ethdev: move egress metadata to dynamic field

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_19_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
index fe11b4b..21dc3d2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
@@ -77,6 +77,23 @@ New Features
   for specific offload features, where adding a static field or flag
   in the mbuf is not justified.
 
+* **Added hairpin queue.**
+
+  On supported NICs, we can now setup haipin queue which will offload packets
+  from the wire, backto the wire.
+
+* **Added flow tag in rte_flow.**
+
+  SET_TAG action and TAG item have been added to support transient flow tag.
+
+* **Extended metadata support in rte_flow.**
+
+  Flow metadata is extended to both Rx and Tx.
+
+  * Tx metadata can also be set by SET_META action of rte_flow.
+  * Rx metadata is delivered to host via a dynamic field of ``rte_mbuf`` with
+    PKT_RX_DYNF_METADATA.
+
 * **Updated the enic driver.**
 
   * Added support for Geneve with options offload.
@@ -119,8 +136,6 @@ New Features
   ``rte_eth_tx_burst_mode_get`` that allow an application
   to retrieve the mode information about RX/TX packet burst
   such as Scalar or Vector, and Vector technology like AVX2.
-  Another new function ``rte_eth_burst_mode_option_name`` is
-  provided for burst mode options stringification.
 
 * **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
 
@@ -161,6 +176,7 @@ New Features
   * Added support for VLAN set PCP offload command.
   * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command.
   * Added support for matching on packets withe Geneve tunnel header.
+  * Added hairpin support.
 
 * **Updated the AF_XDP PMD.**
 
@@ -217,9 +233,13 @@ New Features
 
 * **Updated the IPSec library.**
 
-  Added SA Database API to ``librte_ipsec``. A new test-sad application is also
-  introduced to evaluate and perform custom functional and performance tests
-  for IPsec SAD implementation.
+  * Added SA Database API to ``librte_ipsec``. A new test-sad application is also
+    introduced to evaluate and perform custom functional and performance tests
+    for IPsec SAD implementation.
+
+  * Support fragmented packets in inline crypto processing mode with fallback
+    ``lookaside-none`` session. Corresponding changes are also added in IPsec
+    Security Gateway application.
 
 * **Introduced FIFO for NTB PMD.**
 
@@ -248,6 +268,15 @@ New Features
   traditional l2fwd example. It demonstrates usage of poll and event mode IO
   mechanism under a single application.
 
+* **Added build support for Link Time Optimization.**
+
+  LTO is an optimization technique used by the compiler to perform whole
+  program analysis and optimization at link time.  In order to do that
+  compilers store their internal representation of the source code that
+  the linker uses at the final stage of compilation process.
+
+  See :doc:`../prog_guide/lto` for more information:
+
 
 Removed Items
 -------------
@@ -358,6 +387,21 @@ API Changes
 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_owner_delete`` return value from ``void`` to
   ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
 
+* ethdev: The deprecated function ``rte_eth_dev_count`` was removed.
+  The function ``rte_eth_dev_count_avail`` is a drop-in replacement.
+  If the intent is to iterate over ports, ``RTE_ETH_FOREACH_*`` macros
+  are better port iterators.
+
+* ethdev: RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_META data endianness altered to host one.
+  Due to the new dynamic metadata field in mbuf is host-endian either, there
+  is the minor compatibility issue for applications in case of 32-bit values
+  supported.
+
+* ethdev: the tx_metadata mbuf field is moved to dymanic one.
+  PKT_TX_METADATA flag is replaced with PKT_TX_DYNF_METADATA.
+  DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_MATCH_METADATA offload flag is removed, now metadata
+  support in PMD is engaged on dynamic field registration.
+
 * event: The function ``rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_enqueue`` takes an additional
   input as ``flags``. Flag ``RTE_EVENT_ETH_TX_ADAPTER_ENQUEUE_SAME_DEST`` which
   has been introduced in this release is used when used when all the packets
@@ -390,6 +434,14 @@ ABI Changes
   align the Ethernet header on receive and all known encapsulations
   preserve the alignment of the header.
 
+* security: The field ``replay_win_sz`` has been moved from ipsec library
+  based ``rte_ipsec_sa_prm`` structure to security library based structure
+  ``rte_security_ipsec_xform``, which specify the Anti replay window size
+  to enable sequence replay attack handling.
+
+* ipsec: The field ``replay_win_sz`` has been removed from the structure
+  ``rte_ipsec_sa_prm`` as it has been added to the security library.
+
 
 Shared Library Versions
 -----------------------
@@ -433,7 +485,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_gso.so.1
      librte_hash.so.2
      librte_ip_frag.so.1
-     librte_ipsec.so.1
+   + librte_ipsec.so.2
      librte_jobstats.so.1
      librte_kni.so.2
      librte_kvargs.so.1
@@ -464,7 +516,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_reorder.so.1
      librte_ring.so.2
    + librte_sched.so.4
-     librte_security.so.2
+   + librte_security.so.3
      librte_stack.so.1
      librte_table.so.3
      librte_timer.so.1