examples/vdpa: introduce a new sample for vDPA

[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
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@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =========================================================
 
+* **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.
+
 * **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:
@@ -72,6 +78,16 @@ New Features
   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 failsafe driver.**
 
   Updated the failsafe driver including the following changes:
@@ -104,6 +120,15 @@ New Features
   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.
+
 
 API Changes
 -----------
@@ -123,6 +148,21 @@ API Changes
   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
@@ -172,6 +212,13 @@ ABI Changes
            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
@@ -208,11 +255,12 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      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