1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2 Copyright 2019 The DPDK contributors
4 .. include:: <isonum.txt>
9 .. **Read this first.**
11 The text in the sections below explains how to update the release notes.
13 Use proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation in all sections.
15 Variable and config names should be quoted as fixed width text:
18 Build the docs and view the output file to ensure the changes are correct::
22 xdg-open build/doc/html/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.html
28 .. This section should contain new features added in this release.
31 * **Add a title in the past tense with a full stop.**
33 Add a short 1-2 sentence description in the past tense.
34 The description should be enough to allow someone scanning
35 the release notes to understand the new feature.
37 If the feature adds a lot of sub-features you can use a bullet list
40 * Added feature foo to do something.
41 * Enhanced feature bar to do something else.
43 Refer to the previous release notes for examples.
45 Suggested order in release notes items:
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)
55 This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it.
56 Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
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 * **Updated the enic driver.**
87 * Added support for Geneve with options offload.
88 * Added flow API implementation based on VIC Flow Manager API.
90 * **Added Hisilicon hns3 PMD.**
92 Added the new ``hns3`` net driver for the inbuilt Hisilicon Network
93 Subsystem 3(HNS3) network engine found in the Hisilicon Kunpeng 920 SoC.
94 See the :doc:`../nics/hns3` guide for more details on this new driver.
96 * **Added NXP PFE PMD.**
98 Added the new PFE driver for the NXP LS1012A platform. See the
99 :doc:`../nics/pfe` NIC driver guide for more details on this new driver.
101 * **Updated iavf PMD.**
103 Enable AVX2 data path for iavf PMD.
105 * **Updated the Intel e1000 driver.**
107 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
109 * **Updated the Intel ixgbe driver.**
111 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
113 * **Updated the Intel i40e driver.**
115 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
117 * **Updated the Intel fm10k driver.**
119 Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
121 * **Added RX/TX packet burst mode get API.**
123 Added two new functions ``rte_eth_rx_burst_mode_get`` and
124 ``rte_eth_tx_burst_mode_get`` that allow an application
125 to retrieve the mode information about RX/TX packet burst
126 such as Scalar or Vector, and Vector technology like AVX2.
127 Another new function ``rte_eth_burst_mode_option_name`` is
128 provided for burst mode options stringification.
130 * **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
132 Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
134 * Added support for device-specific DDP package loading.
135 * Added support for handling Receive Flex Descriptor.
136 * Added support for protocol extraction on per Rx queue.
137 * Added support for Flow Director filter based on generic filter framework.
138 * Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag.
139 * Generic filter enhancement
140 - Supported pipeline mode.
141 - Supported new packet type like PPPoE for switch filter.
142 * Supported input set change and symmetric hash by rte_flow RSS action.
143 * Added support for GTP Tx checksum offload.
145 * **Added cryptodev asymmetric session-less operation.**
147 Added session-less option to cryptodev asymmetric structure. It works the same
148 way as symmetric crypto, corresponding xform is used directly by the crypto op.
150 * **Updated the Huawei hinic driver.**
152 Updated the Huawei hinic driver with new features and improvements, including:
154 * Enabled SR-IOV - Partially supported at this point, VFIO only.
155 * Supported VLAN filter and VLAN offload.
156 * Supported Unicast MAC filter and Multicast MAC filter.
157 * Supported Flow director for LACP, VRRP, BGP and so on.
158 * Supported FW version get.
160 * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
162 Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
164 * Added support for VLAN pop flow offload command.
165 * Added support for VLAN push flow offload command.
166 * Added support for VLAN set PCP offload command.
167 * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command.
168 * Added support for matching on packets withe Geneve tunnel header.
170 * **Updated the AF_XDP PMD.**
172 Updated the AF_XDP PMD. The new features include:
174 * Enabled zero copy between application mempools and UMEM by enabling the
175 XDP_UMEM_UNALIGNED_CHUNKS UMEM flag.
177 * **Added Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.**
179 Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Marvell NITROX V security processor.
