+* **Updated cryptodev library.**
+
+  * Added AEAD algorithm specific functions and structures, so it is not
+    necessary to use a combination of cipher and authentication
+    structures anymore.
+
 
 Resolved Issues
 ---------------
@@ -134,6 +197,21 @@ ABI Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
+* **Reorganized the crypto operation structures.**
+
+  Some fields have been modified in the ``rte_crypto_op`` and ``rte_crypto_sym_op``
+  structures, as described in the `New Features`_ section.
+
+* **Reorganized the ``rte_crypto_sym_cipher_xform`` structure.**
+
+  * Added cipher IV length and offset parameters.
+
+* **Reorganized the ``rte_crypto_sym_auth_xform`` structure.**
+
+  * Added authentication IV length and offset parameters.
+  * Changed field size of AAD length from uint32_t to uint16_t.
+  * Changed field size of digest length from uint32_t to uint16_t.
+  * Removed AAD length.
 
 
 Shared Library Versions
@@ -158,7 +236,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_bitratestats.so.1
      librte_cfgfile.so.2
      librte_cmdline.so.2
-     librte_cryptodev.so.2
+   + librte_cryptodev.so.3
      librte_distributor.so.1
      librte_eal.so.4
      librte_ethdev.so.6