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44 * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
45 * Device abstraction libs and PMDs
47 - cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
48 - eventdev (lib, PMDs)
51 * Apps, Examples, Tools (if significant)
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57 * **Added Stack API.**
59 Added a new stack API for configuration and use of a bounded stack of
60 pointers. The API provides MT-safe push and pop operations that can operate
61 on one or more pointers per operation.
63 The library supports two stack implementations: standard (lock-based) and lock-free.
64 The lock-free implementation is currently limited to x86-64 platforms.
66 * **Added Lock-Free Stack Mempool Handler.**
68 Added a new lock-free stack handler, which uses the newly added stack
71 * **Added RCU library.**
73 Added RCU library supporting quiescent state based memory reclamation method.
74 This library helps identify the quiescent state of the reader threads so
75 that the writers can free the memory associated with the lock free data
78 * **Updated KNI module and PMD.**
80 Updated the KNI kernel module to set the max_mtu according to the given
81 initial MTU size. Without it, the maximum MTU was 1500.
83 Updated the KNI PMD driver to set the mbuf_size and MTU based on
84 the given mb-pool. This provide the ability to pass jumbo frames
85 if the mb-pool contains suitable buffers' size.
87 * **Added the AF_XDP PMD.**
89 Added a Linux-specific PMD driver for AF_XDP, it can create the AF_XDP socket
90 and bind it to a specific netdev queue, it allows a DPDK application to send
91 and receive raw packets through the socket which would bypass the kernel
92 network stack to achieve high performance packet processing.
94 * **Added a net PMD NFB.**
96 Added the new ``nfb`` net driver for Netcope NFB cards. See
97 the :doc:`../nics/nfb` NIC guide for more details on this new driver.
99 * **Added IPN3KE net PMD.**
101 Added the new ``ipn3ke`` net driver for IntelĀ® FPGA PAC(Programmable
102 Acceleration Card) N3000. See the :doc:`../nics/ipn3ke` NIC guide for more
103 details on this new driver.
105 Aside from this, ifpga_rawdev is also updated to support IntelĀ® FPGA PAC
106 N3000 with SPI interface access, I2C Read/Write and Ethernet PHY configuration.
108 * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
110 Updated the sfc_efx driver including the following changes:
112 * Added support for Rx descriptor status and related API in a secondary
114 * Added support for Tx descriptor status API in a secondary process.
115 * Added support for RSS RETA and hash configuration get API in a secondary
117 * Added support for Rx packet types list in a secondary process.
118 * Added Tx prepare to do Tx offloads checks.
119 * Added support for VXLAN and GENEVE encapsulated TSO.
121 * **Updated Mellanox drivers.**
123 New features and improvements were done in mlx4 and mlx5 PMDs:
125 * Added firmware version reading.
127 * **Renamed avf to iavf.**
129 Renamed Intel Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function driver ``avf`` to ``iavf``,
130 which includes the directory name, lib name, filenames, makefile, docs,
131 macros, functions, structs and any other strings in the code.
133 * **Updated the enic driver.**
135 * Fixed several flow (director) bugs related to MARK, SCTP, VLAN, VXLAN, and
136 inner packet matching.
137 * Added limited support for RAW.
138 * Added limited support for RSS.
139 * Added limited support for PASSTHRU.
141 * **Updated the ixgbe driver.**
145 * Added promiscuous mode support.
147 * **Updated the ice driver.**
149 * Added support of SSE and AVX2 instructions in Rx and Tx paths.
150 * Added package download support.
151 * Added Safe Mode support.
152 * Supported RSS for UPD/TCP/SCTP+IPV4/IPV6 packets.
154 * **Updated the i40e driver.**
158 * Added support for VXLAN-GPE packet.
159 * Added support for VXLAN-GPE classification.
161 * **Updated the ENETC driver.**
165 * Added physical addressing mode support
166 * Added SXGMII interface support
167 * Added basic statistics support
168 * Added promiscuous and allmulticast mode support
169 * Added MTU update support
170 * Added jumbo frame support
171 * Added queue start/stop
172 * Added CRC offload support
173 * Added Rx checksum offload validation support
175 * **Updated the atlantic PMD.**
177 Added MACSEC hardware offload experimental API.
179 * **Updated the QuickAssist Technology PMD.**
181 Added support for AES-XTS with 128 and 256 bit AES keys.
183 * **Added Intel QuickAssist Technology PMD for asymmetric crypto.**
185 A new QAT Crypto PMD has been added, which provides asymmetric cryptography
186 algorithms, in this release modular exponentiation and modular multiplicative
187 inverse algorithms were added.
189 * **Updated AESNI-MB PMD.**
191 Added support for out-of-place operations.
193 * **Updated the IPsec library.**
195 The IPsec library has been updated with AES-CTR and 3DES-CBC cipher algorithms
196 support. The related ipsec-secgw test scripts have been added.
198 * **Updated the testpmd application.**
200 Improved testpmd application performance on ARM platform. For ``macswap``
201 forwarding mode, NEON intrinsics were used to do swap to save CPU cycles.
207 .. This section should contain removed items in this release. Sample format:
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223 which was announced in the previous releases and made in this release.
224 Start with a scope label like "ethdev:".
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232 * eal: the type of the ``attr_value`` parameter of the function
233 ``rte_service_attr_get()`` has been changed
234 from ``uint32_t *`` to ``uint64_t *``.
236 * meter: replace ``enum rte_meter_color`` in meter library with new
237 ``rte_color`` definition added in 19.02. To consolidate mulitple color
238 definitions replicated at many places such as: rte_mtr.h, rte_tm.h,
239 replacements with rte_color values are done.
241 * vfio: Functions ``rte_vfio_container_dma_map`` and
242 ``rte_vfio_container_dma_unmap`` have been extended with an option to
243 request mapping or un-mapping to the default vfio container fd.
245 * power: ``rte_power_set_env`` and ``rte_power_unset_env`` functions
246 have been modified to be thread safe.
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264 * ethdev: Additional fields in rte_eth_dev_info.
266 The ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure has had two extra fields
267 added: ``min_mtu`` and ``max_mtu``. Each of these are of type ``uint16_t``.
268 The values of these fields can be set specifically by the PMD drivers as
269 supported values can vary from device to device.
271 * cryptodev: in 18.08 new structure ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` was introduced and
272 included into ``rte_crypto_op``. As ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` structure was
273 defined as cache-line aligned that caused unintended changes in
274 ``rte_crypto_op`` structure layout and alignment. Remove cache-line
275 alignment for ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` to restore expected ``rte_crypto_op``
276 layout and alignment.
279 Shared Library Versions
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282 .. Update any library version updated in this release
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292 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
298 librte_bitratestats.so.2
301 librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
302 librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
305 librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
308 librte_compressdev.so.1
309 + librte_cryptodev.so.7
310 librte_distributor.so.1
313 + librte_ethdev.so.12
315 librte_flow_classify.so.1
324 librte_latencystats.so.1
338 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
339 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
341 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
342 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
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371 * **On x86 platforms, AVX512 support is disabled with binutils 2.31**
373 Because a defect in binutils 2.31 AVX512 support is disabled.
374 DPDK defect: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249
375 GCC defect: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90028
377 * **No software AES-XTS implementation.**
379 There are currently no cryptodev software PMDs available which implement
380 support for the AES-XTS algorithm, so this feature can only be used
381 if compatible hardware and an associated PMD is available.
387 .. This section should contain a list of platforms that were tested
392 * <vendor> platform with <vendor> <type of devices> combinations
397 * Other relevant details...
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