DPDK Release 21.08
==================
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+New Features
+------------
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+* **Added auxiliary bus support.**
- Use proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation in all sections.
+ An auxiliary bus provides a way to split a function into child-devices
+ representing sub-domains of functionality. Each auxiliary device
+ represents a part of its parent functionality.
- Variable and config names should be quoted as fixed width text:
- ``LIKE_THIS``.
+* **Added XZ compressed firmware support.**
- Build the docs and view the output file to ensure the changes are correct::
+ Using ``rte_firmware_read`` a driver can now handle XZ compressed firmware
+ in a transparent way, with EAL uncompressing using libarchive, if this library
+ is available when building DPDK.
- make doc-guides-html
- xdg-open build/doc/html/guides/rel_notes/release_21_08.html
+* **Updated Amazon ENA PMD.**
+ Updated the Amazon ENA PMD. The new driver version (v2.4.0) introduced
+ bug fixes and improvements, including:
-New Features
-------------
+ * Added Rx interrupt support.
+ * RSS hash function key reconfiguration support.
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+* **Updated Intel iavf driver.**
- * **Add a title in the past tense with a full stop.**
+ * Added Tx QoS VF queue TC mapping.
+ * Added FDIR and RSS for GTPoGRE, and support for filters based on GTPU TEID/QFI,
+ outermost L3 or innermost L3/L4.
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+* **Updated Intel ice driver.**
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+ * Added new RX and TX paths in the AVX2 code to use HW offload
+ features. When the HW offload features are configured to be used, the
+ offload paths are chosen automatically. In parallel the support for HW
+ offload features was removed from the legacy AVX2 paths.
+ * Added Tx QoS TC bandwidth configuration in DCF.
- * Added feature foo to do something.
- * Enhanced feature bar to do something else.
+* **Added support for Marvell CN10K SoC Ethernet device.**
- Refer to the previous release notes for examples.
+ * Added net/cnxk driver which provides the support for the integrated Ethernet
+ device.
- Suggested order in release notes items:
- * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
- * Device abstraction libs and PMDs (ordered alphabetically by vendor name)
- - ethdev (lib, PMDs)
- - cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
- - eventdev (lib, PMDs)
- - etc
- * Other libs
- * Apps, Examples, Tools (if significant)
+* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
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- Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
- =======================================================
+ * Added Sub-Function support based on auxiliary bus.
+ * Added support for meter hierarchy.
+ * Added support for metering policy actions of yellow color.
+ * Added support for metering trTCM RFC2698 and RFC4115.
+ * Added devargs option ``allow_duplicate_pattern``.
+ * Added matching on IPv4 Internet Header Length (IHL).
+ * Added support for matching on VXLAN header last 8-bits reserved field.
+ * Optimized multi-thread flow rule insertion rate.
-* **Added auxiliary bus support.**
+* **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
- Auxiliary bus provides a way to split function into child-devices
- representing sub-domains of functionality. Each auxiliary device
- represents a part of its parent functionality.
+ Updated the Solarflare ``sfc_efx`` driver with changes including:
-* **Added support for Marvell CN10K SoC ethernet device.**
+ * Added COUNT action support for SN1000 NICs.
- * Added net/cnxk driver which provides the support for the integrated ethernet
- device.
+* **Added Wangxun ngbe PMD.**
+
+ Added a new PMD for Wangxun 1Gb Ethernet NICs.
+ See the :doc:`../nics/ngbe` for more details.
+
+* **Added inflight packets clear API in vhost library.**
+
+ Added an API which can clear the inflight packets submitted to
+ the DMA engine in the vhost async data path.
+
+* **Updated Intel QuickAssist crypto PMD.**
+
+ Added fourth generation of QuickAssist Technology(QAT) devices support.
+ Only symmetric crypto has been currently enabled. Compression and asymmetric
+ crypto PMD will fail to create.
+
+* **Added support for Marvell CNXK crypto driver.**
+
+ * Added cnxk crypto PMD which provides support for an integrated
+ crypto driver for CN9K and CN10K series of SOCs. Support for
+ symmetric crypto algorithms was added to both the PMDs.
+ * Added support for lookaside protocol (IPsec) offload in cn10k PMD.
+ * Added support for asymmetric crypto operations in cn9k and cn10k PMD.
+
+* **Updated Marvell OCTEON TX crypto PMD.**
+
+ Added support for crypto adapter ``OP_FORWARD`` mode.