180 See the :doc:`../cryptodevs/nitrox` guide for more details on this new
182 * **Added asymmetric support to Marvell OCTEON TX crypto PMD.**
184 Added support for asymmetric operations in Marvell OCTEON TX cypto PMD.
185 Supports RSA and modexp operations.
187 * **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD**
189 Added a new PMD driver for h/w crypto offload block on ``OCTEON TX2`` SoC.
191 See :doc:`../cryptodevs/octeontx2` for more details
193 * **Updated NXP crypto PMDs for PDCP support.**
195 PDCP support is added to DPAA_SEC and DPAA2_SEC PMDs using rte_security APIs.
196 Support is added for all sequence number sizes for control and user plane.
197 Test application is updated for unit testing.
199 * **Enabled Single Pass GCM acceleration on QAT GEN3.**
201 Added support for Single Pass GCM, available on QAT GEN3 only (Intel
202 QuickAssist Technology C4xxx). It is automatically chosen instead of the
203 classic 2-pass mode when running on QAT GEN3, significantly improving
204 the performance of AES GCM operations.
206 * **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) asymmetric crypto PMD.**
208 * Added support for asymmetric session-less operations.
209 * Added support for RSA algorithm with pair (n, d) private key representation.
210 * Added support for RSA algorithm with quintuple private key representation.
212 * **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) compression PMD.**
214 Added stateful decompression support in the Intel QuickAssist Technology PMD.
215 Please note that stateful compression is not supported.
217 * **Added external buffers support for dpdk-test-compress-perf tool.**
219 Added a command line option to dpdk-test-compress-perf tool to allocate
220 and use memory zones as external buffers instead of keeping the data directly
223 * **Updated the IPSec library.**
225 * Added SA Database API to ``librte_ipsec``. A new test-sad application is also
226 introduced to evaluate and perform custom functional and performance tests
227 for IPsec SAD implementation.
229 * Support fragmented packets in inline crypto processing mode with fallback
230 ``lookaside-none`` session. Corresponding changes are also added in IPsec
231 Security Gateway application.
233 * **Introduced FIFO for NTB PMD.**
235 Introduced FIFO for NTB (Non-transparent Bridge) PMD to support
236 packet based processing.
238 * **Added eBPF JIT support for arm64.**
240 Added eBPF JIT support for arm64 architecture to improve the eBPF program
243 * **Added RIB and FIB (Routing/Forwarding Information Base) libraries.**
245 RIB and FIB can replace the LPM (Longest Prefix Match) library
246 with better control plane (RIB) performance.
247 The data plane (FIB) can be extended with new algorithms.
249 * **Updated testpmd.**
251 * Added a console command to testpmd app, ``show port (port_id) ptypes`` which
252 gives ability to print port supported ptypes in different protocol layers.
254 * **Added new example l2fwd-event application.**
256 Added an example application `l2fwd-event` that adds event device support to
257 traditional l2fwd example. It demonstrates usage of poll and event mode IO
258 mechanism under a single application.
260 * **Added build support for Link Time Optimization.**
262 LTO is an optimization technique used by the compiler to perform whole
263 program analysis and optimization at link time. In order to do that
264 compilers store their internal representation of the source code that
265 the linker uses at the final stage of compilation process.
267 See :doc:`../prog_guide/lto` for more information:
273 .. This section should contain removed items in this release. Sample format:
275 * Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the removed item
278 This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it.
279 Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
280 =========================================================
282 * Removed duplicated set of commands for Rx offload configuration from testpmd::
284 port config all crc-strip|scatter|rx-cksum|rx-timestamp|
285 hw-vlan|hw-vlan-filter|hw-vlan-strip|hw-vlan-extend on|off
287 The testpmd commands set that can be used instead
288 in order to enable or disable Rx offloading on all Rx queues of a port is::
290 port config <port_id> rx_offload crc_strip|scatter|
291 ipv4_cksum|udp_cksum|tcp_cksum|timestamp|
292 vlan_strip|vlan_filter|vlan_extend on|off
294 * Removed AF_XDP pmd_zero copy vdev argument. Support is now auto-detected.
296 * The following sample applications have been removed in this release:
299 * L3 Forwarding in a Virtualization Environment
301 * Netmap Compatibility
302 * Quota and Watermark
305 * Removed arm64-dpaa2-* build config. arm64-dpaa-* can now build for both
306 dpaa and dpaa2 platforms.
312 .. This section should contain API changes. Sample format:
314 * sample: Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the API change
315 which was announced in the previous releases and made in this release.
316 Start with a scope label like "ethdev:".
317 Use fixed width quotes for ``function_names`` or ``struct_names``.
320 This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it.
321 Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
322 =========================================================
324 * eal: made the ``lcore_config`` struct and global symbol private.
