vfio: support VF token

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_20_08.rst

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+* **Added the support for vfio-pci new VF token interface.**
+
+  From Linux 5.7, vfio-pci supports to bind both SR-IOV PF and the created VFs,
+  it uses a shared VF token (UUID) to represent the collaboration between PF
+  and VFs. Update DPDK PCI driver to gain the access to the PF and VFs devices
+  by appending the VF token parameter.
+
+* **Added the RegEx Library, a generic RegEx service library.**
+
+  Added the RegEx library which provides an API for offload of regular
+  expressions search operations to hardware or software accelerator devices.
+
 * **Updated PCAP driver.**
 
   Updated PCAP driver with new features and improvements, including: