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41 * Enhanced feature bar to do something else.
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46 * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
47 * Device abstraction libs and PMDs
49 - cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
50 - eventdev (lib, PMDs)
53 * Apps, Examples, Tools (if significant)
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59 * **FreeBSD now supports `--base-virtaddr` EAL option.**
61 FreeBSD version now also supports setting base virtual address for mapping
62 pages and resources into its address space.
64 * **Added Lock-free Stack for aarch64.**
66 The lock-free stack implementation is enabled for aarch64 platforms.
68 * **Updated the enic driver.**
70 * Added support for Geneve with options offload.
71 * Added flow API implementation based on VIC Flow Manager API.
73 * **Added Hisilicon hns3 PMD.**
75 Added the new ``hns3`` net driver for the inbuilt Hisilicon Network
76 Subsystem 3(HNS3) network engine found in the Hisilicon Kunpeng 920 SoC.
77 See the :doc:`../nics/hns3` guide for more details on this new driver.
79 * **Added NXP PFE PMD.**
81 Added the new PFE driver for the NXP LS1012A platform. See the
82 :doc:`../nics/pfe` NIC driver guide for more details on this new driver.
84 * **Updated iavf PMD.**
86 Enable AVX2 data path for iavf PMD.
88 * **Updated the Intel e1000 driver.**
90 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
92 * **Updated the Intel ixgbe driver.**
94 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
96 * **Updated the Intel i40e driver.**
98 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
100 * **Updated the Intel fm10k driver.**
102 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
104 * **Added RX/TX packet burst mode get API.**
106 Added two new functions ``rte_eth_rx_burst_mode_get`` and
107 ``rte_eth_tx_burst_mode_get`` that allow an application
108 to retrieve the mode information about RX/TX packet burst
109 such as Scalar or Vector, and Vector technology like AVX2.
110 Another new function ``rte_eth_burst_mode_option_name`` is
111 provided for burst mode options stringification.
113 * **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
115 Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
117 * Added support for device-specific DDP package loading.
118 * Added support for handling Receive Flex Descriptor.
119 * Added support for protocol extraction on per Rx queue.
120 * Added support for Flow Director filter based on generic filter framework.
121 * Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
122 * Generic filter enhancement
123 - Supported pipeline mode.
124 - Supported new packet type like PPPoE for switch filter.
125 * Supported input set change and symmetric hash by rte_flow RSS action.
126 * Added support for GTP Tx checksum offload.
128 * **Added cryptodev asymmetric session-less operation.**
130 Added session-less option to cryptodev asymmetric structure. It works the same
131 way as symmetric crypto, corresponding xform is used directly by the crypto op.
133 * **Updated the Huawei hinic driver.**
135 Updated the Huawei hinic driver with new features and improvements, including:
137 * Enabled SR-IOV - Partially supported at this point, VFIO only.
138 * Supported VLAN filter and VLAN offload.
139 * Supported Unicast MAC filter and Multicast MAC filter.
140 * Supported Flow director for LACP, VRRP, BGP and so on.
141 * Supported FW version get.
143 * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
145 Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
147 * Added support for VLAN pop flow offload command.
148 * Added support for VLAN push flow offload command.
149 * Added support for VLAN set PCP offload command.
150 * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command.
151 * Added support for matching on packets withe Geneve tunnel header.
153 * **Updated the AF_XDP PMD.**
155 Updated the AF_XDP PMD. The new features include:
157 * Enabled zero copy between application mempools and UMEM by enabling the
158 XDP_UMEM_UNALIGNED_CHUNKS UMEM flag.
160 * **Added Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.**
162 Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Marvell NITROX V security processor.
