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39 * **Added vhost-user indirect descriptors support.**
41 If indirect descriptor feature is negotiated, each packet sent by the guest
42 will take exactly one slot in the enqueue virtqueue. Without the feature, in
43 current version, even 64 bytes packets take two slots with Virtio PMD on guest
46 The main impact is better performance for 0% packet loss use-cases, as it
47 behaves as if the virtqueue size was enlarged, so more packets can be buffered
48 in case of system perturbations. On the downside, small performance degradation
49 is measured when running micro-benchmarks.
51 * **Added vhost PMD xstats.**
53 Added extended statistics to vhost PMD from per port perspective.
55 * **Added virtio NEON support for ARM.**
57 * **Updated the ixgbe base driver.**
59 Updated the ixgbe base driver, including the following changes:
61 * add X550em_a 10G PHY support
62 * support flow control auto negotiation for X550em_a 1G PHY
63 * add X550em_a FW ALEF support
64 * increase mailbox version to ixgbe_mbox_api_13
65 * add two MAC ops for Hyper-V support
67 * **Updated the QAT PMD.**
69 The QAT PMD was updated with following support:
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132 Examples: ``eth_pcap`` becomes ``net_pcap``
133 and ``cryptodev_aesni_mb_pmd`` becomes ``crypto_aesni_mb``.
135 * The log history is removed.
137 * The ``rte_ivshmem`` feature (including library and EAL code) has been removed
138 in 16.11 because it had some design issues which were not planned to be fixed.
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154 Shared Library Versions
155 -----------------------
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162 + librte_cfgfile.so.2
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175 librte_cryptodev.so.1
176 librte_distributor.so.1
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241 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
242 * SUSE Enterprise Linux 12
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