doc: update release notes for mlx5 driver

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
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--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
@@ -59,6 +59,20 @@ New Features
   "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this new
   driver.
 
+* **Updated mlx5 driver.**
+
+  Updated the mlx5 driver including the following changes:
+
+   * Enabled PMD to run on top of upstream linux kernel and rdma-core libs.
+     By that removed the dependency on specific Mellanox OFED libraries.
+   * Improved PMD latency performance.
+   * Improved PMD memory footprint.
+   * Supported vectorized Rx/Tx burst for ARMv8.
+   * Supported secondary process.
+   * Supported flow counters.
+   * Supported Rx hardware timestamp offload.
+   * Supported device removal event.
+
 * **Added SoftNIC PMD.**
 
   Added new SoftNIC PMD. This virtual device offers applications a software