1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2 Copyright 2019 The DPDK contributors
10 * **Added new armv8 machine targets.**
12 Added new armv8 machine targets:
14 * BlueField (Mellanox)
18 * **Added Windows Support.**
20 Added Windows support to build Hello World sample application.
22 * **Added Stack Library.**
24 Added a new stack library and APIs for configuration and use of a bounded
25 stack of pointers. The API provides multi-thread safe push and pop
26 operations that can operate on one or more pointers per operation.
28 The library supports two stack implementations: standard (lock-based) and
29 lock-free. The lock-free implementation is currently limited to x86-64
32 * **Added Lock-Free Stack Mempool Handler.**
34 Added a new lock-free stack handler, which uses the newly added stack
37 * **Added RCU library.**
39 Added RCU library supporting a quiescent state based memory reclamation method.
40 This library helps identify the quiescent state of the reader threads so
41 that the writers can free the memory associated with the lock free data
44 * **Updated KNI module and PMD.**
46 Updated the KNI kernel module to set the ``max_mtu`` according to the given
47 initial MTU size. Without it, the maximum MTU was 1500.
49 Updated the KNI PMD to set the ``mbuf_size`` and MTU based on
50 the given mb-pool. This provide the ability to pass jumbo frames
51 if the mb-pool contains a suitable buffer size.
53 * **Added the AF_XDP PMD.**
55 Added a Linux-specific PMD for AF_XDP. This PMD can create an AF_XDP socket
56 and bind it to a specific netdev queue. It allows a DPDK application to send
57 and receive raw packets through the socket which would bypass the kernel
58 network stack to achieve high performance packet processing.
60 * **Added a net PMD NFB.**
62 Added the new ``nfb`` net driver for Netcope NFB cards. See
63 the :doc:`../nics/nfb` NIC guide for more details on this new driver.
65 * **Added IPN3KE net PMD.**
67 Added the new ``ipn3ke`` net driver for the IntelĀ® FPGA PAC (Programmable
68 Acceleration Card) N3000. See the :doc:`../nics/ipn3ke` NIC guide for more
69 details on this new driver.
71 In addition ``ifpga_rawdev`` was also updated to support IntelĀ® FPGA PAC
72 N3000 with SPI interface access, I2C Read/Write, and Ethernet PHY configuration.
74 * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
76 Updated the Solarflare ``sfc_efx`` driver with changes including:
78 * Added support for Rx descriptor status and related API in a secondary
80 * Added support for Tx descriptor status API in a secondary process.
81 * Added support for RSS RETA and hash configuration reading API in a
83 * Added support for Rx packet types list in a secondary process.
84 * Added Tx prepare to do Tx offloads checks.
85 * Added support for VXLAN and GENEVE encapsulated TSO.
87 * **Updated Mellanox mlx4 driver.**
89 Updated Mellanox mlx4 driver with new features and improvements, including:
91 * Added firmware version reading.
92 * Added support for secondary processes.
93 * Added support of per-process device registers. Reserving identical VA space
94 is not needed anymore.
95 * Added support for multicast address list interfaces.
97 * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
99 Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
101 * Added firmware version reading.
102 * Added support for new naming scheme of representor.
103 * Added support for new PCI device DMA map/unmap API.
104 * Added support for multiport InfiniBand device.
105 * Added control of excessive memory pinning by kernel.
106 * Added support of DMA memory registration by secondary process.
107 * Added support of per-process device registers. Reserving identical VA space
108 is not required anymore.
109 * Added support for jump action for both E-Switch and NIC.
110 * Added Support for multiple rte_flow groups in NIC steering.
111 * Flow engine re-designed to support large scale deployments. this includes:
112 * Support millions of offloaded flow rules.
113 * Fast flow insertion and deletion up to 1M flow update per second.
115 * **Renamed avf to iavf.**
117 Renamed Intel Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function driver ``avf`` to ``iavf``,
118 which includes the directory name, lib name, filenames, makefile, docs,
119 macros, functions, structs and any other strings in the code.
