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+* **FreeBSD now supports `--base-virtaddr` EAL option.**
+
+ FreeBSD version now also supports setting base virtual address for mapping
+ pages and resources into its address space.
+
* **Added Lock-free Stack for aarch64.**
The lock-free stack implementation is enabled for aarch64 platforms.
+* **Extended pktmbuf mempool private structure.**
+
+ rte_pktmbuf_pool_private structure was extended to include flags field
+ for future compatibility.
+ As per 19.11 release this field is reserved and should be set to 0
+ by the user.
+
+* **Changed mempool allocation behaviour.**
+
+ Objects are no longer across pages by default.
+ It may consume more memory when using small memory pages.
+
+* **Added support of dynamic fields and flags in mbuf.**
+
+ This new feature adds the ability to dynamically register some room
+ for a field or a flag in the mbuf structure. This is typically used
+ 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.
+
+* **Added ethdev API to set supported packet types**
+
+ * Added new API ``rte_eth_dev_set_ptypes`` that allows an application to
+ inform PMD about reduced range of packet types to handle.
+ * This scheme will allow PMDs to avoid lookup to internal ptype table on Rx
+ and thereby improve Rx performance if application wishes do so.
+
+* **Added Rx offload flag to enable or disable RSS update**
+
+ * Added new Rx offload flag `DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_RSS_HASH` which can be used to
+ enable/disable PMDs write to `rte_mbuf::hash::rss`.
+ * PMDs notify the validity of `rte_mbuf::hash:rss` to the application
+ by enabling `PKT_RX_RSS_HASH ` flag in `rte_mbuf::ol_flags`.
+
+* **Updated the enic driver.**
+
+ * Added support for Geneve with options offload.
+ * Added flow API implementation based on VIC Flow Manager API.
+
* **Added Hisilicon hns3 PMD.**
Added the new ``hns3`` net driver for the inbuilt Hisilicon Network
Subsystem 3(HNS3) network engine found in the Hisilicon Kunpeng 920 SoC.
See the :doc:`../nics/hns3` guide for more details on this new driver.
+* **Added NXP PFE PMD.**
+
+ Added the new PFE driver for the NXP LS1012A platform. See the
+ :doc:`../nics/pfe` NIC driver guide for more details on this new driver.
+
+* **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.**
+
+ Updated Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Added support for hot firmware upgrade.
+ * Added support for error recovery.
+ * Added support for querying and using COS classification in hardware.
+ * Added LRO support Thor devices.
+ * Update HWRM API to version 1.10.1.6
+
+* **Updated iavf PMD.**
+
+ Enable AVX2 data path for iavf PMD.
+
* **Updated the Intel e1000 driver.**
Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
+* **Added RX/TX packet burst mode get API.**
+
+ Added two new functions ``rte_eth_rx_burst_mode_get`` and
+ ``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.
+
* **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
* Added support for device-specific DDP package loading.
* Added support for handling Receive Flex Descriptor.
* Added support for protocol extraction on per Rx queue.
+ * Added support for Flow Director filter based on generic filter framework.
* Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
+ * Generic filter enhancement
+ - Supported pipeline mode.
+ - Supported new packet type like PPPoE for switch filter.
+ * Supported input set change and symmetric hash by rte_flow RSS action.
+ * Added support for GTP Tx checksum offload.
+ * Added new device IDs to support E810_XXV devices.
+
+* **Added cryptodev asymmetric session-less operation.**
+
+ Added session-less option to cryptodev asymmetric structure. It works the same
+ way as symmetric crypto, corresponding xform is used directly by the crypto op.
+
+* **Updated the Huawei hinic driver.**
+
+ Updated the Huawei hinic driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Enabled SR-IOV - Partially supported at this point, VFIO only.
+ * Supported VLAN filter and VLAN offload.
+ * Supported Unicast MAC filter and Multicast MAC filter.
+ * Supported Flow API for LACP, VRRP, BGP and so on.
+ * Supported FW version get.
+
+* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
+
+ Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Added support for VLAN pop flow offload command.
+ * Added support for VLAN push flow offload command.
