ixgbe: fix Tx hang when RS distance exceeds HW limit

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_2_2.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
index 16fcc89..5636aad 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ DPDK Release 2.2
 New Features
 ------------
 
+* **Enabled freeing of ring.**
+
+  New function rte_ring_free() allows the user to free a ring
+  if it was created with rte_ring_create().
+
 * **Extended Statistics**
 
   Define extended statistics naming scheme to store metadata in the name
@@ -42,10 +47,18 @@ New Features
 
 * **Added i40e vector RX/TX.**
 
+* **Added i40e Rx interrupt support.**
+
 * **Added i40e flow control support.**
 
 * **Added DCB support to i40e PF driver.**
 
+* **Added RSS/FD input set granularity on Intel X710/XL710.**
+
+* **Added different GRE key length for input set on Intel X710/XL710.**
+
+* **Added flow director support in i40e VF.**
+
 * **Added fm10k vector RX/TX.**
 
 * **Added fm10k TSO support for both PF and VF.**
@@ -77,6 +90,8 @@ New Features
 
 * **Added vhost-user multiple queue support.**
 
+* **Added port hotplug support to vmxnet3.**
+
 * **Added port hotplug support to xenvirt.**
 
 
@@ -101,6 +116,10 @@ Drivers
   in Intel I210 NIC, as EtherType in RX descriptor is in bits 8:10 of
   Packet Type and not in the default bits 0:2.
 
+* **igb: Fixed VF start with PF stopped.**
+
+  VF needs the PF interrupt support initialized even if not started.
+
 * **ixgbe: Fixed issue with X550 DCB.**
 
   Fixed a DCB issue with x550 where for 8 TCs (Traffic Classes), if a packet
@@ -111,11 +130,38 @@ Drivers
 
   Fixed issue where a burst size less than 32 didn't receive anything.
 
+* **ixgbe: Fixed VF start with PF stopped.**
+
+  VF needs the PF interrupt support initialized even if not started.
+
+* **ixgbe: Fixed TX hang when RS distance exceeds HW limit.**
+
+  Fixed an issue when TX queue can hang when a lot of highly fragmented
+  packets have to be sent.
+  As part of that fix, tx_rs_thresh for ixgbe PMD is not allowed to be greater
+  then to 32 to comply with HW restrictions.
+
 * **i40e: Fixed base driver allocation when not using first numa node.**
 
   Fixed i40e issue that occurred when a DPDK application didn't initialize
   ports if memory wasn't available on socket 0.
 
+* **i40e: Fixed maximum of 64 queues per port.**
+
+  Fixed the issue in i40e of cannot supporting more than 64 queues per port,
+  though hardware actually supports that. The real number of queues may vary,
+  as long as the total number of queues used in PF, VFs, VMDq and FD does not
+  exceeds the hardware maximum.
+
+* **i40e: Fixed statistics of packets.**
+
+  Added discarding packets on VSI to the stats and rectify the old statistics.
+
+* **i40e: Fixed issue of not freeing memzone.**
+
+  Fixed the issue of not freeing memzone in the call to free the memory for
+  adminq DMA.
+
 * **vhost: Fixed Qemu shutdown.**
 
   Fixed issue with libvirt ``virsh destroy`` not killing the VM.
@@ -137,6 +183,18 @@ Libraries
   Fixed issue where an incorrect Cuckoo Hash key table size could be
   calculated limiting the size to 4GB.
 
+* **hash: Fixed incorrect lookup if key is all zero.**
+
+  Fixed issue in hash library that occurred if an all zero
+  key was not added in the table and the key was looked up,
+  resulting in an incorrect hit.
+
+* **hash: Fixed thread scaling by reducing contention.**
+
+  Fixed issue in hash library where, using multiple cores with
+  hardware transactional memory support, thread scaling did not work,
+  due to the global ring that is shared by all cores.
+
 
 Examples
 ~~~~~~~~
@@ -186,9 +244,18 @@ ABI Changes
 * The ethdev flow director entries for SCTP were changed.
   It was already done in 2.1 for CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.
 
+* The ethdev flow director structure rte_eth_fdir_flow_ext structure is changed.
+  New fields are added to support flow director filtering in VF.
+
+* The size of the ethdev structure rte_eth_hash_filter_info is changed
+  by adding a new element rte_eth_input_set_conf in an union.
+
 * The new fields rx_desc_lim and tx_desc_lim are added into rte_eth_dev_info
   structure.
 
+* The maximum number of queues per port CONFIG_RTE_MAX_QUEUES_PER_PORT is
+  increased to 1024.
+
 * The mbuf structure was changed to support unified packet type.
   It was already done in 2.1 for CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.