X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_17_11.rst;h=a2d5fa87b2c137492ba4ada2b6177271bd601828;hb=c261d1431bd8;hp=7704559081d955c4a04652dc1ae550da1b169a71;hpb=ade02f0f3e7fbb5acd98b2fdf5fce0945ad9554a;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst index 7704559081..a2d5fa87b2 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst @@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ New Features * Support for Flow API * Support for Tx and Rx descriptor status functions +* **Add bus agnostic functions to cryptodev for PMD initialisation** + + Adds new PMD assist functions ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_parse_input_args()``, + ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_destroy()`` which + are bus independent for driver to manage creation and destruction of new + device instances. + * **Updated QAT crypto PMD.** Performance enhancements: @@ -89,6 +96,10 @@ New Features * Coalesce writes to HEAD CSR on response processing. * Coalesce writes to TAIL CSR on request processing. + Additional support for: + + * AES CCM algorithm. + * **Updated the AESNI MB PMD.** The AESNI MB PMD has been updated with additional support for: @@ -99,6 +110,24 @@ New Features This requires the IPSec Multi-buffer library 0.47. For more details, check out the AESNI MB PMD documenation. +* **Updated the OpenSSL PMD.** + + The OpenSSL PMD has been updated with additional support for: + + * DES CBC algorithm. + * AES CCM algorithm. + +* **Added NXP DPAA SEC crypto PMD.** + + A new "dpaa_sec" hardware based crypto PMD for NXP DPAA devices has been + added. See the "Crypto Device Drivers" document for more details on this + driver. + +* **Added MRVL crypto PMD.** + + A new crypto PMD has been added, which provides several ciphering and hashing + algorithms. All cryptography operations use the MUSDK library crypto API. + * **Add new benchmarking mode to dpdk-test-crypto-perf application.** Added new "PMD cyclecount" benchmark mode to dpdk-test-crypto-perf application @@ -143,6 +172,12 @@ New Features checksums, and doesn't update checksums for output packets. Additionally, the GSO library doesn't process IP fragmented packets. +* **Added the Flow Classification Library.** + + Added the Flow Classification library, it provides an API for DPDK + applications to classify an input packet by matching it against a set of flow + rules. It uses the librte_table API to manage the flow rules. + Resolved Issues --------------- @@ -261,6 +296,28 @@ API Changes The function ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver()`` has been modified. An extra parameter ``struct cryptodev_driver *crypto_drv`` has been added. +* **Removed virtual device bus specific functions from librte_cryptodev.** + + The functions ``rte_cryptodev_vdev_parse_init_params()`` and + ``rte_cryptodev_vdev_pmd_init()`` have been removed from librte_cryptodev + and have been replaced by non bus specific functions + ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_parse_input_args()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()``. + +* **Removed PCI device bus specific functions from librte_cryptodev.** + + The functions ``rte_cryptodev_pci_generic_probe()`` and + ``rte_cryptodev_pci_generic_remove()`` have been removed from librte_cryptodev + and have been replaced by non bus specific functions + ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_destroy()``. + +* **Removed deprecated functions to manage log level or type.** + + The functions ``rte_set_log_level()``, ``rte_get_log_level()``, + ``rte_set_log_type()`` and ``rte_get_log_type()`` have been removed. + They are respectively replaced by ``rte_log_set_global_level()``, + ``rte_log_get_global_level()``, ``rte_log_set_level()`` and + ``rte_log_get_level()``. + ABI Changes ----------- @@ -316,16 +373,17 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. .. code-block:: diff librte_acl.so.2 - librte_bitratestats.so.2 + + librte_bitratestats.so.2 librte_cfgfile.so.2 librte_cmdline.so.2 - librte_cryptodev.so.3 + + librte_cryptodev.so.4 librte_distributor.so.1 - librte_eal.so.5 - librte_ethdev.so.8 - librte_eventdev.so.3 + + librte_eal.so.6 + + librte_ethdev.so.8 + + librte_eventdev.so.3 + + librte_flow_classify.so.1 librte_gro.so.1 - librte_gso.so.1 + + librte_gso.so.1 librte_hash.so.2 librte_ip_frag.so.1 librte_jobstats.so.1 @@ -338,21 +396,22 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. librte_meter.so.1 librte_metrics.so.1 librte_net.so.1 - librte_pdump.so.2 + + librte_pdump.so.2 librte_pipeline.so.3 - librte_pmd_bnxt.so.2 - librte_pmd_bond.so.2 - librte_pmd_i40e.so.2 - librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2 + + librte_pmd_bnxt.so.2 + + librte_pmd_bond.so.2 + + librte_pmd_i40e.so.2 + + librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2 librte_pmd_ring.so.2 + librte_pmd_softnic.so.1 - librte_pmd_vhost.so.2 + + librte_pmd_vhost.so.2 librte_port.so.3 librte_power.so.1 librte_reorder.so.1 librte_ring.so.1 librte_sched.so.1 - librte_table.so.2 + + librte_security.so.1 + + librte_table.so.3 librte_timer.so.1 librte_vhost.so.3