kni: calculate MTU from mbuf size

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_19_05.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
index d11bb5a..4e99118 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
@@ -54,6 +54,15 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =========================================================
 
+* **Updated KNI module and PMD.**
+
+  Updated the KNI kernel module to set the max_mtu according to the given
+  initial MTU size. Without it, the maximum MTU was 1500.
+
+  Updated the KNI PMD driver to set the mbuf_size and MTU based on
+  the given mb-pool. This provide the ability to pass jumbo frames
+  if the mb-pool contains suitable buffers' size.
+
 * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
 
   Updated the sfc_efx driver including the following changes:
@@ -134,6 +143,10 @@ API Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
+* eal: the type of the ``attr_value`` parameter of the function
+  ``rte_service_attr_get()`` has been changed
+  from ``uint32_t *`` to ``uint64_t *``.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -190,7 +203,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_compressdev.so.1
    + librte_cryptodev.so.7
      librte_distributor.so.1
-     librte_eal.so.9
+   + librte_eal.so.10
      librte_efd.so.1
      librte_ethdev.so.11
      librte_eventdev.so.6