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44 * **Added Flow API support for CXGBE PMD.**
46 Flow API support has been added to CXGBE Poll Mode Driver to offload
47 flows to Chelsio T5/T6 NICs.
49 * **Added ixgbe preferred Rx/Tx parameters.**
51 Rather than applications providing explicit Rx and Tx parameters such as
52 queue and burst sizes, they can request that the EAL instead uses preferred
53 values provided by the PMD, falling back to defaults within the EAL if the
54 PMD does not provide any. The provision of such tuned values now includes
57 * **Added descriptor status check support for fm10k.**
59 ``rte_eth_rx_descritpr_status`` and ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status``
60 are supported by fm10K.
62 * **Updated the enic driver.**
64 * Add support for mbuf fast free offload.
65 * Add low cycle count Tx handler for no-offload Tx (except mbuf fast free).
66 * Add low cycle count Rx handler for non-scattered Rx.
67 * Minor performance improvements to scattered Rx handler.
68 * Add handlers to add/delete VxLAN port number.
69 * Add devarg to specify ingress VLAN rewrite mode.
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85 * cryptodev: In struct ``struct rte_cryptodev_info``, field ``rte_pci_device *pci_dev``
86 has been replaced with field ``struct rte_device *device``.
87 Value 0 is accepted in ``sym.max_nb_sessions``, meaning that a device
88 supports an unlimited number of sessions.
90 * compressdev: Feature flag ``RTE_COMP_FF_MBUF_SCATTER_GATHER`` is
91 replaced with the following more explicit flags:
92 - ``RTE_COMP_FF_OOP_SGL_IN_SGL_OUT``
93 - ``RTE_COMP_FF_OOP_SGL_IN_LB_OUT``
94 - ``RTE_COMP_FF_OOP_LB_IN_SGL_OUT``
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144 librte_bitratestats.so.2
147 librte_bus_fslmc.so.1
152 librte_common_octeontx.so.1
153 librte_compressdev.so.1
154 + librte_cryptodev.so.5
155 librte_distributor.so.1
159 librte_flow_classify.so.1
167 librte_latencystats.so.1
180 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
181 librte_pmd_dpaa2_cmdif.so.1
182 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
184 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
185 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
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