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+* **Added support for using externally allocated memory in DPDK.**
+
+ DPDK has gained support for creating new ``rte_malloc`` heaps referencing
+ memory that was created outside of DPDK's own page allocator, and using that
+ memory natively with any other DPDK library or data structure.
+
+* **Added new Flow API actions to rewrite fields in packet headers.**
+
+ Added new Flow API actions to:
+
+ * Modify source and destination IP addresses in the outermost IPv4/IPv6
+ headers.
+ * Modify source and destination port numbers in the outermost TCP/UDP
+ headers.
+
+* **Added new Flow API action to swap MAC addresses in Ethernet header.**
+
+ Added new Flow API action to swap the source and destination MAC
+ addresses in the outermost Ethernet header.
+
* **Add support to offload more flow match and actions for CXGBE PMD**
Flow API support has been enhanced for CXGBE Poll Mode Driver to offload:
* Match items: destination MAC address.
- * Action items: push/pop/rewrite vlan header.
+ * Action items: push/pop/rewrite vlan header,
+ rewrite IP addresses in outermost IPv4/IPv6 header,
+ rewrite port numbers in outermost TCP/UDP 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
SR-IOV option in Hyper-V and Azure. This is an alternative to the previous
vdev_netvsc, tap, and failsafe drivers combination.
+* **Added a new net driver for Marvell Armada 3k device.**
+
+ Added the new ``mvneta`` net driver for Marvell Armada 3k device. See the
+ :doc:`../nics/mvneta` NIC guide for more details on this new driver.
+
+* **Added NXP ENETC PMD.**
+
+ Added the new enetc driver for NXP enetc platform. See the
+ "ENETC Poll Mode Driver" document for more details on this new driver.
+
+* **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
+
+ Updated the sfc_efx driver including the following changes:
+
+ * Added support for Rx scatter in EF10 datapath implementation.
+ * Added support for Rx descriptor status API in EF10 datapath implementation.
+ * Added support for TSO in EF10 datapath implementation.
+ * Added support for Tx descriptor status API in EF10 (ef10 and ef10_simple)
+ datapaths implementation.
+
* **Updated failsafe driver.**
Updated the failsafe driver including the following changes:
* Support for runtime Rx and Tx queues setup.
* Support multicast MAC address set.
+* **Added a devarg to use PCAP interface physical MAC address.**
+ A new devarg ``phy_mac`` was introduced to allow users to use physical
+ MAC address of the selected PCAP interface.
+
* **Added Event Ethernet Tx Adapter.**
Added event ethernet Tx adapter library that provides configuration and
the specified port. The port must be stopped before the command call in order
to reconfigure queues.
+* **Add a new sample for vDPA**
+
+ The vdpa sample application creates vhost-user sockets by using the
+ vDPA backend. vDPA stands for vhost Data Path Acceleration which utilizes
+ virtio ring compatible devices to serve virtio driver directly to enable
+ datapath acceleration. As vDPA driver can help to set up vhost datapath,
+ this application doesn't need to launch dedicated worker threads for vhost
+ enqueue/dequeue operations.
+
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+* eal: ``rte_memseg_list`` structure now has an additional flag indicating
+ whether the memseg list is externally allocated. This will have implications
+ for any users of memseg-walk-related functions, as they will now have to skip
+ externally allocated segments in most cases if the intent is to only iterate
+ over internal DPDK memory.
+ ``socket_id`` parameter across the entire DPDK has gained additional meaning,
+ as some socket ID's will now be representing externally allocated memory. No
+ changes will be required for existing code as backwards compatibility will be
+ kept, and those who do not use this feature will not see these extra socket
+ ID's. Any new API's must not check socket ID parameters themselves, and must
+ instead leave it to the memory subsystem to decide whether socket ID is a
+ valid one.
+
+* eal: The following devargs functions, which were deprecated in 18.05,
+ were removed in 18.11:
+ ``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str()``, ``rte_eal_devargs_add()``,
+ ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count()``, and ``rte_eal_devargs_dump()``.
+
+* eal: The parameters of the function ``rte_devargs_remove()`` have changed
+ from bus and device names to ``struct rte_devargs``.
+
* mbuf: The ``__rte_mbuf_raw_free()`` and ``__rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg()``
functions were deprecated since 17.05 and are replaced by
``rte_mbuf_raw_free()`` and ``rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg()``.
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+* eal: added ``legacy_mem`` and ``single_file_segments`` values to
+ ``rte_config`` structure on account of improving DPDK usability when
+ using either ``--legacy-mem`` or ``--single-file-segments`` flags.
+
+* eal: EAL library ABI version was changed due to previously announced work on
+ supporting external memory in DPDK:
+ - structure ``rte_memseg_list`` now has a new field indicating length
+ of memory addressed by the segment list
+ - structure ``rte_memseg_list`` now has a new flag indicating whether
+ the memseg list refers to external memory
+ - structure ``rte_malloc_heap`` now has a new field indicating socket
+ ID the malloc heap belongs to
+ - structure ``rte_mem_config`` has had its ``malloc_heaps`` array
+ resized from ``RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES`` to ``RTE_MAX_HEAPS`` value
+ - structure ``rte_malloc_heap`` now has a ``heap_name`` member
+ - structure ``rte_eal_memconfig`` has been extended to contain next
+ socket ID for externally allocated segments
+
+* eal: The structure ``rte_device`` got a new field to reference a ``rte_bus``.
+ It is changing the size of the ``struct rte_device`` and the inherited
+ device structures of all buses.
+
Removed Items
-------------
librte_bbdev.so.1
librte_bitratestats.so.2
librte_bpf.so.1
- librte_bus_dpaa.so.1
- librte_bus_fslmc.so.1
- librte_bus_pci.so.1
- librte_bus_vdev.so.1
- + librte_bus_vmbus.so.1
+ + librte_bus_dpaa.so.2
+ + librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
+ + librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
+ + librte_bus_pci.so.2
+ + librte_bus_vdev.so.2
+ + 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.8
+ + librte_eal.so.9
librte_ethdev.so.10
+ librte_eventdev.so.6
librte_flow_classify.so.1
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