+ * 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.
+ * Added ConnectX6-DX support.
+ * Flow engine selected based on RDMA Core library version.
+ DV flow engine selected if version is rdma-core-24.0 or higher.
+ Verbs flow engine selected otherwise.
+
+* **Updated the AF_XDP PMD.**
+
+ Updated the AF_XDP PMD. The new features include:
+
+ * Enabled zero copy between application mempools and UMEM by enabling the
+ XDP_UMEM_UNALIGNED_CHUNKS UMEM flag.
* **Added Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.**
Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Marvell NITROX V security processor.
See the :doc:`../cryptodevs/nitrox` guide for more details on this new
+* **Added asymmetric support to Marvell OCTEON TX crypto PMD.**
+
+ Added support for asymmetric operations in Marvell OCTEON TX cypto PMD.
+ Supports RSA and modexp operations.
+
+* **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD**
+
+ Added a new PMD driver for h/w crypto offload block on ``OCTEON TX2`` SoC.
+
+ See :doc:`../cryptodevs/octeontx2` for more details
+
* **Updated NXP crypto PMDs for PDCP support.**
PDCP support is added to DPAA_SEC and DPAA2_SEC PMDs using rte_security APIs.
Support is added for all sequence number sizes for control and user plane.
- Test application is updated for unit testing.
+ Test and test-crypto-perf applications are updated for unit testing.
+
+* **Updated the AESNI-MB PMD.**
+
+ * Added support for intel-ipsec-mb version 0.53.
+
+* **Updated the AESNI-GCM PMD.**
+
+ * Added support for intel-ipsec-mb version 0.53.
+ * Supported in-place chained mbufs on AES-GCM algorithm.
* **Enabled Single Pass GCM acceleration on QAT GEN3.**
classic 2-pass mode when running on QAT GEN3, significantly improving
the performance of AES GCM operations.
+* **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) asymmetric crypto PMD.**
+
+ * Added support for asymmetric session-less operations.
+ * Added support for RSA algorithm with pair (n, d) private key representation.
+ * Added support for RSA algorithm with quintuple private key representation.
+
* **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) compression PMD.**
Added stateful decompression support in the Intel QuickAssist Technology PMD.
Please note that stateful compression is not supported.
+* **Added external buffers support for dpdk-test-compress-perf tool.**
+
+ Added a command line option to dpdk-test-compress-perf tool to allocate
+ and use memory zones as external buffers instead of keeping the data directly
+ in mbuf areas.
+
+* **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.
+
+ * 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.**
Introduced FIFO for NTB (Non-transparent Bridge) PMD to support
Added eBPF JIT support for arm64 architecture to improve the eBPF program
performance.
+* **Added RIB and FIB (Routing/Forwarding Information Base) libraries.**
+
+ RIB and FIB can replace the LPM (Longest Prefix Match) library
+ with better control plane (RIB) performance.
+ The data plane (FIB) can be extended with new algorithms.
+
+* **Updated testpmd.**
+
+ * Added a console command to testpmd app, ``show port (port_id) ptypes`` which
+ gives ability to print port supported ptypes in different protocol layers.
+ * Packet type detection disabled by default for the supported PMDs.
+
+* **Added new example l2fwd-event application.**
+
+ Added an example application `l2fwd-event` that adds event device support to
+ 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:
+
+* **Added IOVA as VA support for KNI.**
+
+ * Added IOVA = VA support for KNI, KNI can operate in IOVA = VA mode when
+ `iova-mode=va` EAL option is passed to the application or when bus IOVA
+ scheme is selected as RTE_IOVA_VA. This mode only works on Linux Kernel
+ versions above 4.9.0.
+
+ * Due to IOVA to KVA address translations, based on the KNI use case there
+ can be a performance impact. For mitigation, forcing IOVA to PA via EAL
+ "--iova-mode=pa" option can be used, IOVA_DC bus iommu scheme can also
+ result in IOVA as PA.
+
Removed Items
-------------
ipv4_cksum|udp_cksum|tcp_cksum|timestamp|
vlan_strip|vlan_filter|vlan_extend on|off
+* Removed AF_XDP pmd_zero copy vdev argument. Support is now auto-detected.
