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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@@ -78,6 +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:
@@ -110,6 +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
 -----------
@@ -142,6 +161,9 @@ API Changes
   ``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()``.
@@ -194,6 +216,10 @@ ABI Changes
          - 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
 -------------
@@ -229,11 +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