326 * eal: removed the ``rte_cpu_check_supported`` function, replaced by
327 ``rte_cpu_is_supported`` since dpdk v17.08.
329 * eal: removed the ``rte_malloc_virt2phy`` function, replaced by
330 ``rte_malloc_virt2iova`` since v17.11.
332 * eal: made the ``rte_config`` struct and ``rte_eal_get_configuration``
335 * mem: hid the internal ``malloc_heap`` structure and the
336 ``rte_malloc_heap.h`` header.
338 * vfio: removed ``rte_vfio_dma_map`` and ``rte_vfio_dma_unmap`` that have
339 been marked as deprecated in release 19.05.
340 ``rte_vfio_container_dma_map`` and ``rte_vfio_container_dma_unmap`` can
341 be used as substitutes.
343 * pci: removed the following functions deprecated since dpdk v17.11:
345 - ``eal_parse_pci_BDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
346 - ``eal_parse_pci_DomBDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
347 - ``rte_eal_compare_pci_addr`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_cmp``
349 * The network structure ``esp_tail`` has been prefixed by ``rte_``.
351 * The network definitions of PPPoE ethertypes have been prefixed by ``RTE_``.
353 * The network structure for MPLS has been prefixed by ``rte_``.
355 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_infos_get`` return value from ``void`` to
356 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
358 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_promiscuous_enable`` and
359 ``rte_eth_promiscuous_disable`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to
360 provide a way to report various error conditions.
362 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_allmulticast_enable`` and
363 ``rte_eth_allmulticast_disable`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to
364 provide a way to report various error conditions.
366 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_xstats_reset`` return value from ``void`` to
367 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
369 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_link_get`` and ``rte_eth_link_get_nowait``
370 return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to provide a way to report various
373 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_macaddr_get`` return value from ``void`` to
374 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
376 * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_owner_delete`` return value from ``void`` to
377 ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions.
379 * event: The function ``rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_enqueue`` takes an additional
380 input as ``flags``. Flag ``RTE_EVENT_ETH_TX_ADAPTER_ENQUEUE_SAME_DEST`` which
381 has been introduced in this release is used when used when all the packets
382 enqueued in the tx adapter are destined for the same Ethernet port & Tx queue.
384 * sched: The pipe nodes configuration parameters such as number of pipes,
385 pipe queue sizes, pipe profiles, etc., are moved from port level structure
386 to subport level. This allows different subports of the same port to
387 have different configuration for the pipe nodes.
393 .. This section should contain ABI changes. Sample format:
395 * sample: Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the ABI change
396 which was announced in the previous releases and made in this release.
397 Start with a scope label like "ethdev:".
398 Use fixed width quotes for ``function_names`` or ``struct_names``.
401 This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it.
402 Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
403 =========================================================
405 * net: The Ethernet address and other header definitions have changed
406 attributes. They have been modified to be aligned on 2-byte boundaries.
407 These changes should not impact normal usage because drivers naturally
408 align the Ethernet header on receive and all known encapsulations
409 preserve the alignment of the header.
411 * security: The field ``replay_win_sz`` has been moved from ipsec library
412 based ``rte_ipsec_sa_prm`` structure to security library based structure
413 ``rte_security_ipsec_xform``, which specify the Anti replay window size
414 to enable sequence replay attack handling.
416 * ipsec: The field ``replay_win_sz`` has been removed from the structure
417 ``rte_ipsec_sa_prm`` as it has been added to the security library.
420 Shared Library Versions
421 -----------------------
423 .. Update any library version updated in this release
424 and prepend with a ``+`` sign, like this:
430 This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it.
431 =========================================================
433 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
439 librte_bitratestats.so.2
442 librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
443 librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
446 librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
449 librte_compressdev.so.1
450 librte_cryptodev.so.8
451 librte_distributor.so.1
454 + librte_ethdev.so.13
455 + librte_eventdev.so.8
457 librte_flow_classify.so.1
466 librte_latencystats.so.1
480 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
481 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
483 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
484 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
493 + librte_security.so.3
503 .. This section should contain new known issues in this release. Sample format:
505 * **Add title in present tense with full stop.**
507 Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the known issue
508 in the present tense. Add information on any known workarounds.
510 This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it.
511 Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
512 =========================================================
518 .. This section should contain a list of platforms that were tested
523 * <vendor> platform with <vendor> <type of devices> combinations
528 * Other relevant details...
530 This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it.
531 Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
532 =========================================================