121 * **Updated the enic driver.**
123 Updated enic driver with new features and improvements, including:
125 * Fixed several flow (director) bugs related to MARK, SCTP, VLAN, VXLAN, and
126 inner packet matching.
127 * Added limited support for RAW.
128 * Added limited support for RSS.
129 * Added limited support for PASSTHRU.
131 * **Updated the ixgbe driver.**
133 Updated the ixgbe driver to add promiscuous mode support for the VF.
135 * **Updated the ice driver.**
137 Updated ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
139 * Added support of SSE and AVX2 instructions in Rx and Tx paths.
140 * Added package download support.
141 * Added Safe Mode support.
142 * Supported RSS for UPD/TCP/SCTP+IPV4/IPV6 packets.
144 * **Updated the i40e driver.**
146 New features for PF in the i40e driver:
148 * Added support for VXLAN-GPE packet.
149 * Added support for VXLAN-GPE classification.
151 * **Updated the ENETC driver.**
153 Updated ENETC driver with new features and improvements, including:
155 * Added physical addressing mode support.
156 * Added SXGMII interface support.
157 * Added basic statistics support.
158 * Added promiscuous and allmulticast mode support.
159 * Added MTU update support.
160 * Added jumbo frame support.
161 * Added queue start/stop.
162 * Added CRC offload support.
163 * Added Rx checksum offload validation support.
165 * **Updated the atlantic PMD.**
167 Added MACSEC hardware offload experimental API.
169 * **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) compression PMD.**
171 Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) compression PMD to simplify,
172 and make more robust, the handling of Scatter Gather Lists (SGLs) with more
175 * **Updated the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) symmetric crypto PMD.**
177 Added support for AES-XTS with 128 and 256 bit AES keys.
179 * **Added Intel QuickAssist Technology PMD for asymmetric crypto.**
181 Added a new QAT Crypto PMD which provides asymmetric cryptography
182 algorithms. Modular exponentiation and modular multiplicative
183 inverse algorithms were added in this release.
185 * **Updated AESNI-MB PMD.**
187 Added support for out-of-place operations.
189 * **Updated the IPsec library.**
191 The IPsec library has been updated with AES-CTR and 3DES-CBC cipher algorithms
192 support. The related ``ipsec-secgw`` test scripts have been added.
194 * **Updated the testpmd application.**
196 Improved the ``testpmd`` application performance on ARM platform. For ``macswap``
197 forwarding mode, NEON intrinsics are now used to do swap to save CPU cycles.
199 * **Updated power management library.**
201 Added support for Intel Speed Select Technology - Base Frequency (SST-BF).
202 The ``rte_power_get_capabilities`` struct now has a bit in it's returned mask
203 indicating if it is a high frequency core.
205 * **Updated distributor sample application.**
207 Added support for the Intel SST-BF feature so that the distributor core is
208 pinned to a high frequency core if available.
214 * eal: the type of the ``attr_value`` parameter of the function
215 ``rte_service_attr_get()`` has been changed
216 from ``uint32_t *`` to ``uint64_t *``.
218 * meter: replace ``enum rte_meter_color`` in the meter library with new
219 ``rte_color`` definition added in 19.02. Replacements with ``rte_color``
220 values has been performed in many places such as ``rte_mtr.h`` and
221 ``rte_tm.h`` to consolidate multiple color definitions.
223 * vfio: Functions ``rte_vfio_container_dma_map`` and
224 ``rte_vfio_container_dma_unmap`` have been extended with an option to
225 request mapping or un-mapping to the default vfio container fd.
227 * power: ``rte_power_set_env`` and ``rte_power_unset_env`` functions
228 have been modified to be thread safe.
230 * timer: Functions have been introduced that allow multiple instances of the
231 timer lists to be created. In addition they are now allocated in shared
232 memory. New functions allow particular timer lists to be selected when
233 timers are being started, stopped, and managed.
