doc: add release notes for mlx5
authorYongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 07:53:21 +0000 (23:53 -0800)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:41:07 +0000 (18:41 +0100)
Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst

index 3372c4d..027d772 100644 (file)
@@ -93,6 +93,22 @@ New Features
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   * Updated documentation and features list of the PMD.
 
+* **Updated mlx5 driver.**
+
+  Updated the mlx5 driver including the following changes:
+
+  * Fixed ``imissed`` counter to be reported through ``rte_eth_stats`` instead
+    of ``rte_eth_xstats``.
+  * Added packet header modification through Direct Verbs flow driver.
+  * Added ConnectX-6 PCI device ID to be proved by ``mlx5`` driver.
+  * Added flow counter support to Direct Verbs flow driver though DevX.
+  * Renamed build options for the glue layer to
+    ``CONFIG_RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_DLOPEN`` for make and ``ibverbs_link`` for meson.
+  * Added static linkage of ``mlx`` dependency.
+  * Improved stability of E-Switch flow driver.
+  * Added new make build configuration to set the cacheline size for Bluefield
+    correctly - ``arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc``.
+
 * **Updated the enic driver.**
 
   * Added support for ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.