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34 * Packet Distributor library for dynamic, single-packet at a time, load balancing
36 * IP fragmentation and reassembly library
38 * Support for IPv6 in IP fragmentation and reassembly sample applications
40 * Support for VFIO for mapping BARs and setting up interrupts
42 * Link Bonding PMD Library supporting round-robin, active backup, balance(layer 2, layer 2+3, and layer 3+4) and broadcast bonding modes
44 * Support zero copy mode RX/TX in user space vhost sample
46 * Support multiple queues in virtio-net PMD
48 * Support for Intel 40GbE Controllers:
50 * Intel® XL710 40 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
52 * Intel® X710 40 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
54 * Support NIC filters in addition to flow director for Intel� 1GbE and 10GbE Controllers
56 * Virtualization (KVM)
58 * Userspace vhost switch:
60 New sample application to support userspace virtio back-end in host and packet switching between guests.
62 * Virtualization (Xen)
64 * Support for DPDK application running on Xen Domain0 without hugepages.
68 Support front-end Poll Mode Driver in guest domain
70 Support userspace packet switching back-end example in host domain
72 * FreeBSD* 9.2 support for librte_pmd_e1000, librte_pmd_ixgbe and Virtual Function variants.
73 Please refer to the *DPDK for FreeBSD\* Getting Started Guide*.
74 Application support has been added for the following:
76 * multiprocess/symmetric_mp
78 * multiprocess/simple_mp
84 * Support for sharing data over QEMU IVSHMEM
86 * Support for Intel® Communications Chipset 8925 to 8955 Series in the DPDK-QAT Sample Application
88 * New VMXNET3 driver for the paravirtual device presented to a VM by the VMware* ESXi Hypervisor.
90 * BETA: example support for basic Netmap applications on DPDK
92 * Support for the wireless KASUMI algorithm in the dpdk_qat sample application
94 * Hierarchical scheduler implementing 5-level scheduling hierarchy (port, sub-port, pipe, traffic class, queue)
95 with 64K leaf nodes (packet queues).
97 * Packet dropper based on Random Early Detection (RED) congestion control mechanism.
99 * Traffic Metering based on Single Rate Three Color Marker (srTCM) and Two Rate Three Color Marker (trTCM).
101 * An API for configuring RSS redirection table on the fly
103 * An API to support KNI in a multi-process environment
105 * IPv6 LPM forwarding
107 * Power management library and sample application using CPU frequency scaling
109 * IPv4 reassembly sample application
111 * Quota & Watermarks sample application
113 * PCIe Multi-BAR Mapping Support
115 * Support for Physical Functions in Poll Mode Driver for the following devices:
117 * Intel® 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
119 * Intel® i350 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
121 * Intel® 82599 10-Gigabit Ethernet Controller
123 * Intel® XL710/X710 40-Gigabit Ethernet Controller
125 * Quality of Service (QoS) Hierarchical Scheduler: Sub-port Traffic Class Oversubscription
127 * Multi-thread Kernel NIC Interface (KNI) for performance improvement
129 * Virtualization (KVM)
131 * Para-virtualization
133 Support virtio front-end poll mode driver in guest virtual machine
134 Support vHost raw socket interface as virtio back-end via KNI
136 * SR-IOV Switching for the 10G Ethernet Controller
138 Support Physical Function to start/stop Virtual Function Traffic
140 Support Traffic Mirroring (Pool, VLAN, Uplink and Downlink)
142 Support VF multiple MAC addresses (Exact/Hash match), VLAN filtering
144 Support VF receive mode configuration
146 * Support VMDq for 1 GbE and 10 GbE NICs
148 * Extension for the Quality of Service (QoS) sample application to allow statistics polling
150 * New libpcap -based poll-mode driver, including support for reading from 3rd Party NICs
151 using Linux kernel drivers
153 * New multi-process example using fork() to demonstrate application resiliency and recovery,
154 including reattachment to and re-initialization of shared data structures where necessary
156 * New example (vmdq) to demonstrate VLAN-based packet filtering
158 * Improved scalability for scheduling large numbers of timers using the rte_timer library
160 * Support for building the DPDK as a shared library
162 * Support for Intel® Ethernet Server Bypass Adapter X520-SR2
164 * Poll Mode Driver support for the Intel® Ethernet Connection I354 on the Intel® Atom™
165 Processor C2000 Product Family SoCs
167 * IPv6 exact match flow classification in the l3fwd sample application
169 * Support for multiple instances of the Intel® DPDK
171 * Support for Intel® 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller - Intel® Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter
172 (previously code named “Hartwell”)
174 * Support for Intel® Ethernet Controller I210 (previously code named “Springville”)
176 * Early access support for the Quad-port Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-4 and X520-DA2
177 (code named “Spring Fountain”)
179 * Support for Intel® X710/XL710 40 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (code named “Fortville”)
183 * rte_mempool: allocator for fixed-sized objects
185 * rte_ring: single- or multi- consumer/producer queue implementation
187 * rte_timer: implementation of timers
189 * rte_malloc: malloc-like allocator
191 * rte_mbuf: network packet buffers, including fragmented buffers
193 * rte_hash: support for exact-match flow classification in software
195 * rte_lpm: support for longest prefix match in software for IPv4 and IPv6
