doc: update release notes for hns3 driver

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_20_08.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
index 17c3af4..29abd6c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
@@ -69,6 +69,12 @@ New Features
   barriers. rte_*mb APIs, for ARMv8 platforms, are changed to use DMB
   instruction to reflect this.
 
+* **Added support for RTS and HTS modes into mempool ring driver.**
+
+  Added ability to select new ring synchronisation modes:
+  ``relaxed tail sync (ring_mt_rts)`` and ``head/tail sync (ring_mt_hts)``
+  via mempool ops API.
+
 * **Added the support for vfio-pci new VF token interface.**
 
   From Linux 5.7, vfio-pci supports to bind both SR-IOV PF and the created VFs,
@@ -81,6 +87,19 @@ New Features
   Added the RegEx library which provides an API for offload of regular
   expressions search operations to hardware or software accelerator devices.
 
+  Added Mellanox RegEx PMD, allowing to offload RegEx searches.
+
+* **Added eCPRI protocol support in rte_flow.**
+
+  The ``ECPRI`` item has been added to support eCPRI packet offloading for
+  5G network.
+
+* **Introduced send packet scheduling on the timestamps.**
+
+   Added the new mbuf dynamic field and flag to provide timestamp on what packet
+   transmitting can be synchronized. The device Tx offload flag is added to
+   indicate the PMD supports send scheduling.
+
 * **Updated PCAP driver.**
 
   Updated PCAP driver with new features and improvements, including:
@@ -96,13 +115,31 @@ New Features
   * Added support for new resource manager API.
   * Added support for VXLAN encap/decap.
   * Added support for rte_flow_query for COUNT action.
+  * Added support for rx_burst_mode_get and tx_burst_mode_get.
+  * Added vector mode support for ARM CPUs.
+  * Added support for VLAN push and pop actions.
+  * Added support for NAT action items.
+
+* **Updated Cisco enic driver.**
+
+  * Added support for VLAN push and pop flow actions.
+
+* **Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver.**
+
+  * Added support for 200G speed rate.
+  * Added support for copper media type.
+  * Added support for keeping CRC.
+  * Added support for LRO.
+  * Added support for setting VF PVID by PF driver.
 
-* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
+* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 net driver and common layer.**
 
   Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
 
+  * Added mlx5 PCI layer to share a PCI device among multiple PMDs.
   * Added new PMD devarg ``reclaim_mem_mode``.
   * Added new devarg ``lacp_by_user``.
+  * Added support for eCPRI protocol offloading.
 
 * **Added vDPA device APIs to query virtio queue statistics.**
 
@@ -134,6 +171,7 @@ New Features
   * Supported cloud filter for IPv4/6_TCP/UDP/SCTP with SRC port only or DST port only.
   * Re-implemented get_fdir_info and get_fdir_stat in private API.
   * Re-implemented set_gre_key_len in private API.
+  * Added support for flow query RSS.
 
 * **Updated the Intel ixgbe driver.**
 
@@ -141,6 +179,20 @@ New Features
 
   * Re-implemented get_fdir_info and get_fdir_stat in private API.
 
+* **Updated NXP dpaa ethdev PMD.**
+
+  Updated the NXP dpaa ethdev with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Added support for link status and interrupt
+  * Added support to use datapath APIs from non-EAL pthread
+
+* **Updated NXP dpaa2 ethdev PMD.**
+
+  Updated the NXP dpaa2 ethdev with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Added support to use datapath APIs from non-EAL pthread
+  * Added support for dynamic flow management
+
 * **Added DOCSIS protocol to rte_security.**
 
   Added support for combined crypto and CRC operations for the DOCSIS protocol
@@ -153,14 +205,19 @@ New Features
 
 * **Updated the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) PMD.**
 
-  * Added support for lookaside protocol offload for DOCSIS through the
-    ``rte_security`` API.
-  * Added Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm.
+  * Added support for lookaside protocol offload in QAT crypto PMD
+    for DOCSIS through the ``rte_security`` API.
+  * Added Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm in QAT crypto PMD.
   * Improved handling of multi process in QAT crypto and compression PMDs.
+  * Added support for Intel GEN2 QuickAssist device 200xx
+    (PF Did 0x18ee, VF Did 0x18ef).
 
 * **Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.**
 
-  Added Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm support in OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.
+  * Added Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm support in OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.
+
+  * Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD to support ``rte_security`` lookaside
+    protocol offload for IPsec.
 
 * **Added support for BPF_ABS/BPF_IND load instructions.**
 
@@ -169,6 +226,12 @@ New Features
   which are used to access packet data in a safe manner. Currently JIT support
   for these instructions is implemented for x86 only.
 
+* **Added new testpmd forward mode.**
+
+  Added new ``5tswap`` forward mode to testpmd.
+  the  ``5tswap`` swaps source and destination in layers 2,3,4
+  for ipv4 and ipv6 in L3 and UDP and TCP in L4.
+
 * **Added flow performance test application.**
 
   Added new application to test ``rte_flow`` performance, including:
@@ -185,6 +248,12 @@ New Features
   See the :doc:`../sample_app_ug/l2_forward_real_virtual` for more
   details of this parameter usage.
 
+* **Updated ipsec-secgw sample application.**
+
+  Added ``rte_flow`` based rules, which allows hardware parsing and steering
+  of ingress packets to specific NIC queues.
+  See the :doc:`../sample_app_ug/ipsec_secgw` for more details.
+
 
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