+
+* **Added support for Nvidia crypto device driver.**
+
+ Added mlx5 crypto driver to support AES-XTS cipher operations.
+ The first device to support it is ConnectX-6.
+
+* **Updated ISAL compress device PMD.**
+
+ The ISAL compress device PMD now supports Arm platforms.
* **Added Baseband PHY CNXK PMD.**
- Added Baseband PHY PMD which allows to configure BPHY hardware block
+ Added Baseband PHY PMD which allows configuration of the BPHY hardware block
comprising accelerators and DSPs specifically tailored for 5G/LTE inline
- usecases. Configuration happens via standard rawdev enq/deq operations. See
+ use cases. Configuration happens via standard rawdev enq/deq operations. See
the :doc:`../rawdevs/cnxk_bphy` rawdev guide for more details on this driver.
+* **Added support for Marvell CN10K, CN9K, event Rx/Tx adapter.**
-Removed Items
--------------
+ * Added Rx/Tx adapter support for event/cnxk when the Ethernet device requested
+ is net/cnxk.
+ * Added support for event vectorization for Rx/Tx adapter.
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+* **Added cppc_cpufreq support to Power Management library.**
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- in the past tense.
+ Added support for cppc_cpufreq driver which works on most arm64 platforms.
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- =======================================================
+* **Added multi-queue support to Ethernet PMD Power Management.**
+ The experimental PMD power management API now supports managing
+ multiple Ethernet Rx queues per lcore.
-API Changes
------------
+* **Updated testpmd to output log errors to stderr.**
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+ Updated testpmd application to output log errors and warnings to stderr
+ instead of stdout.
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- =======================================================
+API Changes
+-----------
* eal: ``rte_strscpy`` sets ``rte_errno`` to ``E2BIG`` in case of string
truncation.
+* eal: ``rte_bsf32_safe`` now takes a 32-bit value for its first argument.
+ This fixes warnings about loss of precision
+ when used with some compilers settings.
-ABI Changes
------------
+* eal: ``rte_power_monitor`` and the ``rte_power_monitor_cond`` struct changed
+ to use a callback mechanism.
-.. This section should contain ABI changes. Sample format:
+* rte_power: The experimental PMD power management API is no longer considered
+ to be thread safe; all Rx queues affected by the API will now need to be
+ stopped before making any changes to the power management scheme.
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- =======================================================
+ABI Changes
+-----------
* No ABI change that would break compatibility with 20.11.
Known Issues
------------
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+* **Last mbuf segment not implicitly reset.**
- * **Add title in present tense with full stop.**
+ It is expected that free mbufs have their field ``nb_seg`` set to 1,
+ so that when it is allocated, the user does not need to set its value.
+ The mbuf free functions are responsible of resetting this field to 1
+ before returning the mbuf to the pool.
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+ When a multi-segment mbuf is freed, the field ``nb_seg`` is not reset
+ to 1 for the last segment of the chain. On next allocation of this segment,
+ if the field is not explicitly reset by the user,
+ an invalid mbuf can be created, and can cause an undefined behavior.
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- =======================================================
+ This issue has a root cause in DPDK 17.05, meaning it is 4 years old.
+ A fix is available and discussed but not merged in DPDK 21.08:
+ https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/86458/
Tested Platforms
----------------
-.. This section should contain a list of platforms that were tested
- with this release.
+* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Intel\ |reg| NICs combinations
+
+ * CPU
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| Atom\ |trade| CPU C3958 @ 2.00GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Atom\ |trade| CPU C3758 @ 2.20GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU D-1541 @ 2.10GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU D-1553N @ 2.30GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6140M CPU @ 2.30GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6139 CPU @ 2.30GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6252N CPU @ 2.30GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Platinum 8180 CPU @ 2.50GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Platinum 8180M CPU @ 2.50GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Platinum 8280M CPU @ 2.70GHz
+
+ * OS:
+
+ * Fedora 34
+ * OpenWRT 19.07.4
+ * FreeBSD 12.1
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 8.3
+ * Suse 15 SP2
+ * Ubuntu 20.04
+ * Ubuntu 21.04
+
+ * NICs:
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| Ethernet Controller E810-C for SFP (4x25G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 3.10
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1593 / 8086:1889
+ * Driver version: 1.7.0 (ice)
+ * OS Default DDP: 1.3.27.0
+ * COMMS DDP: 1.3.31.0
+ * Wireless Edge DDP: 1.3.7.0
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| Ethernet Controller E810-C for QSFP (2x100G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 3.10
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1592 / 8086:1889
+ * Driver version: 1.7.0 (ice)
+ * OS Default DDP: 1.3.27.0
+ * COMMS DDP: 1.3.31.0
+ * Wireless Edge DDP: 1.3.7.0
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| 82599ES 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
+
+ * Firmware version: 0x61bf0001
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:10fb / 8086:10ed
+ * Driver version: 5.1.0-k (ixgbe)
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| Corporation Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T
+
+ * Firmware version: 0x800003e7
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:15ad / 8086:15a8
+ * Driver version: 5.1.0-k (ixgbe)
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| Corporation Ethernet Controller 10G X550T
+
+ * Firmware version: 0x8000113b
+ * Device id (pf): 8086:1563
+ * Driver version: 5.11.3 (ixgbe)
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2
+
+ * Firmware version: 0x800005f9
+ * Device id (pf): 8086:1528
+ * Driver version: 4.18.0-305.7.1.el8_4.x86_64 (ixgbe)
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA4 (4x10G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 8.30 0x8000a49d 1.2926.0
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1572 / 8086:154c
+ * Driver version: 2.15.9 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ (4x10G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 5.30 0x80002a29 1.2926.0
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:37d0 / 8086:37cd
+ * Driver version: 2.15.9 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T (2x10G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 4.10 0x80001a7a 1.2154.0
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:37d2 / 8086:37cd
+ * Driver version: 2.15.9 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (2x25G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 8.30 0x8000a485 1.2926.0
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:158b / 8086:154c
+ * Driver version: 2.15.9 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710-QDA2 (2X40G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 8.30 0x8000a4ae 1.2926.0
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1583 / 8086:154c
+ * Driver version: 2.15.9 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-T2L
+
+ * Firmware version: 8.30 0x8000a489 1.2926.0
+ * Device id (pf): 8086:15ff
+ * Driver version: 2.15.9 (i40e)
+
+* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Mellanox\ |reg| NICs combinations
+
+ * CPU:
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2697A v4 @ 2.60GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2640 @ 2.50GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz
+
+ * OS:
+
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.2 (Ootpa)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.8 (Maipo)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)
+ * Ubuntu 20.04
+ * Ubuntu 18.04
+ * Ubuntu 16.04
+ * SUSE Enterprise Linux 15 SP2
+ * SUSE Enterprise Linux 12 SP4
+
+ * OFED:
+
+ * MLNX_OFED 5.4-1.0.3.0 and above
+ * MLNX_OFED 5.3-1.0.0.1
+
+ * upstream kernel:
+
+ * Linux 5.14.0-rc3 and above
+
+ * rdma-core:
+
+ * rdma-core-36.0 and above
+
+ * NICs:
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-3 Pro 40G MCX354A-FCC_Ax (2x40G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1007
+ * Firmware version: 2.42.5000
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-3 Pro 40G MCX354A-FCCT (2x40G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1007
+ * Firmware version: 2.42.5000
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-4 Lx 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1015
+ * Firmware version: 14.31.1014 and above
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-4 Lx 50G MCX4131A-GCAT (1x50G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1015
+ * Firmware version: 14.31.1014 and above
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-5 100G MCX516A-CCAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1017
+ * Firmware version: 16.31.1014 and above
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-5 100G MCX556A-ECAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1017
+ * Firmware version: 16.31.1014 and above
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-5 100G MCX556A-EDAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1017
+ * Firmware version: 16.31.1014 and above
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-5 Ex EN 100G MCX516A-CDAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1019
+ * Firmware version: 16.31.1014 and above
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-6 Dx EN 100G MCX623106AN-CDAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:101d
+ * Firmware version: 22.31.1014 and above
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-6 Lx EN 25G MCX631102AN-ADAT (2x25G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:101f
+ * Firmware version: 26.31.1014 and above
+
+* Mellanox\ |reg| BlueField\ |reg| SmartNIC
- The format is:
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| BlueField\ |reg| 2 SmartNIC MT41686 - MBF2H332A-AEEOT_A1 (2x25G)
- * <vendor> platform with <vendor> <type of devices> combinations
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:a2d6
+ * Firmware version: 24.31.1014 and above
- * List of CPU
- * List of OS
- * List of devices
- * Other relevant details...
+ * Embedded software:
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- Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
- =======================================================
+ * CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (AltArch)
+ * MLNX_OFED 5.4-1.0.3.0 and above
+ * DPDK application running on Arm cores
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