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26 .. This section should contain new features added in this release.
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38 * Added feature foo to do something.
39 * Enhanced feature bar to do something else.
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44 * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
45 * Device abstraction libs and PMDs
47 - cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
48 - eventdev (lib, PMDs)
51 * Apps, Examples, Tools (if significative)
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57 * **Added support for using externally allocated memory in DPDK.**
59 DPDK has gained support for creating new ``rte_malloc`` heaps referencing
60 memory that was created outside of DPDK's own page allocator, and using that
61 memory natively with any other DPDK library or data structure.
63 * **Add support to offload more flow match and actions for CXGBE PMD**
65 Flow API support has been enhanced for CXGBE Poll Mode Driver to offload:
67 * Match items: destination MAC address.
68 * Action items: push/pop/rewrite vlan header.
70 * **Added a devarg to use the latest supported vector path in i40e.**
71 A new devarg ``use-latest-supported-vec`` was introduced to allow users to
72 choose the latest vector path that the platform supported. For example, users
73 can use AVX2 vector path on BDW/HSW to get better performance.
75 * **Added support for SR-IOV in netvsc PMD.**
77 The ``netvsc`` poll mode driver now supports the Accelerated Networking
78 SR-IOV option in Hyper-V and Azure. This is an alternative to the previous
79 vdev_netvsc, tap, and failsafe drivers combination.
81 * **Updated failsafe driver.**
83 Updated the failsafe driver including the following changes:
85 * Support for Rx and Tx queues start and stop.
86 * Support for Rx and Tx queues deferred start.
87 * Support for runtime Rx and Tx queues setup.
88 * Support multicast MAC address set.
90 * **Added Event Ethernet Tx Adapter.**
92 Added event ethernet Tx adapter library that provides configuration and
93 data path APIs for the ethernet transmit stage of an event driven packet
94 processing application. These APIs abstract the implementation of the
95 transmit stage and allow the application to use eventdev PMD support or
96 a common implementation.
98 * **Added Distributed Software Eventdev PMD.**
100 Added the new Distributed Software Event Device (DSW), which is a
101 pure-software eventdev driver distributing the work of scheduling
102 among all eventdev ports and the lcores using them. DSW, compared to
103 the SW eventdev PMD, sacrifices load balancing performance to
104 gain better event scheduling throughput and scalability.
106 * **Added ability to switch queue deferred start flag on testpmd app.**
108 Added a console command to testpmd app, giving ability to switch
109 ``rx_deferred_start`` or ``tx_deferred_start`` flag of the specified queue of
110 the specified port. The port must be stopped before the command call in order
111 to reconfigure queues.
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127 * eal: ``rte_memseg_list`` structure now has an additional flag indicating
128 whether the memseg list is externally allocated. This will have implications
129 for any users of memseg-walk-related functions, as they will now have to skip
130 externally allocated segments in most cases if the intent is to only iterate
131 over internal DPDK memory.
132 ``socket_id`` parameter across the entire DPDK has gained additional meaning,
133 as some socket ID's will now be representing externally allocated memory. No
134 changes will be required for existing code as backwards compatibility will be
135 kept, and those who do not use this feature will not see these extra socket
136 ID's. Any new API's must not check socket ID parameters themselves, and must
137 instead leave it to the memory subsystem to decide whether socket ID is a
140 * eal: The following devargs functions, which were deprecated in 18.05,
141 were removed in 18.11:
142 ``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str()``, ``rte_eal_devargs_add()``,
143 ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count()``, and ``rte_eal_devargs_dump()``.
145 * mbuf: The ``__rte_mbuf_raw_free()`` and ``__rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg()``
146 functions were deprecated since 17.05 and are replaced by
147 ``rte_mbuf_raw_free()`` and ``rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg()``.
149 * A new device flag, RTE_ETH_DEV_NOLIVE_MAC_ADDR, changes the order of
150 actions inside rte_eth_dev_start regarding MAC set. Some NICs do not
151 support MAC changes once the port has started and with this new device
152 flag the MAC can be properly configured in any case. This is particularly
153 important for bonding.
155 * The default behaviour of CRC strip offload changed. Without any specific Rx
156 offload flag, default behavior by PMD is now to strip CRC.
157 DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP offload flag has been removed.
158 To request keeping CRC, application should set ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEEP_CRC`` Rx
161 * eventdev: Type of 2nd parameter to ``rte_event_eth_rx_adapter_caps_get()``
162 has been changed from uint8_t to uint16_t.
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171 that was announced in the previous releases and made in this release.
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179 * eal: added ``legacy_mem`` and ``single_file_segments`` values to
180 ``rte_config`` structure on account of improving DPDK usability when
181 using either ``--legacy-mem`` or ``--single-file-segments`` flags.
183 * eal: EAL library ABI version was changed due to previously announced work on
184 supporting external memory in DPDK:
185 - structure ``rte_memseg_list`` now has a new field indicating length
186 of memory addressed by the segment list
187 - structure ``rte_memseg_list`` now has a new flag indicating whether
188 the memseg list refers to external memory
189 - structure ``rte_malloc_heap`` now has a new field indicating socket
190 ID the malloc heap belongs to
191 - structure ``rte_mem_config`` has had its ``malloc_heaps`` array
192 resized from ``RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES`` to ``RTE_MAX_HEAPS`` value
193 - structure ``rte_malloc_heap`` now has a ``heap_name`` member
194 - structure ``rte_eal_memconfig`` has been extended to contain next
195 socket ID for externally allocated segments
201 .. This section should contain removed items in this release. Sample format:
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211 Shared Library Versions
212 -----------------------
214 .. Update any library version updated in this release
215 and prepend with a ``+`` sign, like this:
218 + librte_cfgfile.so.2
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222 =========================================================
224 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
230 librte_bitratestats.so.2
233 librte_bus_fslmc.so.1
236 + librte_bus_vmbus.so.1
239 librte_common_octeontx.so.1
240 librte_compressdev.so.1
241 librte_cryptodev.so.5
242 librte_distributor.so.1
245 + librte_eventdev.so.6
246 librte_flow_classify.so.1
254 librte_latencystats.so.1
267 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
268 librte_pmd_dpaa2_cmdif.so.1
269 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
271 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
272 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
273 + librte_pmd_netvsc.so.1
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300 * When using SR-IOV (VF) support with netvsc PMD and the Mellanox mlx5 bifurcated
301 driver; the Linux netvsc device must be brought up before the netvsc device is
302 unbound and passed to the DPDK.
308 .. This section should contain a list of platforms that were tested
313 * <vendor> platform with <vendor> <type of devices> combinations
318 * Other relevant details...
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