239 * ethdev: Additional fields in rte_eth_dev_info.
241 The ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure has had two extra fields
242 added: ``min_mtu`` and ``max_mtu``. Each of these are of type ``uint16_t``.
243 The values of these fields can be set specifically by the PMDs as
244 supported values can vary from device to device.
246 * cryptodev: in 18.08 a new structure ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` was introduced and
247 included into ``rte_crypto_op``. As the ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` structure was
248 defined as cache-line aligned that caused unintended changes in
249 ``rte_crypto_op`` structure layout and alignment. Remove cache-line
250 alignment for ``rte_crypto_asym_op`` to restore expected ``rte_crypto_op``
251 layout and alignment.
253 * timer: ``rte_timer_subsystem_init`` now returns success or failure to reflect
254 whether it was able to allocate memory.
257 Shared Library Versions
258 -----------------------
260 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
266 librte_bitratestats.so.2
269 librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
270 librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
273 librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
276 librte_compressdev.so.1
277 + librte_cryptodev.so.7
278 librte_distributor.so.1
281 + librte_ethdev.so.12
283 librte_flow_classify.so.1
292 librte_latencystats.so.1
306 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
307 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
309 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
310 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
328 * **On x86 platforms, AVX512 support is disabled with binutils 2.31.**
330 Due to a defect in binutils 2.31 AVX512 support is disabled.
331 DPDK defect: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249
332 GCC defect: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90028
334 * **No software AES-XTS implementation.**
336 There are currently no cryptodev software PMDs available which implement
337 support for the AES-XTS algorithm, so this feature can only be used
338 if compatible hardware and an associated PMD is available.
344 * Intel(R) platforms with Intel(R) NICs combinations
348 * Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3758 @ 2.20GHz
349 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1541 @ 2.10GHz
350 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
351 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz
352 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz
353 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8180 CPU @ 2.50GHz
354 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6139 CPU @ 2.30GHz
364 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4
365 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5
366 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6
378 * Intel(R) 82599ES 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
380 * Firmware version: 0x61bf0001
381 * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:10fb / 8086:10ed
382 * Driver version: 5.2.3 (ixgbe)
384 * Intel(R) Corporation Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T
386 * Firmware version: 0x800003e7
387 * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:15ad / 8086:15a8
388 * Driver version: 4.4.6 (ixgbe)
390 * Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10G X550T
392 * Firmware version: 0x80000482
393 * Device id (pf): 8086:1563
394 * Driver version: 5.1.0-k(ixgbe)
396 * Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA4 (4x10G)
398 * Firmware version: 6.80 0x80003cc1
399 * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1572 / 8086:154c
400 * Driver version: 2.7.29 (i40e)
402 * Intel(R) Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ (4x10G)
404 * Firmware version: 3.33 0x80000fd5 0.0.0
405 * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:37d0 / 8086:37cd
406 * Driver version: 2.7.29 (i40e)
408 * Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (2x25G)
410 * Firmware version: 6.80 0x80003d05
411 * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:158b / 8086:154c
412 * Driver version: 2.7.29 (i40e)
414 * Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710-QDA2 (2X40G)
416 * Firmware version: 6.80 0x80003cfb
417 * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1583 / 8086:154c
418 * Driver version: 2.7.29 (i40e)
420 * Intel(R) Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
422 * Firmware version: 1.63, 0x80000dda
423 * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1521 / 8086:1520
424 * Driver version: 5.4.0-k (igb)
426 * Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection
428 * Firmware version: 3.25, 0x800006eb, 1.1824.0
429 * Device id (pf): 8086:1533
430 * Driver version: 5.4.0-k(igb)
432 * Intel(R) platforms with Mellanox(R) NICs combinations
436 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz
437 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697A v4 @ 2.60GHz
438 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz
439 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
440 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz
441 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 @ 2.50GHz
442 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz
446 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo)
447 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo)
448 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)
449 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)
450 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)
455 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
457 * MLNX_OFED: 4.5-1.0.1.0
458 * MLNX_OFED: 4.6-1.0.1.1
462 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-3 Pro 40G MCX354A-FCC_Ax (2x40G)
464 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
465 * Device ID: 15b3:1007
466 * Firmware version: 2.42.5000
468 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 10G MCX4111A-XCAT (1x10G)
470 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
471 * Device ID: 15b3:1013
472 * Firmware version: 12.25.1020 and above
474 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 10G MCX4121A-XCAT (2x10G)
476 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
477 * Device ID: 15b3:1013
478 * Firmware version: 12.25.1020 and above
480 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 25G MCX4111A-ACAT (1x25G)
482 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
483 * Device ID: 15b3:1013
484 * Firmware version: 12.25.1020 and above
486 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G)
488 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
489 * Device ID: 15b3:1013
490 * Firmware version: 12.25.1020 and above
492 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 40G MCX4131A-BCAT/MCX413A-BCAT (1x40G)
494 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
495 * Device ID: 15b3:1013
496 * Firmware version: 12.25.1020 and above
498 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 40G MCX415A-BCAT (1x40G)
500 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
501 * Device ID: 15b3:1013
502 * Firmware version: 12.25.1020 and above
504 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX4131A-GCAT/MCX413A-GCAT (1x50G)
506 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
507 * Device ID: 15b3:1013
508 * Firmware version: 12.25.1020 and above
510 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX414A-BCAT (2x50G)
512 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
513 * Device ID: 15b3:1013
514 * Firmware version: 12.25.1020 and above
516 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX415A-GCAT/MCX416A-BCAT/MCX416A-GCAT (2x50G)
518 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
519 * Device ID: 15b3:1013
520 * Firmware version: 12.25.1020 and above
521 * Firmware version: 12.25.1020 and above
523 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX415A-CCAT (1x100G)
525 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
526 * Device ID: 15b3:1013
527 * Firmware version: 12.25.1020 and above
529 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 100G MCX416A-CCAT (2x100G)
531 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
532 * Device ID: 15b3:1013
533 * Firmware version: 12.25.1020 and above
535 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 Lx 10G MCX4121A-XCAT (2x10G)
537 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
538 * Device ID: 15b3:1015
539 * Firmware version: 14.25.1020 and above
541 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 Lx 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G)
543 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
544 * Device ID: 15b3:1015
545 * Firmware version: 14.25.1020 and above
547 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-5 100G MCX556A-ECAT (2x100G)
549 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
550 * Device ID: 15b3:1017
551 * Firmware version: 16.25.1020 and above
553 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-5 Ex EN 100G MCX516A-CDAT (2x100G)
555 * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
556 * Device ID: 15b3:1019
557 * Firmware version: 16.25.1020 and above
559 * Arm platforms with Mellanox(R) NICs combinations
563 * Qualcomm Arm 1.1 2500MHz
567 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo)
571 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 Lx 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G)
573 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
574 * Device ID: 15b3:1015
575 * Firmware version: 14.24.0220
577 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-5 100G MCX556A-ECAT (2x100G)
579 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
580 * Device ID: 15b3:1017
581 * Firmware version: 16.24.0220
583 * Mellanox(R) BlueField SmartNIC
585 * Mellanox(R) BlueField SmartNIC MT416842 (2x25G)
587 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
588 * Device ID: 15b3:a2d2
589 * Firmware version: 18.25.1010
591 * SoC Arm cores running OS:
593 * CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (AltArch)
594 * MLNX_OFED 4.6-1.0.0.0
596 * DPDK application running on Arm cores inside SmartNIC
598 * IBM Power 9 platforms with Mellanox(R) NICs combinations
602 * POWER9 2.2 (pvr 004e 1202) 2300MHz
606 * Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
610 * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-5 100G MCX556A-ECAT (2x100G)
612 * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
613 * Device ID: 15b3:1017
614 * Firmware version: 16.24.1000
618 * MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.6-1.0.1.0