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2 Copyright 2019 The DPDK contributors
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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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57 =========================================================
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 * **Changed mempool allocation behaviour.**
70 Objects are no longer across pages by default.
71 It may consume more memory when using small memory pages.
73 * **Added support of dynamic fields and flags in mbuf.**
75 This new feature adds the ability to dynamically register some room
76 for a field or a flag in the mbuf structure. This is typically used
77 for specific offload features, where adding a static field or flag
78 in the mbuf is not justified.
80 * **Added hairpin queue.**
82 On supported NICs, we can now setup haipin queue which will offload packets
83 from the wire, backto the wire.
85 * **Added flow tag in rte_flow.**
87 SET_TAG action and TAG item have been added to support transient flow tag.
89 * **Updated the enic driver.**
91 * Added support for Geneve with options offload.
92 * Added flow API implementation based on VIC Flow Manager API.
94 * **Added Hisilicon hns3 PMD.**
96 Added the new ``hns3`` net driver for the inbuilt Hisilicon Network
97 Subsystem 3(HNS3) network engine found in the Hisilicon Kunpeng 920 SoC.
98 See the :doc:`../nics/hns3` guide for more details on this new driver.
100 * **Added NXP PFE PMD.**
102 Added the new PFE driver for the NXP LS1012A platform. See the
103 :doc:`../nics/pfe` NIC driver guide for more details on this new driver.
105 * **Updated iavf PMD.**
107 Enable AVX2 data path for iavf PMD.
109 * **Updated the Intel e1000 driver.**
111 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
113 * **Updated the Intel ixgbe driver.**
115 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
117 * **Updated the Intel i40e driver.**
119 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
121 * **Updated the Intel fm10k driver.**
123 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
125 * **Added RX/TX packet burst mode get API.**
127 Added two new functions ``rte_eth_rx_burst_mode_get`` and
128 ``rte_eth_tx_burst_mode_get`` that allow an application
129 to retrieve the mode information about RX/TX packet burst
130 such as Scalar or Vector, and Vector technology like AVX2.
132 * **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
134 Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
136 * Added support for device-specific DDP package loading.
137 * Added support for handling Receive Flex Descriptor.
138 * Added support for protocol extraction on per Rx queue.
139 * Added support for Flow Director filter based on generic filter framework.
140 * Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
141 * Generic filter enhancement
142 - Supported pipeline mode.
143 - Supported new packet type like PPPoE for switch filter.
144 * Supported input set change and symmetric hash by rte_flow RSS action.
145 * Added support for GTP Tx checksum offload.
147 * **Added cryptodev asymmetric session-less operation.**
149 Added session-less option to cryptodev asymmetric structure. It works the same
150 way as symmetric crypto, corresponding xform is used directly by the crypto op.
152 * **Updated the Huawei hinic driver.**
154 Updated the Huawei hinic driver with new features and improvements, including:
156 * Enabled SR-IOV - Partially supported at this point, VFIO only.
157 * Supported VLAN filter and VLAN offload.
158 * Supported Unicast MAC filter and Multicast MAC filter.
159 * Supported Flow director for LACP, VRRP, BGP and so on.
160 * Supported FW version get.
162 * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
164 Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
166 * Added support for VLAN pop flow offload command.
167 * Added support for VLAN push flow offload command.
168 * Added support for VLAN set PCP offload command.
169 * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command.
170 * Added support for matching on packets withe Geneve tunnel header.
171 * Added hairpin support.
173 * **Updated the AF_XDP PMD.**
175 Updated the AF_XDP PMD. The new features include:
177 * Enabled zero copy between application mempools and UMEM by enabling the
178 XDP_UMEM_UNALIGNED_CHUNKS UMEM flag.
180 * **Added Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.**
182 Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Marvell NITROX V security processor.
