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27 .. This section should contain new features added in this release.
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40 * Enhanced feature bar to do something else.
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45 * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
46 * Device abstraction libs and PMDs (ordered alphabetically by vendor name)
48 - cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
49 - eventdev (lib, PMDs)
52 * Apps, Examples, Tools (if significant)
54 This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it.
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58 * **Enabled new devargs parser.**
60 * Enabled devargs syntax
61 ``bus=X,paramX=x/class=Y,paramY=y/driver=Z,paramZ=z``
62 * Added bus-level parsing of the devargs syntax.
63 * Kept compatibility with the legacy syntax as parsing fallback.
65 * **Updated EAL hugetlbfs mount handling for Linux.**
67 * Modified to allow ``--huge-dir`` option to specify a sub-directory
68 within a hugetlbfs mountpoint.
70 * **Added dmadev library.**
72 * Added a DMA device framework for management and provision of
73 hardware and software DMA devices.
74 * Added generic API which support a number of different DMA
76 * Added multi-process support.
78 * **Added new RSS offload types for IPv4/L4 checksum in RSS flow.**
80 Added macros ETH_RSS_IPV4_CHKSUM and ETH_RSS_L4_CHKSUM, now IPv4 and
81 TCP/UDP/SCTP header checksum field can be used as input set for RSS.
83 * **Updated af_packet ethdev driver.**
85 * Default VLAN strip behavior was changed. VLAN tag won't be stripped
86 unless ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_VLAN_STRIP`` offload is enabled.
88 * **Updated Broadcom bnxt PMD.**
90 * Added flow offload support for Thor.
91 * Implement support for tunnel offload.
92 * Updated HWRM API to version 1.10.2.44
94 * **Updated Intel iavf driver.**
96 * Added Intel iavf support on Windows.
97 * Added IPv4 and L4 (TCP/UDP/SCTP) checksum hash support in RSS flow.
99 * **Updated Intel ice driver.**
101 * Added 1PPS out support by a devargs.
102 * Added IPv4 and L4 (TCP/UDP/SCTP) checksum hash support in RSS flow.
103 * Added DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_TIMESTAMP support.
104 * Added timesync API support under scalar path.
106 * **Updated Intel ixgbe driver.**
108 * Added Intel ixgbe support on Windows.
110 * **Updated Marvell cnxk ethdev driver.**
112 * Added rte_flow support for dual VLAN insert and strip actions.
113 * Added rte_tm support.
114 * Added support for Inline IPsec for CN9K event mode and CN10K
115 poll mode and event mode.
117 * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
119 Updated the Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
121 * Added implicit mempool registration to avoid data path hiccups (opt-out).
123 * **Updated Marvell cnxk crypto PMD.**
125 * Added AES-CBC SHA1-HMAC support in lookaside protocol (IPsec) for CN10K.
126 * Added Transport mode support in lookaside protocol (IPsec) for CN10K.
127 * Added UDP encapsulation support in lookaside protocol (IPsec) for CN10K.
128 * Added support for lookaside protocol (IPsec) offload for CN9K.
129 * Added support for ZUC algorithm with 256-bit key length for CN10K.
130 * Added support for CN98xx dual block.
131 * Added inner checksum support in lookaside protocol (IPsec) for CN10K.
133 * **Added support for event crypto adapter on Marvell CN10K and CN9K.**
135 * Added event crypto adapter OP_FORWARD mode support.
137 * **Updated NXP dpaa_sec crypto PMD.**
139 * Added DES-CBC, AES-XCBC-MAC, AES-CMAC and non-HMAC algo support.
140 * Added PDCP short MAC-I support.
142 * **Updated NXP dpaa2_sec crypto PMD.**
144 * Added PDCP short MAC-I support.
146 * **Updated the ACC100 bbdev PMD.**
148 Added support for more comprehensive CRC options.
150 * **Updated the turbo_sw bbdev PMD.**
152 Added support for more comprehensive CRC options.
154 * **Added multi-process support for testpmd.**
156 Added command-line options to specify total number of processes and
157 current process ID. Each process owns subset of Rx and Tx queues.
159 * **Updated test-crypto-perf application with new cases.**
161 * Added support for asymmetric crypto throughput performance measurement.
162 Only modex is supported for now.
164 * **Added lookaside protocol (IPsec) tests in dpdk-test.**
166 * Added known vector tests (AES-GCM 128, 192, 256).
167 * Added tests to verify error reporting with ICV corruption.
168 * Added tests to verify IV generation.
169 * Added tests to verify UDP encapsulation.
170 * Added tests to verify UDP encapsulation ports.
171 * Added tests to validate packets soft expiry.
172 * Added tests to validate packets hard expiry.
