DPDK Release 21.02
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New Features
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- * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
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* **Added new ethdev API for PMD power management.**
Added ``rte_eth_get_monitor_addr()``, to be used in conjunction with
Added support for matching and raw encap/decap of GENEVE TLV option.
-* **Added support of modify field action in the flow API.**
+* **Added support for Modify field action in the flow API.**
- Added modify action support to perform various operations on
+ Added "modify" action support to rte_flow to perform various operations on
any arbitrary header field (as well as mark, metadata or tag values):
``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_MODIFY_FIELD``.
Supported operations are: overwriting a field with the content from
* **Updated Cisco enic driver.**
- * Added support for 64B completion queue entries
+ * Added support for 64B completion queue entries.
* **Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver.**
- * Added support for traffic management
+ * Added support for traffic management.
* **Updated Intel i40e driver.**
- * Added support on Windows.
+ * Added Intel i40e support on Windows.
* **Updated Intel ice driver.**
Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
* Added Double VLAN support for DCF switch QinQ filtering.
- * Added support for UDP dynamic port assignment for eCPRI tunnel in DCF.
+ * Added support for UDP dynamic port assignment for eCPRI tunnels in DCF.
* **Updated Intel iavf driver.**
* Introduced basic support on Windows.
* Added GTP PDU session container matching and raw encap/decap.
- * Added support for RSS action in the sample sub-actions list.
+ * Added support for a RSS action in the sample sub-actions list.
* Added support for E-Switch mirroring and jump action in the same flow.
- * Added support to handle modify action in correct order regarding the
+ * Added support to handle the modify action in correct order regarding the
mirroring action on E-Switch.
* Enlarged the number of flow priorities to 21844 (0 - 21843) for ingress or
egress flow groups greater than 0 and for any transfer flow group.
* Added inner UDP/IPv4 support for VXLAN IPv4 GSO.
-* **Added enqueue & dequeue callback APIs for cryptodev library.**
+* **Added enqueue and dequeue callback APIs for cryptodev library.**
- Cryptodev library is added with enqueue & dequeue callback APIs to
- enable applications to add/remove user callbacks which gets called
+ The Cryptodev library has been enhanced with enqueue and dequeue callback APIs to
+ enable applications to add/remove user callbacks which get called
for every enqueue/dequeue operation.
* **Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.**
* **Added python script to run crypto perf tests and graph the results.**
- A new python script has been added to automate running crypto performance
+ A new Python script has been added to automate running crypto performance
tests and output graphed results to PDF files.
See the :doc:`../tools/cryptoperf` guide for more details.
Removed Items
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* The internal header files ``rte_ethdev_driver.h``, ``rte_ethdev_vdev.h`` and
``rte_ethdev_pci.h`` are no longer installed as part of the DPDK
``ninja install`` action and are renamed to ``ethdev_driver.h``,
API Changes
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* config: Removed the old macros, included in ``rte_config.h``,
to indicate which DPDK libraries and drivers are built.
The new macros are generated by meson in a standardized format:
ABI Changes
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* No ABI change that would break compatibility with 20.11.
* The experimental function ``rte_telemetry_init`` has been removed from the
application need use it.
-Known Issues
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Tested Platforms
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* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Intel\ |reg| NICs combinations
* CPU
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