183 See the :doc:`../cryptodevs/nitrox` guide for more details on this new
185 * **Added asymmetric support to Marvell OCTEON TX crypto PMD.**
187 Added support for asymmetric operations in Marvell OCTEON TX cypto PMD.
188 Supports RSA and modexp operations.
190 * **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD**
192 Added a new PMD driver for h/w crypto offload block on ``OCTEON TX2`` SoC.
194 See :doc:`../cryptodevs/octeontx2` for more details
196 * **Updated NXP crypto PMDs for PDCP support.**
198 PDCP support is added to DPAA_SEC and DPAA2_SEC PMDs using rte_security APIs.
199 Support is added for all sequence number sizes for control and user plane.
200 Test application is updated for unit testing.
202 * **Enabled Single Pass GCM acceleration on QAT GEN3.**
204 Added support for Single Pass GCM, available on QAT GEN3 only (Intel
205 QuickAssist Technology C4xxx). It is automatically chosen instead of the
206 classic 2-pass mode when running on QAT GEN3, significantly improving
207 the performance of AES GCM operations.
209 * **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) asymmetric crypto PMD.**
211 * Added support for asymmetric session-less operations.
212 * Added support for RSA algorithm with pair (n, d) private key representation.
213 * Added support for RSA algorithm with quintuple private key representation.
215 * **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) compression PMD.**
217 Added stateful decompression support in the Intel QuickAssist Technology PMD.
218 Please note that stateful compression is not supported.
220 * **Added external buffers support for dpdk-test-compress-perf tool.**
222 Added a command line option to dpdk-test-compress-perf tool to allocate
223 and use memory zones as external buffers instead of keeping the data directly
226 * **Updated the IPSec library.**
228 * Added SA Database API to ``librte_ipsec``. A new test-sad application is also
229 introduced to evaluate and perform custom functional and performance tests
230 for IPsec SAD implementation.
232 * Support fragmented packets in inline crypto processing mode with fallback
233 ``lookaside-none`` session. Corresponding changes are also added in IPsec
234 Security Gateway application.
236 * **Introduced FIFO for NTB PMD.**
238 Introduced FIFO for NTB (Non-transparent Bridge) PMD to support
239 packet based processing.
241 * **Added eBPF JIT support for arm64.**
243 Added eBPF JIT support for arm64 architecture to improve the eBPF program
246 * **Added RIB and FIB (Routing/Forwarding Information Base) libraries.**
248 RIB and FIB can replace the LPM (Longest Prefix Match) library
249 with better control plane (RIB) performance.
250 The data plane (FIB) can be extended with new algorithms.
252 * **Updated testpmd.**
254 * Added a console command to testpmd app, ``show port (port_id) ptypes`` which
255 gives ability to print port supported ptypes in different protocol layers.
257 * **Added new example l2fwd-event application.**
259 Added an example application `l2fwd-event` that adds event device support to
260 traditional l2fwd example. It demonstrates usage of poll and event mode IO
261 mechanism under a single application.
263 * **Added build support for Link Time Optimization.**
265 LTO is an optimization technique used by the compiler to perform whole
266 program analysis and optimization at link time. In order to do that
267 compilers store their internal representation of the source code that
268 the linker uses at the final stage of compilation process.
270 See :doc:`../prog_guide/lto` for more information:
276 .. This section should contain removed items in this release. Sample format:
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285 * Removed duplicated set of commands for Rx offload configuration from testpmd::
287 port config all crc-strip|scatter|rx-cksum|rx-timestamp|
288 hw-vlan|hw-vlan-filter|hw-vlan-strip|hw-vlan-extend on|off
290 The testpmd commands set that can be used instead
291 in order to enable or disable Rx offloading on all Rx queues of a port is::
293 port config <port_id> rx_offload crc_strip|scatter|
294 ipv4_cksum|udp_cksum|tcp_cksum|timestamp|
295 vlan_strip|vlan_filter|vlan_extend on|off
297 * Removed AF_XDP pmd_zero copy vdev argument. Support is now auto-detected.
299 * The following sample applications have been removed in this release:
302 * L3 Forwarding in a Virtualization Environment
304 * Netmap Compatibility
305 * Quota and Watermark
308 * Removed arm64-dpaa2-* build config. arm64-dpaa-* can now build for both
309 dpaa and dpaa2 platforms.
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318 which was announced in the previous releases and made in this release.
319 Start with a scope label like "ethdev:".
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325 =========================================================
327 * eal: made the ``lcore_config`` struct and global symbol private.
