X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_19_11.rst;h=c14a08af4f803b99658b70f43a5a96286c7949b2;hb=4958ca3a443a33ed49b2601232349037dbb7124f;hp=e9930ce93f692c23398475cfc60e916495ee531c;hpb=c02a96fc4aec932ef3af69f0df3bd4359ef8b375;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst index e9930ce93f..c14a08af4f 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst @@ -65,9 +65,17 @@ New Features The lock-free stack implementation is enabled for aarch64 platforms. +* **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. + * Added flow API implementation based on VIC Flow Manager API. * **Added Hisilicon hns3 PMD.** @@ -75,6 +83,15 @@ 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. @@ -91,6 +108,15 @@ 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: @@ -98,13 +124,46 @@ 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. @@ -197,6 +256,8 @@ 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. + API Changes ----------- @@ -242,6 +303,11 @@ 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 ----------- @@ -329,7 +395,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. 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 @@ -371,12 +437,3 @@ 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. -