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46 * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
47 * Device abstraction libs and PMDs
49 - cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
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53 * Apps, Examples, Tools (if significant)
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59 * **rte_*mb APIs are updated to use DMB instruction for ARMv8.**
61 ARMv8 memory model has been strengthened to require other-multi-copy
62 atomicity. This allows for using DMB instruction instead of DSB for IO
63 barriers. rte_*mb APIs, for ARMv8 platforms, are changed to use DMB
64 instruction to reflect this.
66 * **Added the support for vfio-pci new VF token interface.**
68 From Linux 5.7, vfio-pci supports to bind both SR-IOV PF and the created VFs,
69 it uses a shared VF token (UUID) to represent the collaboration between PF
70 and VFs. Update DPDK PCI driver to gain the access to the PF and VFs devices
71 by appending the VF token parameter.
73 * **Added the RegEx Library, a generic RegEx service library.**
75 Added the RegEx library which provides an API for offload of regular
76 expressions search operations to hardware or software accelerator devices.
78 * **Updated PCAP driver.**
80 Updated PCAP driver with new features and improvements, including:
82 * Support software Tx nanosecond timestamps precision.
84 * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
86 Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
88 * Added new PMD devarg ``reclaim_mem_mode``.
89 * Added new devarg ``lacp_by_user``.
91 * **Added vDPA device APIs to query virtio queue statistics.**
93 A new 3 APIs has been added to query virtio queue statistics, to get their
94 names and to reset them by a vDPA device.
96 * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver.**
98 Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver with new features, including:
100 * Added support for virtio queue statistics.
101 * Added support for MTU update.
103 * **Updated Marvell octeontx2 ethdev PMD.**
105 Updated Marvell octeontx2 driver with cn98xx support.
107 * **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
109 Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
111 * Added support for DCF datapath configuration.
113 * **Added support for BPF_ABS/BPF_IND load instructions.**
115 Added support for two BPF non-generic instructions:
116 ``(BPF_ABS | <size> | BPF_LD)`` and ``(BPF_IND | <size> | BPF_LD)``
117 which are used to access packet data in a safe manner. Currently JIT support
118 for these instructions is implemented for x86 only.
120 * **Added flow performance test application.**
122 Added new application to test ``rte_flow`` performance, including:
124 * Measure ``rte_flow`` insertion rate.
125 * Measure ``rte_flow`` deletion rate.
126 * Dump ``rte_flow`` memory consumption.
127 * Measure packet per second forwarding.
129 * **Added --portmap command line parameter to l2fwd example.**
131 Added new command line option ``--portmap="(port, port)[,(port, port)]"`` to
132 pass forwarding port details.
133 See the :doc:`../sample_app_ug/l2_forward_real_virtual` for more
134 details of this parameter usage.
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149 * Removed ``RTE_KDRV_NONE`` based PCI device driver probing.
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158 which was announced in the previous releases and made in this release.
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167 * ``rte_page_sizes`` enumeration is replaced with ``RTE_PGSIZE_xxx`` defines.
169 * vhost: The API of ``rte_vhost_host_notifier_ctrl`` was changed to be per
170 queue and not per device, a qid parameter was added to the arguments list.
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188 * No ABI change that would break compatibility with 19.11.
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219 * Other relevant details...
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