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17 firefox build/doc/html/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.html
23 This section should contain new features added in this release. Sample format:
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27 Add a short 1-2 sentence description in the past tense. The description
28 should be enough to allow someone scanning the release notes to understand
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33 * Added feature foo to do something.
34 * Enhanced feature bar to do something else.
36 Refer to the previous release notes for examples.
38 * **Added function to check primary process state.**
40 A new function ``rte_eal_primary_proc_alive()`` has been added
41 to allow the user to detect if a primary process is running.
42 Use cases for this feature include fault detection, and monitoring
43 using secondary processes.
45 * **Enabled bulk allocation of mbufs.**
47 A new function ``rte_pktmbuf_alloc_bulk()`` has been added to allow the user
48 to allocate a bulk of mbufs.
52 Enabled virtio 1.0 support for virtio pmd driver.
54 * **Supported virtio for ARM.**
56 Enabled virtio support for armv7/v8. Tested for arm64.
57 Virtio for arm support VFIO-noiommu mode only.
58 Virtio can work with other non-x86 arch too like powerpc.
60 * **Supported virtio offload in vhost-user.**
62 Add the offload and negotiation of checksum and TSO between vhost-user and
63 vanilla Linux virtio guest.
65 * **Added vhost-user live migration support.**
67 * **Added support for E-tag on X550.**
69 E-tag is defined in 802.1br. Please reference
70 http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/802.1br.html.
72 This feature is for VF, but the settings are on PF. It means
73 the CLIs should be used on PF, but some of their effects will be shown on VF.
74 The forwarding of E-tag packets based on GRP and E-CID_base will have effect
75 on PF. Theoretically the E-tag packets can be forwarded to any pool/queue.
76 But normally we'd like to forward the packets to the pools/queues belonging
77 to the VFs. And E-tag insertion and stripping will have effect on VFs. When
78 VF receives E-tag packets, it should strip the E-tag. When VF transmits
79 packets, it should insert the E-tag. Both can be offloaded.
81 When we want to use this E-tag support feature, the forwarding should be
82 enabled to forward the packets received by PF to indicated VFs. And insertion
83 and stripping should be enabled for VFs to offload the effort to HW.
85 * Support E-tag offloading of insertion and stripping.
86 * Support Forwarding E-tag packets to pools based on
89 * **Enabled PCI extended tag for i40e.**
91 It enabled extended tag by checking and writing corresponding PCI config
92 space bytes, to boost the performance. In the meanwhile, it deprecated the
93 legacy way via reading/writing sysfile supported by kernel module igb_uio.
95 * **Supported ether type setting of single and double VLAN for i40e**
97 * **Increased number of next hops for LPM IPv4 to 2^24.**
99 The next_hop field is extended from 8 bits to 24 bits for IPv4.
101 * **Added support of SNOW 3G (UEA2 and UIA2) for Intel Quick Assist devices.**
103 Enabled support for SNOW 3G wireless algorithm for Intel Quick Assist devices.
104 Support for cipher only, hash only is also provided
105 along with alg-chaining operations.
107 * **Added SNOW3G SW PMD.**
109 A new Crypto PMD has been added, which provides SNOW 3G UEA2 ciphering
110 and SNOW3G UIA2 hashing.
112 * **Added AES GCM PMD.**
114 Added new Crypto PMD to support AES-GCM authenticated encryption and
115 authenticated decryption in SW.
117 * **Added NULL Crypto PMD**
119 Added new Crypto PMD to support null crypto operations in SW.
124 This section should contain bug fixes added to the relevant sections. Sample format:
126 * **code/section: Fixed issue in the past tense with a full stop.**
128 Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the resolved issue in the past tense.
129 The title should contain the code/lib section like a commit message.
130 Add the entries in alphabetic order in the relevant sections below.
140 * **ethdev: Fixed byte order consistency between fdir flow and mask.**
142 Fixed issue in ethdev library that the structure for setting
143 fdir's mask and flow entry was not consistent in byte ordering.
145 * **aesni_mb: Fixed wrong return value when creating a device.**
147 cryptodev_aesni_mb_init() was returning the device id of the device created,
148 instead of 0 (when success), that rte_eal_vdev_init() expects.
149 This made impossible the creation of more than one aesni_mb device
152 * **qat: Fixed AES GCM decryption.**
154 Allowed AES GCM on the cryptodev API, but in some cases gave invalid results
155 due to incorrect IV setting.
161 * **hash: Fixed CRC32c hash computation for non multiple of 4 bytes sizes.**
163 Fix crc32c hash functions to return a valid crc32c value for data lengths
164 not multiple of 4 bytes.
170 * **examples/vhost: Fixed frequent mbuf allocation failure.**
172 vhost-switch often fails to allocate mbuf when dequeue from vring because it
173 wrongly calculates the number of mbufs needed.
175 * **examples/ipsec-secgw: ipsec security gateway**
177 New application implementing an IPsec Security Gateway.
186 This section should contain new known issues in this release. Sample format:
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190 Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the known issue in the present
191 tense. Add information on any known workarounds.
197 This section should contain API changes. Sample format:
199 * Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the API change. Use fixed width
200 quotes for ``rte_function_names`` or ``rte_struct_names``. Use the past tense.
202 * The functions ``rte_eth_dev_udp_tunnel_add`` and ``rte_eth_dev_udp_tunnel_delete``
203 have been renamed into ``rte_eth_dev_udp_tunnel_port_add`` and
204 ``rte_eth_dev_udp_tunnel_port_delete``.
206 * The fields in ethdev structure ``rte_eth_fdir_masks`` were changed
209 * A parameter ``vlan_type`` has been added to the function
210 ``rte_eth_dev_set_vlan_ether_type``.
212 * The LPM ``next_hop`` field is extended from 8 bits to 24 bits for IPv4
213 while keeping ABI compatibility.
215 * A new ``rte_lpm_config`` structure is used so LPM library will allocate
216 exactly the amount of memory which is necessary to hold application’s rules.
217 The previous ABI is kept for compatibility.
219 * The prototype for the pipeline input port, output port and table action
220 handlers are updated: the pipeline parameter is added,
221 the packets mask parameter has been either removed or made input-only.
227 * Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the ABI change that was announced in
228 the previous releases and made in this release. Use fixed width quotes for
229 ``rte_function_names`` or ``rte_struct_names``. Use the past tense.
231 * The RETA entry size in ``rte_eth_rss_reta_entry64`` has been increased
232 from 8-bit to 16-bit.
234 * The cmdline buffer size has been increase from 256 to 512.
237 Shared Library Versions
238 -----------------------
240 Update any library version updated in this release and prepend with a ``+`` sign.
242 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
249 + librte_cmdline.so.2
250 librte_distributor.so.1
262 + librte_pipeline.so.3