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34 * Virtualization (KVM)
36 * Userspace vhost switch:
38 New sample application to support userspace virtio back-end in host and packet switching between guests.
40 * Virtualization (Xen)
42 * Support for DPDK application running on Xen Domain0 without hugepages.
46 Support front-end Poll Mode Driver in guest domain
48 Support userspace packet switching back-end example in host domain
50 * FreeBSD* 9.2 support for librte_pmd_e1000, librte_pmd_ixgbe and Virtual Function variants.
51 Please refer to the *DPDK for FreeBSD\* Getting Started Guide*.
52 Application support has been added for the following:
54 * multiprocess/symmetric_mp
56 * multiprocess/simple_mp
62 * Support for sharing data over QEMU IVSHMEM
64 * Support for Intel® Communications Chipset 8925 to 8955 Series in the DPDK-QAT Sample Application
66 * New VMXNET3 driver for the paravirtual device presented to a VM by the VMware* ESXi Hypervisor.
68 * BETA: example support for basic Netmap applications on DPDK
70 * Support for the wireless KASUMI algorithm in the dpdk_qat sample application
72 * Hierarchical scheduler implementing 5-level scheduling hierarchy (port, sub-port, pipe, traffic class, queue)
73 with 64K leaf nodes (packet queues).
75 * Packet dropper based on Random Early Detection (RED) congestion control mechanism.
77 * Traffic Metering based on Single Rate Three Color Marker (srTCM) and Two Rate Three Color Marker (trTCM).
79 * An API for configuring RSS redirection table on the fly
81 * An API to support KNI in a multi-process environment
85 * Power management library and sample application using CPU frequency scaling
87 * IPv4 reassembly sample application
89 * Quota & Watermarks sample application
91 * PCIe Multi-BAR Mapping Support
93 * Support for Physical Functions in Poll Mode Driver for the following devices:
95 * Intel® 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
97 * Intel® i350 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
99 * Intel® 82599 10-Gigabit Ethernet Controller
101 * Intel® XL710/X710 40-Gigabit Ethernet Controller
103 * Quality of Service (QoS) Hierarchical Scheduler: Sub-port Traffic Class Oversubscription
105 * Multi-thread Kernel NIC Interface (KNI) for performance improvement
107 * Virtualization (KVM)
109 * Para-virtualization
111 Support virtio front-end poll mode driver in guest virtual machine
112 Support vHost raw socket interface as virtio back-end via KNI
114 * SR-IOV Switching for the 10G Ethernet Controller
116 Support Physical Function to start/stop Virtual Function Traffic
118 Support Traffic Mirroring (Pool, VLAN, Uplink and Downlink)
120 Support VF multiple MAC addresses (Exact/Hash match), VLAN filtering
122 Support VF receive mode configuration
124 * Support VMDq for 1 GbE and 10 GbE NICs
126 * Extension for the Quality of Service (QoS) sample application to allow statistics polling
128 * New libpcap -based poll-mode driver, including support for reading from 3rd Party NICs
129 using Linux kernel drivers
131 * New multi-process example using fork() to demonstrate application resiliency and recovery,
132 including reattachment to and re-initialization of shared data structures where necessary
134 * New example (vmdq) to demonstrate VLAN-based packet filtering
136 * Improved scalability for scheduling large numbers of timers using the rte_timer library
138 * Support for building the DPDK as a shared library
140 * Support for Intel® Ethernet Server Bypass Adapter X520-SR2
142 * Poll Mode Driver support for the Intel® Ethernet Connection I354 on the Intel® Atom™
143 Processor C2000 Product Family SoCs
145 * IPv6 exact match flow classification in the l3fwd sample application
147 * Support for multiple instances of the Intel® DPDK
149 * Support for Intel® 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller - Intel® Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter
150 (previously code named “Hartwell”)
152 * Support for Intel® Ethernet Controller I210 (previously code named “Springville”)
154 * Early access support for the Quad-port Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-4 and X520-DA2
155 (code named “Spring Fountain”)
157 * Support for Intel® X710/XL710 40 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (code named “Fortville”)
161 * rte_mempool: allocator for fixed-sized objects
163 * rte_ring: single- or multi- consumer/producer queue implementation
165 * rte_timer: implementation of timers
167 * rte_malloc: malloc-like allocator
169 * rte_mbuf: network packet buffers, including fragmented buffers
171 * rte_hash: support for exact-match flow classification in software
173 * rte_lpm: support for longest prefix match in software for IPv4 and IPv6
175 * rte_sched: support for QoS scheduling
177 * rte_meter: support for QoS traffic metering
179 * rte_power: support for power management
181 * rte_ip_frag: support for IP fragmentation and reassembly
183 * Poll Mode Driver - Common (rte_ether)
187 * Support for Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
191 * Buffer chaining; Jumbo frames
193 * TX checksum calculation
195 * Configuration of promiscuous mode, and multicast packet receive filtering
197 * L2 Mac address filtering
199 * Statistics recording
201 * IGB Poll Mode Driver - 1 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_e1000)
203 * Support for Intel® 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (previously code named “Kawela”)
205 * Support for Intel® 82580 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (previously code named “Barton Hills”)
207 * Support for Intel® I350 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (previously code named “Powerville”)
209 * Support for Intel® 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller - Intel® Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter
210 (previously code named “Hartwell”)
212 * Support for Intel® Ethernet Controller I210 (previously code named “Springville”)
214 * Support for L2 Ethertype filters, SYN filters, 2-tuple filters and Flex filters for 82580 and i350
216 * Support for L2 Ethertype filters, SYN filters and L3/L4 5-tuple filters for 82576
218 * Poll Mode Driver - 10 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_ixgbe)
220 * Support for Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (previously code named “Niantic”)
222 * Support for Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-T2 (previously code named “Iron Pond”)
224 * Support for Intel® Ethernet Controller X540-T2 (previously code named “Twin Pond”)
226 * Support for Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) and Data Center Bridging (DCB) to divide
227 incoming traffic into 128 RX queues. DCB is also supported for transmitting packets.