329 * eal: removed the ``rte_cpu_check_supported`` function, replaced by
330 ``rte_cpu_is_supported`` since dpdk v17.08.
332 * eal: removed the ``rte_malloc_virt2phy`` function, replaced by
333 ``rte_malloc_virt2iova`` since v17.11.
335 * eal: made the ``rte_config`` struct and ``rte_eal_get_configuration``
338 * mem: hid the internal ``malloc_heap`` structure and the
339 ``rte_malloc_heap.h`` header.
341 * vfio: removed ``rte_vfio_dma_map`` and ``rte_vfio_dma_unmap`` that have
342 been marked as deprecated in release 19.05.
343 ``rte_vfio_container_dma_map`` and ``rte_vfio_container_dma_unmap`` can
344 be used as substitutes.
346 * pci: removed the following functions deprecated since dpdk v17.11:
348 - ``eal_parse_pci_BDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
349 - ``eal_parse_pci_DomBDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
350 - ``rte_eal_compare_pci_addr`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_cmp``
352 * The network structure ``esp_tail`` has been prefixed by ``rte_``.
354 * The network definitions of PPPoE ethertypes have been prefixed by ``RTE_``.
356 * The network structure for MPLS has been prefixed by ``rte_``.
358 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_infos_get`` return value from ``void`` to
359 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
361 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_promiscuous_enable`` and
362 ``rte_eth_promiscuous_disable`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to
363 provide a way to report various error conditions.
365 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_allmulticast_enable`` and
366 ``rte_eth_allmulticast_disable`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to
367 provide a way to report various error conditions.
369 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_xstats_reset`` return value from ``void`` to
370 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
372 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_link_get`` and ``rte_eth_link_get_nowait``
373 return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to provide a way to report various
376 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_macaddr_get`` return value from ``void`` to
377 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
379 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_owner_delete`` return value from ``void`` to
380 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
382 * ethdev: The deprecated function ``rte_eth_dev_count`` was removed.
383 The function ``rte_eth_dev_count_avail`` is a drop-in replacement.
384 If the intent is to iterate over ports, ``RTE_ETH_FOREACH_*`` macros
385 are better port iterators.
387 * event: The function ``rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_enqueue`` takes an additional
388 input as ``flags``. Flag ``RTE_EVENT_ETH_TX_ADAPTER_ENQUEUE_SAME_DEST`` which
389 has been introduced in this release is used when used when all the packets
390 enqueued in the tx adapter are destined for the same Ethernet port & Tx queue.
392 * sched: The pipe nodes configuration parameters such as number of pipes,
393 pipe queue sizes, pipe profiles, etc., are moved from port level structure
394 to subport level. This allows different subports of the same port to
395 have different configuration for the pipe nodes.
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411 =========================================================
413 * net: The Ethernet address and other header definitions have changed
414 attributes. They have been modified to be aligned on 2-byte boundaries.
415 These changes should not impact normal usage because drivers naturally
416 align the Ethernet header on receive and all known encapsulations
417 preserve the alignment of the header.
419 * security: The field ``replay_win_sz`` has been moved from ipsec library
420 based ``rte_ipsec_sa_prm`` structure to security library based structure
421 ``rte_security_ipsec_xform``, which specify the Anti replay window size
422 to enable sequence replay attack handling.
424 * ipsec: The field ``replay_win_sz`` has been removed from the structure
425 ``rte_ipsec_sa_prm`` as it has been added to the security library.
428 Shared Library Versions
429 -----------------------
431 .. Update any library version updated in this release
432 and prepend with a ``+`` sign, like this:
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439 =========================================================
441 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
447 librte_bitratestats.so.2
450 librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
451 librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
454 librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
457 librte_compressdev.so.1
458 librte_cryptodev.so.8
459 librte_distributor.so.1
462 + librte_ethdev.so.13
463 + librte_eventdev.so.8
465 librte_flow_classify.so.1
474 librte_latencystats.so.1
488 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
489 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
491 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
492 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
501 + librte_security.so.3
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536 * Other relevant details...
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