cryptodev: add feature flags to disable

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_19_08.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
index 0c4c3b3..40d3079 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
@@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ New Features
   * Enabled generic filter framework and supported switch filter.
   * Supported UDP tunnel port add.
 
+* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
+
+  Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Updated the packet header modification feature. Added support of TCP header
+    sequence number and acknowledgment number modification.
+
 * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
 
   Updated the Solarflare ``sfc_efx`` driver with changes including:
@@ -120,6 +127,12 @@ New Features
   * Enabled need_wakeup feature which can provide efficient support for case
     that application and driver executing on the same core.
 
+* **Enabled infinite Rx in the PCAP PMD.**
+
+  Added an infinite Rx feature which allows packets in the Rx PCAP of a PCAP
+  device to be received repeatedly at a high rate. This can be useful for quick
+  performance testing of DPDK apps.
+
 * **Added Intel QuickData Technology PMD**
 
   The PMD for Intel\ |reg|  QuickData Technology, part of
@@ -223,6 +236,16 @@ ABI Changes
   Add a Rx adapter stats field to keep track of the total
   number of dropped packets.
 
+* cryptodev: New member in ``rte_cryptodev_config`` to allow applications to
+  disable features supported by the crypto device. Only the following features
+  would be allowed to be disabled this way,
+
+  - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_SYMMETRIC_CRYPTO``
+  - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_ASYMMETRIC_CRYPTO``
+  - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_SECURITY``
+
+  Disabling unused features would facilitate efficient usage of HW/SW offload.
+
 
 Shared Library Versions
 -----------------------
@@ -254,7 +277,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_cfgfile.so.2
      librte_cmdline.so.2
      librte_compressdev.so.1
-     librte_cryptodev.so.7
+   + librte_cryptodev.so.8
      librte_distributor.so.1
    + librte_eal.so.11
      librte_efd.so.1