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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 significant)
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57 * **Added support to free hugepages exactly as originally allocated.**
59 Some applications using memory event callbacks (especially for managing
60 RDMA memory regions) require that memory be freed back to the system
61 exactly as it was originally allocated. These applications typically
62 also require that a malloc allocation not span across two separate
63 hugepage allocations. A new ``--match-allocations`` EAL init flag has
64 been added to fulfill both of these requirements.
66 * **Added API to register external memory in DPDK.**
68 A new ``rte_extmem_register``/``rte_extmem_unregister`` API was added to allow
69 chunks of external memory to be registered with DPDK without adding them to
72 * **Support for using virtio-user without hugepages**
74 The --no-huge mode was augmented to use memfd-backed memory (on systems that
75 support memfd), to allow using virtio-user-based NICs without hugepages.
77 * **Updated the enic driver.**
79 * Added support for ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
80 * Added the handler to get firmware version string.
81 * Added support for multicast filtering.
83 * **Added dynamic queues allocation support for i40e VF.**
85 Previously, available queues of VF is reserved by PF at initialize stage.
86 Now both DPDK PF and Kernel PF (>=2.1.14) will support dynamic queue
87 allocation. At runtime, when VF request more queue number exceed the initial
88 reserved amount, PF can allocate up to 16 queues as the request after a VF
91 * **Added ICE net PMD**
93 Added the new ``ice`` net driver for IntelĀ® Ethernet Network Adapters E810.
94 See the :doc:`../nics/ice` NIC guide for more details on this new driver.
96 * **Added support for SW-assisted VDPA live migration.**
98 This SW-assisted VDPA live migration facility helps VDPA devices without
99 logging capability to perform live migration, a mediated SW relay can help
100 devices to track dirty pages caused by DMA. IFC driver has enabled this
101 SW-assisted live migration mode.
103 * **Added a compression performance test tool.**
105 Added a new performance test tool to test the compressdev PMD. The tool tests
106 compression ratio and compression throughput.
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128 which was announced in the previous releases and made in this release.
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137 * eal: Function ``rte_bsf64`` in ``rte_bitmap.h`` has been renamed to
138 ``rte_bsf64_safe`` and moved to ``rte_common.h``. A new ``rte_bsf64`` function
139 has been added in ``rte_common.h`` that follows convention set by existing
140 ``rte_bsf32`` function.
142 * eal: Segment fd API on Linux now sets error code to ``ENOTSUP`` in more cases
143 where segment fd API is not expected to be supported:
145 - On attempt to get segment fd for an externally allocated memory segment
146 - In cases where memfd support would have been required to provide segment
147 fd's (such as in-memory or no-huge mode)
149 * eal: Functions ``rte_malloc_dump_stats()``, ``rte_malloc_dump_heaps()`` and
150 ``rte_malloc_get_socket_stats()`` are no longer safe to call concurrently with
151 ``rte_malloc_heap_create()`` or ``rte_malloc_heap_destroy()`` function calls.
153 * pdump: The ``rte_pdump_set_socket_dir()``, the parameter ``path`` of
154 ``rte_pdump_init()`` and enum ``rte_pdump_socktype`` were deprecated
155 since 18.05 and are removed in this release.
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174 Shared Library Versions
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187 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
193 librte_bitratestats.so.2
196 librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
197 librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
200 librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
203 librte_compressdev.so.1
204 librte_cryptodev.so.5
205 librte_distributor.so.1
210 librte_flow_classify.so.1
218 librte_latencystats.so.1
232 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
233 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
235 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
236 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
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277 * Other relevant details...
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