+
+* The following sample applications have been removed in this release:
+
+ * Exception Path
+ * L3 Forwarding in a Virtualization Environment
+ * Load Balancer
+ * Netmap Compatibility
+ * Quota and Watermark
+ * vhost-scsi
+
+* Removed arm64-dpaa2-* build config. arm64-dpaa-* can now build for both
+ dpaa and dpaa2 platforms.
+
API Changes
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+* eal: made the ``lcore_config`` struct and global symbol private.
+
+* eal: removed the ``rte_cpu_check_supported`` function, replaced by
+ ``rte_cpu_is_supported`` since dpdk v17.08.
+
+* eal: removed the ``rte_malloc_virt2phy`` function, replaced by
+ ``rte_malloc_virt2iova`` since v17.11.
+
+* eal: made the ``rte_config`` struct and ``rte_eal_get_configuration``
+ function private.
+
+* mem: hid the internal ``malloc_heap`` structure and the
+ ``rte_malloc_heap.h`` header.
+
+* vfio: removed ``rte_vfio_dma_map`` and ``rte_vfio_dma_unmap`` that have
+ been marked as deprecated in release 19.05.
+ ``rte_vfio_container_dma_map`` and ``rte_vfio_container_dma_unmap`` can
+ be used as substitutes.
+
+* pci: removed the following functions deprecated since dpdk v17.11:
+
+ - ``eal_parse_pci_BDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
+ - ``eal_parse_pci_DomBDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
+ - ``rte_eal_compare_pci_addr`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_cmp``
+
+* The network structure ``esp_tail`` has been prefixed by ``rte_``.
+
+* The network definitions of PPPoE ethertypes have been prefixed by ``RTE_``.
+
+* The network structure for MPLS has been prefixed by ``rte_``.
+
* ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_infos_get`` return value from ``void`` to
``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
* 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
enqueued in the tx adapter are destined for the same Ethernet port & Tx queue.
+* sched: The pipe nodes configuration parameters such as number of pipes,
+ pipe queue sizes, pipe profiles, etc., are moved from port level structure
+ to subport level. This allows different subports of the same port to
+ have different configuration for the pipe nodes.
+
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+* net: The Ethernet address and other header definitions have changed
+ attributes. They have been modified to be aligned on 2-byte boundaries.
+ These changes should not impact normal usage because drivers naturally
+ 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.
+
+* ethdev: Added 32-bit fields for maximum LRO aggregated packet size, in
+ struct ``rte_eth_dev_info`` for the port capability and in struct
+ ``rte_eth_rxmode`` for the port configuration.
+ Application should use the new field in struct ``rte_eth_rxmode`` to configure
+ the requested size.
+ PMD should use the new field in struct ``rte_eth_dev_info`` to report the
+ supported port capability.
+
Shared Library Versions
-----------------------
librte_compressdev.so.1
librte_cryptodev.so.8
librte_distributor.so.1
- librte_eal.so.11
+ + librte_eal.so.12
librte_efd.so.1
+ librte_ethdev.so.13
+ librte_eventdev.so.8
+ + librte_fib.so.1
librte_flow_classify.so.1
librte_gro.so.1
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
librte_meter.so.3
librte_metrics.so.1
librte_net.so.1
- librte_pci.so.1
+ + librte_pci.so.2
librte_pdump.so.3
librte_pipeline.so.3
librte_pmd_bnxt.so.2
librte_port.so.3
librte_power.so.1
librte_rawdev.so.1
+ + librte_rib.so.1
librte_rcu.so.1
librte_reorder.so.1
librte_ring.so.2
- librte_sched.so.3
- librte_security.so.2
+ + librte_sched.so.4
+ + librte_security.so.3
librte_stack.so.1
librte_table.so.3
librte_timer.so.1
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-* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
-
- Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
-
- * Added support for VLAN pop flow offload command.
- * Added support for VLAN push flow offload command.
- * Added support for VLAN set PCP offload command.
- * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command.
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