X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_19_11.rst;h=810548f1de9978214cd59f51e55b54a2f0b36e15;hb=84626a0d61a624dad11614946accc8eebd52353b;hp=055de8f2e3b53dbbffd1d3e56f4659e53f8b4bb5;hpb=af0c246a38000942d2727980100ab71e0d29e0f3;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst index 055de8f2e3..810548f1de 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst @@ -65,6 +65,18 @@ New Features The lock-free stack implementation is enabled for aarch64 platforms. +* **Changed mempool allocation behaviour.** + + Objects are no longer across pages by default. + It may consume more memory when using small memory pages. + +* **Added support of dynamic fields and flags in mbuf.** + + This new feature adds the ability to dynamically register some room + for a field or a flag in the mbuf structure. This is typically used + for specific offload features, where adding a static field or flag + in the mbuf is not justified. + * **Updated the enic driver.** * Added support for Geneve with options offload. @@ -122,6 +134,8 @@ New Features * Generic filter enhancement - Supported pipeline mode. - Supported new packet type like PPPoE for switch filter. + * Supported input set change and symmetric hash by rte_flow RSS action. + * Added support for GTP Tx checksum offload. * **Added cryptodev asymmetric session-less operation.** @@ -148,6 +162,13 @@ New Features * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command. * Added support for matching on packets withe Geneve tunnel header. +* **Updated the AF_XDP PMD.** + + Updated the AF_XDP PMD. The new features include: + + * Enabled zero copy between application mempools and UMEM by enabling the + XDP_UMEM_UNALIGNED_CHUNKS UMEM flag. + * **Added Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.** Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Marvell NITROX V security processor. @@ -210,6 +231,12 @@ New Features Added eBPF JIT support for arm64 architecture to improve the eBPF program performance. +* **Added RIB and FIB (Routing/Forwarding Information Base) libraries.** + + RIB and FIB can replace the LPM (Longest Prefix Match) library + with better control plane (RIB) performance. + The data plane (FIB) can be extended with new algorithms. + * **Updated testpmd.** * Added a console command to testpmd app, ``show port (port_id) ptypes`` which @@ -240,6 +267,17 @@ Removed Items ipv4_cksum|udp_cksum|tcp_cksum|timestamp| vlan_strip|vlan_filter|vlan_extend on|off +* Removed AF_XDP pmd_zero copy vdev argument. Support is now auto-detected. + +* The following sample applications have been removed in this release: + + * Exception Path + * L3 Forwarding in a Virtualization Environment + * Load Balancer + * Netmap Compatibility + * Quota and Watermark + * vhost-scsi + API Changes ----------- @@ -256,6 +294,32 @@ API Changes Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* eal: made the ``lcore_config`` struct and global symbol private. + +* eal: removed the ``rte_cpu_check_supported`` function, replaced by + ``rte_cpu_is_supported`` since dpdk v17.08. + +* eal: removed the ``rte_malloc_virt2phy`` function, replaced by + ``rte_malloc_virt2iova`` since v17.11. + +* eal: made the ``rte_config`` struct and ``rte_eal_get_configuration`` + function private. + +* mem: hid the internal ``malloc_heap`` structure and the + ``rte_malloc_heap.h`` header. + +* pci: removed the following functions deprecated since dpdk v17.11: + + - ``eal_parse_pci_BDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse`` + - ``eal_parse_pci_DomBDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse`` + - ``rte_eal_compare_pci_addr`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_cmp`` + +* The network structure ``esp_tail`` has been prefixed by ``rte_``. + +* The network definitions of PPPoE ethertypes have been prefixed by ``RTE_``. + +* The network structure for MPLS has been prefixed by ``rte_``. + * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_infos_get`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions. @@ -285,6 +349,11 @@ API Changes has been introduced in this release is used when used when all the packets enqueued in the tx adapter are destined for the same Ethernet port & Tx queue. +* sched: The pipe nodes configuration parameters such as number of pipes, + pipe queue sizes, pipe profiles, etc., are moved from port level structure + to subport level. This allows different subports of the same port to + have different configuration for the pipe nodes. + ABI Changes ----------- @@ -301,6 +370,12 @@ ABI Changes Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* net: The Ethernet address and other header definitions have changed + attributes. They have been modified to be aligned on 2-byte boundaries. + These changes should not impact normal usage because drivers naturally + align the Ethernet header on receive and all known encapsulations + preserve the alignment of the header. + Shared Library Versions ----------------------- @@ -334,10 +409,11 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. librte_compressdev.so.1 librte_cryptodev.so.8 librte_distributor.so.1 - librte_eal.so.11 + + librte_eal.so.12 librte_efd.so.1 + librte_ethdev.so.13 + librte_eventdev.so.8 + + librte_fib.so.1 librte_flow_classify.so.1 librte_gro.so.1 librte_gso.so.1 @@ -355,7 +431,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. librte_meter.so.3 librte_metrics.so.1 librte_net.so.1 - librte_pci.so.1 + + librte_pci.so.2 librte_pdump.so.3 librte_pipeline.so.3 librte_pmd_bnxt.so.2 @@ -369,10 +445,11 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. librte_port.so.3 librte_power.so.1 librte_rawdev.so.1 + + librte_rib.so.1 librte_rcu.so.1 librte_reorder.so.1 librte_ring.so.2 - librte_sched.so.3 + + librte_sched.so.4 librte_security.so.2 librte_stack.so.1 librte_table.so.3