163 See the :doc:`../cryptodevs/nitrox` guide for more details on this new
165 * **Added asymmetric support to Marvell OCTEON TX crypto PMD.**
167 Added support for asymmetric operations in Marvell OCTEON TX cypto PMD.
168 Supports RSA and modexp operations.
170 * **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD**
172 Added a new PMD driver for h/w crypto offload block on ``OCTEON TX2`` SoC.
174 See :doc:`../cryptodevs/octeontx2` for more details
176 * **Updated NXP crypto PMDs for PDCP support.**
178 PDCP support is added to DPAA_SEC and DPAA2_SEC PMDs using rte_security APIs.
179 Support is added for all sequence number sizes for control and user plane.
180 Test application is updated for unit testing.
182 * **Enabled Single Pass GCM acceleration on QAT GEN3.**
184 Added support for Single Pass GCM, available on QAT GEN3 only (Intel
185 QuickAssist Technology C4xxx). It is automatically chosen instead of the
186 classic 2-pass mode when running on QAT GEN3, significantly improving
187 the performance of AES GCM operations.
189 * **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) asymmetric crypto PMD.**
191 * Added support for asymmetric session-less operations.
192 * Added support for RSA algorithm with pair (n, d) private key representation.
193 * Added support for RSA algorithm with quintuple private key representation.
195 * **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) compression PMD.**
197 Added stateful decompression support in the Intel QuickAssist Technology PMD.
198 Please note that stateful compression is not supported.
200 * **Added external buffers support for dpdk-test-compress-perf tool.**
202 Added a command line option to dpdk-test-compress-perf tool to allocate
203 and use memory zones as external buffers instead of keeping the data directly
206 * **Updated the IPSec library.**
208 Added SA Database API to ``librte_ipsec``. A new test-sad application is also
209 introduced to evaluate and perform custom functional and performance tests
210 for IPsec SAD implementation.
212 * **Introduced FIFO for NTB PMD.**
214 Introduced FIFO for NTB (Non-transparent Bridge) PMD to support
215 packet based processing.
217 * **Added eBPF JIT support for arm64.**
219 Added eBPF JIT support for arm64 architecture to improve the eBPF program
222 * **Updated testpmd.**
224 * Added a console command to testpmd app, ``show port (port_id) ptypes`` which
225 gives ability to print port supported ptypes in different protocol layers.
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240 * Removed duplicated set of commands for Rx offload configuration from testpmd::
242 port config all crc-strip|scatter|rx-cksum|rx-timestamp|
243 hw-vlan|hw-vlan-filter|hw-vlan-strip|hw-vlan-extend on|off
245 The testpmd commands set that can be used instead
246 in order to enable or disable Rx offloading on all Rx queues of a port is::
248 port config <port_id> rx_offload crc_strip|scatter|
249 ipv4_cksum|udp_cksum|tcp_cksum|timestamp|
250 vlan_strip|vlan_filter|vlan_extend on|off
252 * Removed AF_XDP pmd_zero copy vdev argument. Support is now auto-detected.
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270 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_infos_get`` return value from ``void`` to
271 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
273 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_promiscuous_enable`` and
274 ``rte_eth_promiscuous_disable`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to
275 provide a way to report various error conditions.
277 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_allmulticast_enable`` and
278 ``rte_eth_allmulticast_disable`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to
279 provide a way to report various error conditions.
281 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_xstats_reset`` return value from ``void`` to
282 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
284 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_link_get`` and ``rte_eth_link_get_nowait``
285 return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to provide a way to report various
288 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_macaddr_get`` return value from ``void`` to
289 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
291 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_owner_delete`` return value from ``void`` to
292 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
294 * event: The function ``rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_enqueue`` takes an additional
295 input as ``flags``. Flag ``RTE_EVENT_ETH_TX_ADAPTER_ENQUEUE_SAME_DEST`` which
296 has been introduced in this release is used when used when all the packets
297 enqueued in the tx adapter are destined for the same Ethernet port & Tx queue.
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316 Shared Library Versions
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327 =========================================================
329 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
335 librte_bitratestats.so.2
338 librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
339 librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
342 librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
345 librte_compressdev.so.1
346 librte_cryptodev.so.8
347 librte_distributor.so.1
350 + librte_ethdev.so.13
351 + librte_eventdev.so.8
352 librte_flow_classify.so.1
361 librte_latencystats.so.1
375 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
376 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
378 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
379 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
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422 * Other relevant details...
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