memory that was created outside of DPDK's own page allocator, and using that
memory natively with any other DPDK library or data structure.
+* **Added check for ensuring allocated memory addressable by devices.**
+
+ Some devices can have addressing limitations so a new function,
+ ``rte_mem_check_dma_mask``, has been added for checking allocated memory is
+ not out of the device range. Because now memory can be dynamically allocated
+ after initialization, a dma mask is kept and any new allocated memory will be
+ checked out against that dma mask and rejected if out of range. If more than
+ one device has addressing limitations, the dma mask is the more restricted one.
+
* **Added hot-unplug handle mechanism.**
``rte_dev_hotplug_handle_enable`` and ``rte_dev_hotplug_handle_disable`` are
* Added support for Tx descriptor status API in EF10 (ef10 and ef10_simple)
datapaths implementation.
+* **Updated the enic driver.**
+
+ * Added AVX2-based vectorized Rx handler.
+ * Added VLAN and checksum offloads to the simple Tx handler.
+ * Added the count flow action.
+ * Enabled the virtual address IOVA mode.
+
* **Updated failsafe driver.**
Updated the failsafe driver including the following changes:
A new devarg ``phy_mac`` was introduced to allow users to use physical
MAC address of the selected PCAP interface.
+* **Added TAP Rx/Tx queues sharing with a secondary process.**
+
+ A secondary process can attach a TAP device created in the primary process,
+ probe the queues, and process Rx/Tx in a secondary process.
+
+* **Added classification and metering support to SoftNIC PMD.**
+
+ Added support for flow classification (rte_flow API), and metering and
+ policing (rte_mtr API) to the SoftNIC PMD.
+
+* **Added Crypto support to Softnic PMD.**
+
+ The Softnic is now capable of processing symmetric crypto workloads such
+ as cipher, cipher-authentication chaining, and aead encryption and
+ decryption. This is achieved by calling DPDK Cryptodev APIs.
+
+* **Added cryptodev port to port library.**
+
+ Cryptodev port is a shim layer in the port library that interacts with DPDK
+ Cryptodev PMDs including burst enqueuing and dequeuing crypto operations.
+
+* **Added symmetric cryptographic actions to the pipeline library.**
+
+ In the pipeline library an added symmetric crypto action parsing and action
+ handler are implemented. The action allows automatically preparing the crypto
+ operation with the rules specified such as algorithm, key, and IV, etc for
+ the cryptodev port to process.
+
* **Added support for GEN3 devices to Intel QAT driver .**
Added support for the third generation of Intel QuickAssist devices.
Added the new caam job ring driver for NXP platforms. See the
"NXP CAAM JOB RING (caam_jr)" document for more details on this new driver.
+* **Added support for Dynamic Huffman Encoding to Intel QAT comp PMD.**
+
+ The Intel QuickAssist (QAT) compression PMD has been updated with support
+ for Dynamic Huffman Encoding for the Deflate algorithm.
+
* **Added Event Ethernet Tx Adapter.**
Added event ethernet Tx adapter library that provides configuration and
to containers and host applications that need to have their cores frequency
controlled based on the rules contained in the policy.
+* **Added Telemetry API.**
+
+ Added the telemetry API which allows applications to transparently expose
+ their telemetry via a UNIX socket in JSON. The JSON can be consumed by any
+ Service Assurance agent, such as CollectD.
+
* **Added ability to switch queue deferred start flag on testpmd app.**
Added a console command to testpmd app, giving ability to switch
this application doesn't need to launch dedicated worker threads for vhost
enqueue/dequeue operations.
+* **Added cryptodev FIPS validation example application.**
+
+ Added an example application to parse and perform symmetric cryptography
+ computation to the NIST Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP)
+ test vectors.
+
API Changes
-----------
* eal: The parameters of the function ``rte_devargs_remove()`` have changed
from bus and device names to ``struct rte_devargs``.
+* eal: The deprecated functions attach/detach were removed in 18.11.
+ ``rte_eal_dev_attach`` can be replaced by
+ ``rte_dev_probe`` or ``rte_eal_hotplug_add``.
+ ``rte_eal_dev_detach`` can be replaced by
+ ``rte_dev_remove`` or ``rte_eal_hotplug_remove``.
+
* eal: The scope of ``rte_eal_hotplug_add()``/``rte_dev_probe()``
and ``rte_eal_hotplug_remove()``/``rte_dev_remove()`` is extended.
In multi-process model, they will guarantee that the device is
functions were deprecated since 17.05 and are replaced by
``rte_mbuf_raw_free()`` and ``rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg()``.
+* ethdev: The deprecated functions attach/detach were removed in 18.11.
+ ``rte_eth_dev_attach`` can be replaced by ``RTE_ETH_FOREACH_MATCHING_DEV``
+ and ``rte_dev_probe`` or ``rte_eal_hotplug_add``.
+ ``rte_eth_dev_detach`` can be replaced by
+ ``rte_dev_remove`` or ``rte_eal_hotplug_remove``.
+
+* ethdev: A call to ``rte_eth_dev_release_port()`` has been added in
+ ``rte_eth_dev_close()``. As a consequence, a closed port is freed
+ and seen as invalid because of its state ``RTE_ETH_DEV_UNUSED``.
+ This new behaviour is enabled per driver for a migration period.
+
* A new device flag, RTE_ETH_DEV_NOLIVE_MAC_ADDR, changes the order of
actions inside rte_eth_dev_start regarding MAC set. Some NICs do not
support MAC changes once the port has started and with this new device
- structure ``rte_eal_memconfig`` has been extended to contain next
socket ID for externally allocated segments
+* eal: Added ``dma_maskbits`` to ``rte_mem_config`` for keeping more restricted
+ dma mask based on devices addressing limitations.
+
* eal: The structure ``rte_device`` got a new field to reference a ``rte_bus``.
It is changing the size of the ``struct rte_device`` and the inherited
device structures of all buses.
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