229 * Support for auto negotiation down to 1 Gb
231 * Support for Flow Director
233 * Support for L2 Ethertype filters, SYN filters and L3/L4 5-tuple filters for 82599EB
235 * Poll Mode Driver - 40 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_i40e)
237 * Support for Intel® XL710 40 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
239 * Support for Intel® X710 40 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
241 * Environment Abstraction Layer (librte_eal)
243 * Multi-process support
245 * Multi-thread support
247 * 1 GB and 2 MB page support
249 * Atomic integer operations
251 * Querying CPU support of specific features
253 * High Precision Event Timer support (HPET)
255 * PCI device enumeration and blacklisting
257 * Spin locks and R/W locks
259 * Test PMD application
261 * Support for PMD driver testing
265 * Support for core component tests
267 * Sample applications
271 * Exception Path (into Linux* for packets using the Linux TUN/TAP driver)
275 * Integration with Intel® Quick Assist Technology drivers 1.0.0, 1.0.1 and 1.1.0 on Intel®
276 Communications Chipset 89xx Series C0 and C1 silicon.
278 * Link Status Interrupt (Ethernet* Link Status Detection
286 * L2 Forwarding (supports virtualized and non-virtualized environments)
288 * L3 Forwarding (IPv4 and IPv6)
290 * L3 Forwarding in a Virtualized Environment
292 * L3 Forwarding with Power Management
296 * QoS Metering + Dropper
306 * VMDQ and DCB L2 Forwarding
308 * Kernel NIC Interface (with ethtool support)
310 * Userspace vhost switch
312 * Interactive command line interface (rte_cmdline)
314 * Updated 10 GbE Poll Mode Driver (PMD) to the latest BSD code base providing support of newer
315 ixgbe 10 GbE devices such as the Intel® X520-T2 server Ethernet adapter
317 * An API for configuring Ethernet flow control
319 * Support for interrupt-based Ethernet link status change detection
321 * Support for SR-IOV functions on the Intel® 82599, Intel® 82576 and Intel® i350 Ethernet
322 Controllers in a virtualized environment
324 * Improvements to SR-IOV switch configurability on the Intel® 82599 Ethernet Controllers in
325 a virtualized environment.
327 * An API for L2 Ethernet Address “whitelist” filtering
329 * An API for resetting statistics counters
331 * Support for RX L4 (UDP/TCP/SCTP) checksum validation by NIC
333 * Support for TX L3 (IPv4/IPv6) and L4 (UDP/TCP/SCTP) checksum calculation offloading
335 * Support for IPv4 packet fragmentation and reassembly
337 * Support for zero-copy Multicast
339 * New APIs to allow the “blacklisting” of specific NIC ports.
341 * Header files for common protocols (IP, SCTP, TCP, UDP)
343 * Improved multi-process application support, allowing multiple co-operating DPDK
344 processes to access the NIC port queues directly.
346 * CPU-specific compiler optimization
348 * Improvements to the Load Balancing sample application
350 * The addition of a PAUSE instruction to tight loops for energy-usage and performance improvements
352 * Updated 10 GbE Transmit architecture incorporating new upstream PCIe* optimizations.
356 * Support in Flow Director Signature Filters and masks
358 * RSS support in sample application that use RSS
360 * Exact match flow classification in the L3 Forwarding sample application
362 * Support in LPM for IPv6 addresses