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=0ac2be28aad03fae4e1b1db27f04f2f8a8b15321;hpb=ea7768b5bba8a8a21355c06f6fc5f51f3aafc4a0;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst index 0ac2be28aa..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. @@ -76,6 +88,15 @@ New Features Subsystem 3(HNS3) network engine found in the Hisilicon Kunpeng 920 SoC. See the :doc:`../nics/hns3` guide for more details on this new driver. +* **Added NXP PFE PMD.** + + Added the new PFE driver for the NXP LS1012A platform. See the + :doc:`../nics/pfe` NIC driver guide for more details on this new driver. + +* **Updated iavf PMD.** + + Enable AVX2 data path for iavf PMD. + * **Updated the Intel e1000 driver.** Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag. @@ -92,6 +113,15 @@ New Features Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag. +* **Added RX/TX packet burst mode get API.** + + Added two new functions ``rte_eth_rx_burst_mode_get`` and + ``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.** Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including: @@ -99,13 +129,46 @@ New Features * Added support for device-specific DDP package loading. * Added support for handling Receive Flex Descriptor. * Added support for protocol extraction on per Rx queue. + * Added support for Flow Director filter based on generic filter framework. * Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag. + * 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.** Added session-less option to cryptodev asymmetric structure. It works the same way as symmetric crypto, corresponding xform is used directly by the crypto op. +* **Updated the Huawei hinic driver.** + + Updated the Huawei hinic driver with new features and improvements, including: + + * Enabled SR-IOV - Partially supported at this point, VFIO only. + * Supported VLAN filter and VLAN offload. + * Supported Unicast MAC filter and Multicast MAC filter. + * Supported Flow director for LACP, VRRP, BGP and so on. + * Supported FW version get. + +* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.** + + Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added support for VLAN pop flow offload command. + * Added support for VLAN push flow offload command. + * 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. + +* **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. @@ -168,6 +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 @@ -198,6 +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 ----------- @@ -214,6 +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. @@ -243,6 +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 ----------- @@ -259,6 +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 ----------------------- @@ -292,10 +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 @@ -313,7 +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 @@ -327,10 +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 @@ -372,12 +491,3 @@ Tested Platforms Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= -* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.** - - Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including: - - * Added support for VLAN pop flow offload command. - * Added support for VLAN push flow offload command. - * Added support for VLAN set PCP offload command. - * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command. -