X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_20_05.rst;h=e99efcc49aaf0928a170198772a782925cde271a;hb=44bf3c796be3f747eba5d4904d93614ff300e688;hp=709372e5e5ef85b6ea03d2e583aa9a28c3622419;hpb=664ff4b1729b090ca13e8c76897a2914fd00be20;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst index 709372e5e5..e99efcc49a 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. @@ -72,11 +82,87 @@ 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). +* **Added flow aging support.** + + Added flow aging support to detect and report aged-out flows, including: + + * Added new action: ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_AGE`` to set the timeout + and the application flow context for each flow. + * Added new event: ``RTE_ETH_EVENT_FLOW_AGED`` for the driver to report + that there are new aged-out flows. + * Added new query: ``rte_flow_get_aged_flows`` to get the aged-out flows + contexts from the port. + +* **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. + * Added advanced iavf with FDIR capability. + +* **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. + * Optimized the memory consumption of flow. + +* **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.** @@ -85,17 +171,45 @@ 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 + is too small for Huffman dynamic compression operation. Instead of falling + back to fixed compression, the operation is now split into multiple smaller + dynamic compression requests (possible to execute on QAT) and their results + are then combined and copied into the output buffer. This is not possible if + any checksum calculation was requested - in such case the code falls back to + fixed compression as before. + * **Updated the turbo_sw bbdev PMD.** Supported large size code blocks which does not fit in one mbuf segment. -* **Added event mode to ipsec-secgw application.** +* **Added Intel FPGA_5GNR_FEC bbdev PMD.** + + Added a new ``fpga_5gnr_fec`` bbdev driver for the Intel\ |reg| FPGA PAC + (Programmable Acceleration Card) N3000. See the + :doc:`../bbdevs/fpga_5gnr_fec` BBDEV guide for more details on this new driver. + +* **Updated ipsec-secgw sample application with following features.** + + * Updated ipsec-secgw application to add event based packet processing. + The worker thread(s) would receive events and submit them back to the + event device after the processing. This way, multicore scaling and HW + assisted scheduling is achieved by making use of the event device + capabilities. The event mode currently supports only inline IPsec + protocol offload. + + * Updated ipsec-secgw application to support key sizes for AES-192-CBC, + AES-192-GCM, AES-256-GCM algorithms. - Updated ipsec-secgw application to add event based packet processing. The worker - thread(s) would receive events and submit them back to the event device after - the processing. This way, multicore scaling and HW assisted scheduling is achieved - by making use of the event device capabilities. The event mode currently supports - only inline IPsec protocol offload. + * Added IPsec inbound load-distribution support for ipsec-secgw application + using NIC load distribution feature(Flow Director). Removed Items