197 * rte_sched: support for QoS scheduling
199 * rte_meter: support for QoS traffic metering
201 * rte_power: support for power management
203 * rte_ip_frag: support for IP fragmentation and reassembly
205 * Poll Mode Driver - Common (rte_ether)
209 * Support for Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
213 * Buffer chaining; Jumbo frames
215 * TX checksum calculation
217 * Configuration of promiscuous mode, and multicast packet receive filtering
219 * L2 Mac address filtering
221 * Statistics recording
223 * IGB Poll Mode Driver - 1 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_e1000)
225 * Support for Intel® 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (previously code named “Kawela”)
227 * Support for Intel® 82580 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (previously code named “Barton Hills”)
229 * Support for Intel® I350 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (previously code named “Powerville”)
231 * Support for Intel® 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller - Intel® Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter
232 (previously code named “Hartwell”)
234 * Support for Intel® Ethernet Controller I210 (previously code named “Springville”)
236 * Support for L2 Ethertype filters, SYN filters, 2-tuple filters and Flex filters for 82580 and i350
238 * Support for L2 Ethertype filters, SYN filters and L3/L4 5-tuple filters for 82576
240 * Poll Mode Driver - 10 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_ixgbe)
242 * Support for Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (previously code named “Niantic”)
244 * Support for Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-T2 (previously code named “Iron Pond”)
246 * Support for Intel® Ethernet Controller X540-T2 (previously code named “Twin Pond”)
248 * Support for Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) and Data Center Bridging (DCB) to divide
249 incoming traffic into 128 RX queues. DCB is also supported for transmitting packets.
251 * Support for auto negotiation down to 1 Gb
253 * Support for Flow Director
255 * Support for L2 Ethertype filters, SYN filters and L3/L4 5-tuple filters for 82599EB
257 * Poll Mode Driver - 40 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_i40e)
259 * Support for Intel® XL710 40 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
261 * Support for Intel® X710 40 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
263 * Environment Abstraction Layer (librte_eal)
265 * Multi-process support
267 * Multi-thread support
269 * 1 GB and 2 MB page support
271 * Atomic integer operations
273 * Querying CPU support of specific features
275 * High Precision Event Timer support (HPET)
277 * PCI device enumeration and blacklisting
279 * Spin locks and R/W locks
281 * Test PMD application
283 * Support for PMD driver testing
287 * Support for core component tests
289 * Sample applications
293 * Exception Path (into Linux* for packets using the Linux TUN/TAP driver)
297 * Integration with Intel® Quick Assist Technology drivers 1.0.0, 1.0.1 and 1.1.0 on Intel®
298 Communications Chipset 89xx Series C0 and C1 silicon.
300 * Link Status Interrupt (Ethernet* Link Status Detection
308 * L2 Forwarding (supports virtualized and non-virtualized environments)
310 * L3 Forwarding (IPv4 and IPv6)
312 * L3 Forwarding in a Virtualized Environment
314 * L3 Forwarding with Power Management
318 * QoS Metering + Dropper
328 * VMDQ and DCB L2 Forwarding
330 * Kernel NIC Interface (with ethtool support)
332 * Userspace vhost switch
334 * Interactive command line interface (rte_cmdline)
336 * Updated 10 GbE Poll Mode Driver (PMD) to the latest BSD code base providing support of newer
337 ixgbe 10 GbE devices such as the Intel® X520-T2 server Ethernet adapter
339 * An API for configuring Ethernet flow control
341 * Support for interrupt-based Ethernet link status change detection
343 * Support for SR-IOV functions on the Intel® 82599, Intel® 82576 and Intel® i350 Ethernet
344 Controllers in a virtualized environment
346 * Improvements to SR-IOV switch configurability on the Intel® 82599 Ethernet Controllers in
347 a virtualized environment.
349 * An API for L2 Ethernet Address “whitelist” filtering
351 * An API for resetting statistics counters
353 * Support for RX L4 (UDP/TCP/SCTP) checksum validation by NIC
355 * Support for TX L3 (IPv4/IPv6) and L4 (UDP/TCP/SCTP) checksum calculation offloading
357 * Support for IPv4 packet fragmentation and reassembly
359 * Support for zero-copy Multicast
361 * New APIs to allow the “blacklisting” of specific NIC ports.
363 * Header files for common protocols (IP, SCTP, TCP, UDP)
365 * Improved multi-process application support, allowing multiple co-operating DPDK
366 processes to access the NIC port queues directly.
368 * CPU-specific compiler optimization
370 * Improvements to the Load Balancing sample application
372 * The addition of a PAUSE instruction to tight loops for energy-usage and performance improvements
374 * Updated 10 GbE Transmit architecture incorporating new upstream PCIe* optimizations.
378 * Support in Flow Director Signature Filters and masks
380 * RSS support in sample application that use RSS
382 * Exact match flow classification in the L3 Forwarding sample application
384 * Support in LPM for IPv6 addresses
386 * Tunneling packet support:
388 * Provide the APIs for VXLAN destination UDP port and VXLAN packet filter configuration
389 and support VXLAN TX checksum offload on Intel® 40GbE Controllers.