X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_19_11.rst;h=21dc3d2c2562361bd2b35ef21a335244fe4a6ab7;hb=9bf26e1318e3cd7a04115c8201255505e90cab83;hp=03e58e0ac7f0673b7ef17c5dbefbc768ce4caf72;hpb=14d7ea259aebaacfa9326e54e881ab0e550f6a6e;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst index 03e58e0ac7..21dc3d2c25 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst @@ -77,6 +77,23 @@ New Features for specific offload features, where adding a static field or flag in the mbuf is not justified. +* **Added hairpin queue.** + + On supported NICs, we can now setup haipin queue which will offload packets + from the wire, backto the wire. + +* **Added flow tag in rte_flow.** + + SET_TAG action and TAG item have been added to support transient flow tag. + +* **Extended metadata support in rte_flow.** + + Flow metadata is extended to both Rx and Tx. + + * Tx metadata can also be set by SET_META action of rte_flow. + * Rx metadata is delivered to host via a dynamic field of ``rte_mbuf`` with + PKT_RX_DYNF_METADATA. + * **Updated the enic driver.** * Added support for Geneve with options offload. @@ -119,8 +136,6 @@ New Features ``rte_eth_tx_burst_mode_get`` that allow an application to retrieve the mode information about RX/TX packet burst such as Scalar or Vector, and Vector technology like AVX2. - Another new function ``rte_eth_burst_mode_option_name`` is - provided for burst mode options stringification. * **Updated the Intel ice driver.** @@ -161,6 +176,7 @@ New Features * Added support for VLAN set PCP offload command. * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command. * Added support for matching on packets withe Geneve tunnel header. + * Added hairpin support. * **Updated the AF_XDP PMD.** @@ -217,9 +233,13 @@ New Features * **Updated the IPSec library.** - Added SA Database API to ``librte_ipsec``. A new test-sad application is also - introduced to evaluate and perform custom functional and performance tests - for IPsec SAD implementation. + * Added SA Database API to ``librte_ipsec``. A new test-sad application is also + introduced to evaluate and perform custom functional and performance tests + for IPsec SAD implementation. + + * Support fragmented packets in inline crypto processing mode with fallback + ``lookaside-none`` session. Corresponding changes are also added in IPsec + Security Gateway application. * **Introduced FIFO for NTB PMD.** @@ -248,6 +268,15 @@ New Features traditional l2fwd example. It demonstrates usage of poll and event mode IO mechanism under a single application. +* **Added build support for Link Time Optimization.** + + LTO is an optimization technique used by the compiler to perform whole + program analysis and optimization at link time. In order to do that + compilers store their internal representation of the source code that + the linker uses at the final stage of compilation process. + + See :doc:`../prog_guide/lto` for more information: + Removed Items ------------- @@ -317,6 +346,11 @@ API Changes * mem: hid the internal ``malloc_heap`` structure and the ``rte_malloc_heap.h`` header. +* vfio: removed ``rte_vfio_dma_map`` and ``rte_vfio_dma_unmap`` that have + been marked as deprecated in release 19.05. + ``rte_vfio_container_dma_map`` and ``rte_vfio_container_dma_unmap`` can + be used as substitutes. + * pci: removed the following functions deprecated since dpdk v17.11: - ``eal_parse_pci_BDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse`` @@ -353,6 +387,21 @@ API Changes * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_owner_delete`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions. +* ethdev: The deprecated function ``rte_eth_dev_count`` was removed. + The function ``rte_eth_dev_count_avail`` is a drop-in replacement. + If the intent is to iterate over ports, ``RTE_ETH_FOREACH_*`` macros + are better port iterators. + +* ethdev: RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_META data endianness altered to host one. + Due to the new dynamic metadata field in mbuf is host-endian either, there + is the minor compatibility issue for applications in case of 32-bit values + supported. + +* ethdev: the tx_metadata mbuf field is moved to dymanic one. + PKT_TX_METADATA flag is replaced with PKT_TX_DYNF_METADATA. + DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_MATCH_METADATA offload flag is removed, now metadata + support in PMD is engaged on dynamic field registration. + * event: The function ``rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_enqueue`` takes an additional input as ``flags``. Flag ``RTE_EVENT_ETH_TX_ADAPTER_ENQUEUE_SAME_DEST`` which has been introduced in this release is used when used when all the packets @@ -385,6 +434,14 @@ ABI Changes align the Ethernet header on receive and all known encapsulations preserve the alignment of the header. +* security: The field ``replay_win_sz`` has been moved from ipsec library + based ``rte_ipsec_sa_prm`` structure to security library based structure + ``rte_security_ipsec_xform``, which specify the Anti replay window size + to enable sequence replay attack handling. + +* ipsec: The field ``replay_win_sz`` has been removed from the structure + ``rte_ipsec_sa_prm`` as it has been added to the security library. + Shared Library Versions ----------------------- @@ -428,7 +485,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. librte_gso.so.1 librte_hash.so.2 librte_ip_frag.so.1 - librte_ipsec.so.1 + + librte_ipsec.so.2 librte_jobstats.so.1 librte_kni.so.2 librte_kvargs.so.1 @@ -459,7 +516,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. librte_reorder.so.1 librte_ring.so.2 + librte_sched.so.4 - librte_security.so.2 + + librte_security.so.3 librte_stack.so.1 librte_table.so.3 librte_timer.so.1