X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_20_05.rst;h=12b7b8dc63f4bdab690c5a28a356472f42401e7b;hb=02a95625fe9c23dd7fb4cd7e4175c51db695be27;hp=3f87203c6408abd556da98d8a0187516ffbd43e2;hpb=0b5927cbcba7064445c35e5a412b460990829977;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst index 3f87203c64..12b7b8dc63 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst @@ -56,6 +56,16 @@ New Features Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* **Added Trace Library and Tracepoints** + + A native implementation of ``common trace format(CTF)`` based trace library + has been added to provide the ability to add tracepoints in + application/library to get runtime trace/debug information for control and + fast APIs with minimum impact on fast path performance. + Typical trace overhead is ~20 cycles and instrumentation overhead is 1 cycle. + Added tracepoints in ``EAL``, ``ethdev``, ``cryptodev``, ``eventdev`` and + ``mempool`` libraries for important functions. + * **Added new API for rte_ring.** * New synchronization modes for rte_ring. @@ -72,17 +82,75 @@ New Features (enqueue/dequeue start; enqueue/dequeue finish). That allows user to inspect objects in the ring without removing them from it (aka MT safe peek). +* **Updated Amazon ena driver.** + + Updated ena PMD with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added support for large LLQ (Low-latency queue) headers. + * Added Tx drops as new extended driver statistic. + * Added support for accelerated LLQ mode. + * Handling of the 0 length descriptors on the Rx path. + +* **Updated Intel i40e driver.** + + Updated i40e PMD with new features and improvements, including: + + * Enable MAC address as FDIR input set for ipv4-other, ipv4-udp and ipv4-tcp. + * Added support for RSS using L3/L4 source/destination only. + * Added support for setting hash function in rte flow. + +* **Updated the Intel iavf driver.** + + Update the Intel iavf driver with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added generic filter support. + +* **Updated the Intel ice driver.** + + Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added support for DCF (Device Config Function) feature. + * Added switch filter support for intel DCF. + +* **Updated Marvell OCTEON TX2 ethdev driver.** + + Updated Marvell OCTEON TX2 ethdev driver with traffic manager support with + below features. + + * Hierarchial Scheduling with DWRR and SP. + * Single rate - Two color, Two rate - Three color shaping. + * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.** Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including: * Added support for matching on IPv4 Time To Live and IPv6 Hop Limit. + * Added support for creating Relaxed Ordering Memory Regions. + * Added support for jumbo frame size (9K MTU) in Multi-Packet RQ mode. * **Updated the AESNI MB crypto PMD.** + * Added support for intel-ipsec-mb version 0.54. * Updated the AESNI MB PMD with AES-256 DOCSIS algorithm. * Added support for synchronous Crypto burst API. +* **Updated the AESNI GCM crypto PMD.** + + * Added support for intel-ipsec-mb version 0.54. + +* **Added a new driver for Intel Foxville I225 devices.** + + Added the new ``igc`` net driver for Intel Foxville I225 devices. See the + :doc:`../nics/igc` NIC guide for more details on this new driver. + +* **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.** + + Updated Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added support for host based flow table management + * Added flow counters to extended stats + * Added PCI function stats to extended stats + * **Added handling of mixed crypto algorithms in QAT PMD for GEN2.** Enabled handling of mixed algorithms in encrypted digest hash-cipher @@ -90,6 +158,11 @@ New Features when running on GEN2 QAT hardware with particular firmware versions (GEN3 support was added in DPDK 20.02). +* **Added plain SHA-1,224,256,384,512 support to QAT PMD.** + + Added support for plain SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 hashes + to QAT PMD. + * **Added QAT intermediate buffer too small handling in QAT compression PMD.** Added a special way of buffer handling when internal QAT intermediate buffer