173 * Added tests to verify tunnel header verification in IPsec inbound.
174 * Added tests to verify inner checksum.
180 .. This section should contain removed items in this release. Sample format:
182 * Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the removed item
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187 =======================================================
189 * eal: Removed the deprecated function ``rte_get_master_lcore()``
190 and the iterator macro ``RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE``.
192 * eal: The old api arguments that were deprecated for
193 blacklist/whitelist are removed. Users must use the new
194 block/allow list arguments.
196 * mbuf: Removed offload flag ``PKT_RX_EIP_CKSUM_BAD``.
197 ``PKT_RX_OUTER_IP_CKSUM_BAD`` should be used as a replacement.
199 * ethdev: Removed the port mirroring API. A more fine-grain flow API
200 action ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SAMPLE`` should be used instead.
201 The structures ``rte_eth_mirror_conf`` and ``rte_eth_vlan_mirror`` and
202 the functions ``rte_eth_mirror_rule_set`` and
203 ``rte_eth_mirror_rule_reset`` along with the associated macros
204 ``ETH_MIRROR_*`` are removed.
206 * i40e: Removed i40evf driver.
207 iavf already became the default VF driver for i40e devices,
208 so there is no need to maintain i40evf.
214 .. This section should contain API changes. Sample format:
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217 which was announced in the previous releases and made in this release.
218 Start with a scope label like "ethdev:".
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226 * kvargs: The experimental function ``rte_kvargs_strcmp()`` has been
227 removed. Its usages have been replaced by a new function
228 ``rte_kvargs_get_with_value()``.
230 * mempool: Added ``RTE_MEMPOOL_F_NON_IO`` flag to give a hint to DPDK components
231 that objects from this pool will not be used for device IO (e.g. DMA).
233 * mempool: The mempool flags ``MEMPOOL_F_*`` will be deprecated in the future.
234 Newly added flags with ``RTE_MEMPOOL_F_`` prefix should be used instead.
236 * net: Renamed ``s_addr`` and ``d_addr`` fields of ``rte_ether_hdr`` structure
237 to ``src_addr`` and ``dst_addr``, respectively.
239 * cryptodev: The API rte_cryptodev_pmd_is_valid_dev is modified to
240 rte_cryptodev_is_valid_dev as it can be used by the application as
241 well as PMD to check whether the device is valid or not.
243 * cryptodev: The rte_cryptodev_pmd.* files are renamed as cryptodev_pmd.*
244 as it is for drivers only and should be private to DPDK, and not
245 installed for app use.
247 * cryptodev: A ``reserved`` byte from structure ``rte_crypto_op`` was
248 renamed to ``aux_flags`` to indicate warnings and other information from
249 the crypto/security operation. This field will be used to communicate
250 events such as soft expiry with IPsec in lookaside mode.
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259 which was announced in the previous releases and made in this release.
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268 * security: ``rte_security_set_pkt_metadata`` and ``rte_security_get_userdata``
269 routines used by inline outbound and inline inbound security processing were
270 made inline and enhanced to do simple 64-bit set/get for PMDs that do not
271 have much processing in PMD specific callbacks but just 64-bit set/get.
272 This avoids a per packet function pointer jump overhead for such PMDs.
274 * security: A new option ``iv_gen_disable`` was added in structure
275 ``rte_security_ipsec_sa_options`` to disable IV generation inside PMD,
276 so that application can provide its own IV and test known test vectors.
278 * security: A new option ``tunnel_hdr_verify`` was added in structure
279 ``rte_security_ipsec_sa_options`` to indicate whether outer header
280 verification need to be done as part of inbound IPsec processing.
282 * security: A new option ``udp_ports_verify`` was added in structure
283 ``rte_security_ipsec_sa_options`` to indicate whether UDP ports
284 verification need to be done as part of inbound IPsec processing.
286 * security: A new structure ``rte_security_ipsec_lifetime`` was added to
287 replace ``esn_soft_limit`` in IPsec configuration structure
288 ``rte_security_ipsec_xform`` to allow applications to configure SA soft
289 and hard expiry limits. Limits can be either in number of packets or bytes.
291 * security: The new options ``ip_csum_enable`` and ``l4_csum_enable`` were added
292 in structure ``rte_security_ipsec_sa_options`` to indicate whether inner
293 packet IPv4 header checksum and L4 checksum need to be offloaded to
296 * bbdev: Added capability related to more comprehensive CRC options,
297 shifting values of the ``enum rte_bbdev_op_ldpcdec_flag_bitmasks``.
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318 .. This section should contain a list of platforms that were tested
323 * <vendor> platform with <vendor> <type of devices> combinations
328 * Other relevant details...
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