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2 Copyright 2019 The DPDK contributors
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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 Stack API.**
59 Added a new stack API for configuration and use of a bounded stack of
60 pointers. The API provides MT-safe push and pop operations that can operate
61 on one or more pointers per operation.
63 * **Updated KNI module and PMD.**
65 Updated the KNI kernel module to set the max_mtu according to the given
66 initial MTU size. Without it, the maximum MTU was 1500.
68 Updated the KNI PMD driver to set the mbuf_size and MTU based on
69 the given mb-pool. This provide the ability to pass jumbo frames
70 if the mb-pool contains suitable buffers' size.
72 * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
74 Updated the sfc_efx driver including the following changes:
76 * Added support for Rx descriptor status and related API in a secondary
78 * Added support for Tx descriptor status API in a secondary process.
79 * Added support for RSS RETA and hash configuration get API in a secondary
81 * Added support for Rx packet types list in a secondary process.
83 * **Updated Mellanox drivers.**
85 New features and improvements were done in mlx4 and mlx5 PMDs:
87 * Added firmware version reading.
89 * **Renamed avf to iavf.**
91 Renamed Intel Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function driver ``avf`` to ``iavf``,
92 which includes the directory name, lib name, filenames, makefile, docs,
93 macros, functions, structs and any other strings in the code.
95 * **Updated the enic driver.**
97 * Fixed several flow (director) bugs related to MARK, SCTP, VLAN, VXLAN, and
98 inner packet matching.
99 * Added limited support for RAW.
100 * Added limited support for RSS.
101 * Added limited support for PASSTHRU.
103 * **Updated the ixgbe driver.**
107 * Added promiscuous mode support.
109 * **Updated the ice driver.**
111 * Added support of SSE and AVX2 instructions in Rx and Tx paths.
112 * Added package download support.
113 * Added Safe Mode support.
114 * Supported RSS for UPD/TCP/SCTP+IPV4/IPV6 packets.
116 * **Updated the QuickAssist Technology PMD.**
118 Added support for AES-XTS with 128 and 256 bit AES keys.
120 * **Updated AESNI-MB PMD.**
122 Added support for out-of-place operations.
124 * **Updated the IPsec library.**
126 The IPsec library has been updated with AES-CTR and 3DES-CBC cipher algorithms
127 support. The related ipsec-secgw test scripts have been added.
129 * **Updated the testpmd application.**
131 Improved testpmd application performance on ARM platform. For ``macswap``
132 forwarding mode, NEON intrinsics were used to do swap to save CPU cycles.
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154 which was announced in the previous releases and made in this release.
155 Start with a scope label like "ethdev:".
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163 * eal: the type of the ``attr_value`` parameter of the function
164 ``rte_service_attr_get()`` has been changed
165 from ``uint32_t *`` to ``uint64_t *``.
167 * vfio: Functions ``rte_vfio_container_dma_map`` and
168 ``rte_vfio_container_dma_unmap`` have been extended with an option to
169 request mapping or un-mapping to the default vfio container fd.
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179 Start with a scope label like "ethdev:".
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187 * ethdev: Additional fields in rte_eth_dev_info.
189 The ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure has had two extra fields
190 added: ``min_mtu`` and ``max_mtu``. Each of these are of type ``uint16_t``.
191 The values of these fields can be set specifically by the PMD drivers as
192 supported values can vary from device to device.
194 * cryptodev: in 18.08 new structure ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` was introduced and
195 included into ``rte_crypto_op``. As ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` structure was
196 defined as cache-line aligned that caused unintended changes in
197 ``rte_crypto_op`` structure layout and alignment. Remove cache-line
198 alignment for ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` to restore expected ``rte_crypto_op``
199 layout and alignment.
202 Shared Library Versions
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215 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
221 librte_bitratestats.so.2
224 librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
225 librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
228 librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
231 librte_compressdev.so.1
232 + librte_cryptodev.so.7
233 librte_distributor.so.1
236 + librte_ethdev.so.12
238 librte_flow_classify.so.1
247 librte_latencystats.so.1
261 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
262 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
264 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
265 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
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293 * **No software AES-XTS implementation.**
295 There are currently no cryptodev software PMDs available which implement
296 support for the AES-XTS algorithm, so this feature can only be used
297 if compatible hardware and an associated PMD is available.
303 .. This section should contain a list of platforms that were tested
308 * <vendor> platform with <vendor> <type of devices> combinations
313 * Other relevant details...
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