+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ Copyright 2018 The DPDK contributors
+
DPDK Release 18.08
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New Features
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* **Added support for Hyper-V netvsc PMD.**
The new ``netvsc`` poll mode driver provides native support for
Flow API support has been added to CXGBE Poll Mode Driver to offload
flows to Chelsio T5/T6 NICs. Support added for:
+
* Wildcard (LE-TCAM) and Exact (HASH) match filters.
* Match items: physical ingress port, IPv4, IPv6, TCP and UDP.
* Action items: queue, drop, count, and physical egress port redirect.
* **Added descriptor status check support for fm10k.**
- ``rte_eth_rx_descritpr_status`` and ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status``
- are supported by fm10K.
+ The ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_status`` and ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status``
+ APIs are now supported by fm10K.
* **Updated the enic driver.**
* Added port representors support.
* Added Flow API support for e-switch rules.
- Supported ACTION_PORT_ID, ACTION_DROP, ACTION_OF_POP_VLAN,
+ Added support for ACTION_PORT_ID, ACTION_DROP, ACTION_OF_POP_VLAN,
ACTION_OF_PUSH_VLAN, ACTION_OF_SET_VLAN_VID, ACTION_OF_SET_VLAN_PCP
and ITEM_PORT_ID.
- * Supported 32-bit compilation.
+ * Added support for 32-bit compilation.
-* **Added TSO support for mlx4 driver.**
+* **Added TSO support for the mlx4 driver.**
- The support is from MLNX_OFED_4.4 and above.
+ Added TSO support for the mlx4 drivers from MLNX_OFED_4.4 and above.
* **SoftNIC PMD rework.**
- The SoftNIC PMD infrastructure is restructured to use the Packet Framework,
- which makes it more flexible, modular and easier to add new functionality
- in future.
+ The SoftNIC PMD infrastructure has been restructured to use the Packet
+ Framework, which makes it more flexible, modular and easier to add new
+ functionality in the future.
* **Updated the AESNI MB PMD.**
API Changes
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-* Path to runtime config file has changed. The new path is determined as
- follows:
+* The path to the runtime config file has changed. The new path is determined
+ as follows:
- If DPDK is running as root, ``/var/run/dpdk/<prefix>/config``
- If DPDK is not running as root:
- ``rte_eth_conf.rxmode.ignore_offload_bitfield``
- ``ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_IGNORE``
-* cryptodev: In struct ``struct rte_cryptodev_info``, field ``rte_pci_device *pci_dev``
- has been replaced with field ``struct rte_device *device``.
- Value 0 is accepted in ``sym.max_nb_sessions``, meaning that a device
- supports an unlimited number of sessions.
- Two new fields of type ``uint16_t`` have been added:
- ``min_mbuf_headroom_req`` and ``min_mbuf_tailroom_req``.
- These parameters specify the recommended headroom and tailroom for mbufs
- to be processed by the PMD.
+* cryptodev: The following API changes have been made in 18.08:
+
+ - In struct ``struct rte_cryptodev_info``, field ``rte_pci_device *pci_dev``
+ has been replaced with field ``struct rte_device *device``.
+ - Value 0 is accepted in ``sym.max_nb_sessions``, meaning that a device
+ supports an unlimited number of sessions.
+ - Two new fields of type ``uint16_t`` have been added:
+ ``min_mbuf_headroom_req`` and ``min_mbuf_tailroom_req``. These parameters
+ specify the recommended headroom and tailroom for mbufs to be processed by
+ the PMD.
-* cryptodev: Following functions were deprecated and are removed in 18.08:
+* cryptodev: The following functions were deprecated and are removed in 18.08:
- ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_start``
- ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_stop``
- ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_attach_sym_session``
- ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_detach_sym_session``
-* cryptodev: Following functions were deprecated and are replaced by
- other functions in 18.08:
+* cryptodev: The following functions were deprecated and are replaced by other
+ functions in 18.08:
- ``rte_cryptodev_get_header_session_size`` is replaced with
``rte_cryptodev_sym_get_header_session_size``
- ``RTE_COMP_FF_OOP_LB_IN_SGL_OUT``
-ABI Changes
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-Removed Items
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Shared Library Versions
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-.. Update any library version updated in this release
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The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
.. code-block:: diff
librte_distributor.so.1
+ librte_eal.so.8
+ librte_ethdev.so.10
- librte_eventdev.so.4
+ + librte_eventdev.so.5
librte_flow_classify.so.1
librte_gro.so.1
librte_gso.so.1
librte_vhost.so.3
-Known Issues
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Tested Platforms
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* Intel(R) platforms with Intel(R) NICs combinations
* CPU
* Mellanox MLNX_OFED 4.2-1.4.21.0
* DPDK application running on ARM cores inside SmartNIC
- * Bluefield representors support planned for next release.
+ * BlueField representors support planned for next release.
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