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+* **Added non-EAL threads registration API.**
+
+ Added a new API to register non-EAL threads as lcores. This can be used by
+ applications to have its threads known of DPDK without suffering from the
+ non-EAL previous limitations in terms of performance.
+
+* **rte_*mb APIs are updated to use DMB instruction for ARMv8.**
+
+ ARMv8 memory model has been strengthened to require other-multi-copy
+ atomicity. This allows for using DMB instruction instead of DSB for IO
+ 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,
+ it uses a shared VF token (UUID) to represent the collaboration between PF
+ and VFs. Update DPDK PCI driver to gain the access to the PF and VFs devices
+ by appending the VF token parameter.
+
+* **Added the RegEx Library, a generic RegEx service library.**
+
+ 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 vhost async data path APIs.**
+
+ 4 new APIs have been added to enable vhost async data path, including:
+
+ * Async device channel register/unregister APIs
+ * Async packets enqueue/completion APIs (only split ring was implemented)
+
+* **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:
* Support software Tx nanosecond timestamps precision.
-* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
+* **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.**
+
+ Updated the Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Added support for VF representors.
+ * Added support for multiple devices.
+ * 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.
+ * Added TruFlow hash API for common hash uses across TruFlow core functions.
+
+* **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 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.**
+
+ A new 3 APIs has been added to query virtio queue statistics, to get their
+ names and to reset them by a vDPA device.
+
+* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver.**
+
+ Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver with new features, including:
+
+ * Added support for virtio queue statistics.
+ * Added support for MTU update.
+
+* **Updated Marvell octeontx2 ethdev PMD.**
+
+ Updated Marvell octeontx2 driver with cn98xx support.
+
+* **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
+
+ Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Added support for DCF datapath configuration.
+ * Added support for more PPPoE packet type for switch filter.
+
+* **Updated Intel i40e driver.**
+
+ Updated i40e PMD with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * 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.**
+
+ Updated the Intel ixgbe driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * 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
+ to ``rte_security`` API.
+
+* **Updated the AESNI MB crypto PMD.**
+
+ Added support for lookaside protocol offload for DOCSIS through the
+ ``rte_security`` API.
+
+* **Updated the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) PMD.**
+
+ * 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.
+
+ * Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD to support ``rte_security`` lookaside
+ protocol offload for IPsec.
* **Added support for BPF_ABS/BPF_IND load instructions.**
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:
+
+ * Measure ``rte_flow`` insertion rate.
+ * Measure ``rte_flow`` deletion rate.
+ * Dump ``rte_flow`` memory consumption.
+ * Measure packet per second forwarding.
+
+* **Added --portmap command line parameter to l2fwd example.**
+
+ Added new command line option ``--portmap="(port, port)[,(port, port)]"`` to
+ pass forwarding port details.
+ 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.
+
Removed Items
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+* Removed ``RTE_KDRV_NONE`` based PCI device driver probing.
+
API Changes
-----------
* ``rte_page_sizes`` enumeration is replaced with ``RTE_PGSIZE_xxx`` defines.
+* vhost: The API of ``rte_vhost_host_notifier_ctrl`` was changed to be per
+ queue and not per device, a qid parameter was added to the arguments list.
+
ABI Changes
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+
+* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Mellanox\ |reg| NICs combinations
+
+ * CPU:
+
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2697A v4 @ 2.60GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2640 @ 2.50GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz
+
+ * OS:
+
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.2 (Ootpa)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.8 (Maipo)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)
+ * Ubuntu 20.04
+ * Ubuntu 18.04
+ * Ubuntu 16.04
+ * SUSE Enterprise Linux 15 SP2
+ * SUSE Enterprise Linux 12 SP4
+
+ * OFED:
+
+ * MLNX_OFED 5.0-2.1.8.0
+ * MLNX_OFED 5.1-0.6.6.0 and above
+
+ * upstream kernel:
+
+ * Linux 5.8.0-rc6 and above
+
+ * rdma-core:
+
+ * rdma-core-30.0-1 and above
+
+ * NICs:
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-3 Pro 40G MCX354A-FCC_Ax (2x40G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1007
+ * Firmware version: 2.42.5000
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-3 Pro 40G MCX354A-FCCT (2x40G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1007
+ * Firmware version: 2.42.5000
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-4 Lx 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1015
+ * Firmware version: 14.28.1002 and above
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-4 Lx 50G MCX4131A-GCAT (1x50G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1015
+ * Firmware version: 14.28.1002 and above
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-5 100G MCX516A-CCAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1017
+ * Firmware version: 16.28.1002 and above
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-5 100G MCX556A-ECAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1017
+ * Firmware version: 16.28.1002 and above
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-5 100G MCX556A-EDAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1017
+ * Firmware version: 16.28.1002 and above
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-5 Ex EN 100G MCX516A-CDAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1019
+ * Firmware version: 16.28.1002 and above
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-6 Dx EN 100G MCX623106AN-CDAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:101d
+ * Firmware version: 22.28.1002 and above
+
+* Mellanox\ |reg| BlueField\ |reg| SmartNIC
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| BlueField\ |reg| 2 SmartNIC MT41686 - MBF2H332A-AEEOT (2x25G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:a2d2
+ * Firmware version: 24.28.1002
+
+ * Embedded software:
+
+ * CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (AltArch)
+ * MLNX_OFED 5.1-0.6.2
+ * DPDK application running on Arm cores
+
+* IBM Power 9 platforms with Mellanox\ |reg| NICs combinations
+
+ * CPU:
+
+ * POWER9 2.2 (pvr 004e 1202) 2300MHz
+
+ * OS:
+
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6
+
+ * NICs:
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-5 100G MCX556A-ECAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1017
+ * Firmware version: 16.28.1002
+
+ * Mellanox\ |reg| ConnectX\ |reg|-6 Dx 100G MCX623106AN-CDAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:101d
+ * Firmware version: 22.28.1002
+
+ * OFED:
+
+ * MLNX_OFED 5.1-0.6.6.0
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