hash: use partial-key hashing

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_18_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
index 3d5a34e..0a90144 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
@@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ New Features
   * Match items: destination MAC address.
   * Action items: push/pop/rewrite vlan header,
     rewrite IP addresses in outermost IPv4/IPv6 header,
-    rewrite port numbers in outermost TCP/UDP header.
+    rewrite port numbers in outermost TCP/UDP header,
+    swap MAC addresses in outermost Ethernet header.
 
 * **Added a devarg to use the latest supported vector path in i40e.**
   A new devarg ``use-latest-supported-vec`` was introduced to allow users to
@@ -116,6 +117,12 @@ New Features
   Added the new enetc driver for NXP enetc platform. See the
   "ENETC Poll Mode Driver" document for more details on this new driver.
 
+* **Added Ethernet poll mode driver for Aquantia aQtion family of 10G devices.**
+
+  Added the new ``atlantic`` ethernet poll mode driver for Aquantia XGBE devices.
+  See the :doc:`../nics/atlantic` nic driver guide for more details on this
+  driver.
+
 * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
 
   Updated the sfc_efx driver including the following changes:
@@ -175,6 +182,14 @@ New Features
   the SW eventdev PMD, sacrifices load balancing performance to
   gain better event scheduling throughput and scalability.
 
+* **Added extendable bucket feature to hash library (rte_hash).**
+
+  This new “extendable bucket” feature provides 100% insertion guarantee to
+  the capacity specified by the user by extending hash table with extra
+  buckets when needed to accommodate the unlikely event of intensive hash
+  collisions.  In addition, the internal hashing algorithm was changed to use
+  partial-key hashing to improve memory efficiency and lookup performance.
+
 * **Added ability to switch queue deferred start flag on testpmd app.**
 
   Added a console command to testpmd app, giving ability to switch
@@ -330,12 +345,12 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
    + librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
      librte_cfgfile.so.2
      librte_cmdline.so.2
-     librte_common_octeontx.so.1
      librte_compressdev.so.1
      librte_cryptodev.so.5
      librte_distributor.so.1
    + librte_eal.so.9
-     librte_ethdev.so.10
+     librte_efd.so.1
+   + librte_ethdev.so.11
    + librte_eventdev.so.6
      librte_flow_classify.so.1
      librte_gro.so.1
@@ -348,6 +363,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_latencystats.so.1
      librte_lpm.so.2
      librte_mbuf.so.4
+     librte_member.so.1
      librte_mempool.so.5
      librte_meter.so.2
      librte_metrics.so.1
@@ -359,12 +375,10 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_pmd_bond.so.2
      librte_pmd_i40e.so.2
      librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
-     librte_pmd_dpaa2_cmdif.so.1
      librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
      librte_pmd_ring.so.2
      librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
      librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
-   + librte_pmd_netvsc.so.1
      librte_port.so.3
      librte_power.so.1
      librte_rawdev.so.1
@@ -374,7 +388,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_security.so.1
      librte_table.so.3
      librte_timer.so.1
-     librte_vhost.so.3
+     librte_vhost.so.4
 
 
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