mempool: return 0 if area is too small on populate

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_20_05.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst
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--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst
@@ -82,6 +82,17 @@ New Features
   (enqueue/dequeue start; enqueue/dequeue finish). That allows user to inspect
   objects in the ring without removing them from it (aka MT safe peek).
 
+* **Added flow aging support.**
+
+  Added flow aging support to detect and report aged-out flows, including:
+
+  * Added new action: ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_AGE`` to set the timeout
+    and the application flow context for each flow.
+  * Added new event: ``RTE_ETH_EVENT_FLOW_AGED`` for the driver to report
+    that there are new aged-out flows.
+  * Added new query: ``rte_flow_get_aged_flows`` to get the aged-out flows
+    contexts from the port.
+
 * **Updated Amazon ena driver.**
 
   Updated ena PMD with new features and improvements, including:
@@ -104,6 +115,8 @@ New Features
   Update the Intel iavf driver with new features and improvements, including:
 
   * Added generic filter support.
+  * Added advanced iavf with FDIR capability.
+  * Added advanced RSS configuration for VFs.
 
 * **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
 
@@ -127,6 +140,7 @@ New Features
   * Added support for matching on IPv4 Time To Live and IPv6 Hop Limit.
   * Added support for creating Relaxed Ordering Memory Regions.
   * Added support for jumbo frame size (9K MTU) in Multi-Packet RQ mode.
+  * Optimized the memory consumption of flow.
 
 * **Updated the AESNI MB crypto PMD.**
 
@@ -148,6 +162,8 @@ New Features
   Updated Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including:
 
   * Added support for host based flow table management
+  * Added flow counters to extended stats
+  * Added PCI function stats to extended stats
 
 * **Added handling of mixed crypto algorithms in QAT PMD for GEN2.**
 
@@ -225,6 +241,10 @@ API Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
+* mempool: The API of ``rte_mempool_populate_iova()`` and
+  ``rte_mempool_populate_virt()`` changed to return 0 instead of -EINVAL
+  when there is not enough room to store one object.
+
 
 ABI Changes
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