test/crypto: remove crypto perf tests

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
index 4f5576d..eeda6d3 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ New Features
   "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this new
   driver.
 
+* **Added SoftNIC PMD.**
+
+  Added new SoftNIC PMD. This virtual device offers applications a software
+  fallback support for traffic management.
+
 * **nfp: Added PF support.**
 
   Previously Netronome's NFP PMD had just support for VFs. PF support is
@@ -76,6 +81,20 @@ New Features
    * Support for Flow API
    * Support for Tx and Rx descriptor status functions
 
+* **Updated QAT crypto PMD.**
+
+  Performance enhancements:
+
+  * Removed atomics from the internal queue pair structure.
+  * Coalesce writes to HEAD CSR on response processing.
+  * Coalesce writes to TAIL CSR on request processing.
+
+* **Add new benchmarking mode to dpdk-test-crypto-perf application.**
+
+  Added new "PMD cyclecount" benchmark mode to dpdk-test-crypto-perf application
+  that displays more detailed breakdown of CPU cycles used by hardware
+  acceleration.
+
 * **Added IOMMU support to libvhost-user**
 
   Implemented device IOTLB in Vhost-user backend, and enabled Virtio's IOMMU
@@ -221,6 +240,17 @@ API Changes
 * ``rte_mem_phy2mch`` was used in Xen dom0 to obtain the physical address;
   remove this API as Xen dom0 support was removed.
 
+* **Add return value to stats_get dev op API**
+
+  The ``stats_get`` dev op API return value has been changed to be int.
+  By this way PMDs can return an error value in case of failure at stats
+  getting process time.
+
+* **Modified the rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver function in the cryptodev library.**
+
+  The function ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver()`` has been modified.
+  An extra parameter ``struct cryptodev_driver *crypto_drv`` has been added.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -240,6 +270,23 @@ ABI Changes
   The size of the field ``port_id`` in the ``rte_eth_dev_data`` structure
   changed, as described in the `New Features` section.
 
+
+Removed Items
+-------------
+
+.. This section should contain removed items in this release. Sample format:
+
+   * Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the removed item in the past
+     tense.
+
+   This section is a comment. do not overwrite or remove it.
+   Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
+   =========================================================
+
+* The crypto performance unit tests have been removed,
+  replaced by the dpdk-test-crypto-perf application.
+
+
 Shared Library Versions
 -----------------------
 
@@ -288,6 +335,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_pmd_i40e.so.2
      librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
      librte_pmd_ring.so.2
+   + librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
      librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
      librte_port.so.3
      librte_power.so.1