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23 .. This section should contain new features added in this release. Sample
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35 * Added feature foo to do something.
36 * Enhanced feature bar to do something else.
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42 =========================================================
44 * **Extended port_id range from uint8_t to uint16_t.**
46 Increased port_id range from 8 bits to 16 bits in order to support more than
47 256 ports in dpdk. All ethdev APIs which have port_id as parameter are changed
50 * **Modified the return type of rte_eth_stats_reset.**
52 Changed return type of ``rte_eth_stats_reset`` from ``void`` to ``int``
53 so the caller may know whether a device supports the operation or not
54 and if the operation was carried out.
56 * **Added a new driver for Marvell Armada 7k/8k devices.**
58 Added the new mrvl net driver for Marvell Armada 7k/8k devices. See the
59 "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this new
62 * **Added SoftNIC PMD.**
64 Added new SoftNIC PMD. This virtual device offers applications a software
65 fallback support for traffic management.
67 * **nfp: Added PF support.**
69 Previously Netronome's NFP PMD had just support for VFs. PF support is
70 just as a basic DPDK port and has no VF management yet.
72 PF support comes with firmware upload support which allows the PMD to
73 independently work from kernel netdev NFP drivers.
75 NFP 4000 devices are also now supported along with previous 6000 devices.
77 * **Updated bnxt PMD.**
79 Major enhancements include:
81 * Support for Flow API
82 * Support for Tx and Rx descriptor status functions
84 * **Updated QAT crypto PMD.**
86 Performance enhancements:
88 * Removed atomics from the internal queue pair structure.
89 * Coalesce writes to HEAD CSR on response processing.
90 * Coalesce writes to TAIL CSR on request processing.
92 * **Added IOMMU support to libvhost-user**
94 Implemented device IOTLB in Vhost-user backend, and enabled Virtio's IOMMU
97 * **Added Membership library (rte_member).**
99 Added membership library. It provides an API for DPDK applications to insert a
100 new member, delete an existing member, or query the existence of a member in a
101 given set, or a group of sets. For the case of a group of sets the library
102 will return not only whether the element has been inserted before in one of
103 the sets but also which set it belongs to.
105 The Membership Library is an extension and generalization of a traditional
106 filter (for example Bloom Filter) structure that has multiple usages in a wide
107 variety of workloads and applications. In general, the Membership Library is a
108 data structure that provides a “set-summary” and responds to set-membership
109 queries whether a certain member belongs to a set(s).
111 See the :ref:`Membership Library <Member_Library>` documentation in
112 the Programmers Guide document, for more information.
114 * **Added the Generic Segmentation Offload Library.**
116 Added the Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO) library to enable
117 applications to split large packets (e.g. MTU is 64KB) into small
118 ones (e.g. MTU is 1500B). Supported packet types are:
121 * VxLAN packets, which must have an outer IPv4 header, and contain
122 an inner TCP/IPv4 packet.
123 * GRE packets, which must contain an outer IPv4 header, and inner
126 The GSO library doesn't check if the input packets have correct
127 checksums, and doesn't update checksums for output packets.
128 Additionally, the GSO library doesn't process IP fragmented packets.
134 .. This section should contain bug fixes added to the relevant
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148 =========================================================
154 * **Service core fails to call service callback due to atomic lock**
156 In a specific configuration of multi-thread unsafe services and service
157 cores, a service core previously did not correctly release the atomic lock
158 on the service. This would result in the cores polling the service, but it
159 looked like another thread was executing the service callback. The logic for
160 atomic locking of the services has been fixed and refactored for readability.
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190 =========================================================
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204 =========================================================
206 * **Ethdev device name length increased**
208 The size of internal device name is increased to 64 characters
209 to allow for storing longer bus specific name.
211 * **Service cores API updated for usability**
213 The service cores API has been changed, removing pointers from the API
214 where possible, instead using integer IDs to identify each service. This
215 simplifed application code, aids debugging, and provides better
216 encapsulation. A summary of the main changes made is as follows:
218 * Services identified by ID not by ``rte_service_spec`` pointer
219 * Reduced API surface by using ``set`` functions instead of enable/disable
220 * Reworked ``rte_service_register`` to provide the service ID to registrar
221 * Rework start and stop APIs into ``rte_service_runstate_set``
222 * Added API to set runstate of service implementation to indicate readyness
224 * **The following changes made in mempool library**
226 * Moved ``flags`` datatype from int to unsigned int for ``rte_mempool``.
227 * Removed ``__rte_unused int flag`` param from ``rte_mempool_generic_put``
228 and ``rte_mempool_generic_get`` API.
229 * Added ``flags`` param in ``rte_mempool_xmem_size`` and
230 ``rte_mempool_xmem_usage``.
232 * Xen dom0 in EAL was removed, as well as xenvirt PMD and vhost_xen.
234 * ``rte_mem_phy2mch`` was used in Xen dom0 to obtain the physical address;
235 remove this API as Xen dom0 support was removed.
237 * **Add return value to stats_get dev op API**
239 The ``stats_get`` dev op API return value has been changed to be int.
240 By this way PMDs can return an error value in case of failure at stats
241 getting process time.
243 * **Modified the rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver function in the cryptodev library.**
245 The function ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver()`` has been modified.
246 An extra parameter ``struct cryptodev_driver *crypto_drv`` has been added.
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255 in the previous releases and made in this release. Use fixed width quotes
256 for ``rte_function_names`` or ``rte_struct_names``. Use the past tense.
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260 =========================================================
262 * **Extended port_id range.**
264 The size of the field ``port_id`` in the ``rte_eth_dev_data`` structure
265 changed, as described in the `New Features` section.
267 Shared Library Versions
268 -----------------------
270 .. Update any library version updated in this release and prepend with a ``+``
274 + librte_cfgfile.so.2
277 This section is a comment. do not overwrite or remove it.
278 =========================================================
281 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
286 librte_bitratestats.so.2
289 librte_cryptodev.so.3
290 librte_distributor.so.1
301 librte_latencystats.so.1
313 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
315 + librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
316 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
330 .. This section should contain a list of platforms that were tested with this
335 * <vendor> platform with <vendor> <type of devices> combinations
340 * Other relevant details...
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344 =========================================================