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
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@@ -134,6 +134,13 @@ Drivers
 
   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
@@ -150,6 +157,11 @@ Drivers
 
   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.