ethdev: deprecate port count function

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_18_05.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
index 34cbd86..2d6f9d8 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
@@ -69,6 +69,20 @@ New Features
   See the :doc:`../nics/axgbe` nic driver guide for more details on this
   new driver.
 
   See the :doc:`../nics/axgbe` nic driver guide for more details on this
   new driver.
 

+* **Updated szedata2 PMD.**
+
+  Added support for new NFB-200G2QL card.
+
+* **Added support for Broadcom NetXtreme-S (BCM58800) family of controllers (aka Stingray)**
+
+  The BCM58800 devices feature a NetXtreme E-Series advanced network controller, a high-performance
+  ARM CPU block, PCI Express (PCIe) Gen3 interfaces, key accelerators for compute offload and a high-
+  speed memory subsystem including L3 cache and DDR4 interfaces, all interconnected by a coherent
+  Network-on-chip (NOC) fabric.
+
+  The ARM CPU subsystem features eight ARMv8 Cortex-A72 CPUs at 3.0 GHz, arranged in a multi-cluster
+  configuration.
+

 * **Added support for virtio-user server mode.**
   In a container environment if the vhost-user backend restarts, there's no way
   for it to reconnect to virtio-user. To address this, support for server mode
 * **Added support for virtio-user server mode.**
   In a container environment if the vhost-user backend restarts, there's no way
   for it to reconnect to virtio-user. To address this, support for server mode


@@ -82,6 +96,13 @@ New Features
   including session creation/deletion handling and translating virtio-crypto
   request into DPDK crypto operations. A sample application is also introduced.
 
   including session creation/deletion handling and translating virtio-crypto
   request into DPDK crypto operations. A sample application is also introduced.
 

+* **Added the Event Timer Adapter Library.**
+
+  The Event Timer Adapter Library extends the event-based model by introducing
+  APIs that allow applications to arm/cancel event timers that generate
+  timer expiry events. This new type of event is scheduled by an event device
+  along with existing types of events.
+

 * **Added device event monitor framework.**
 
   Added a general device event monitor framework at EAL, for device dynamic management.
 * **Added device event monitor framework.**
 
   Added a general device event monitor framework at EAL, for device dynamic management.


@@ -132,6 +153,13 @@ API Changes
   memory footprint which helps in better cache utilization when large number
   of meter objects are used.
 
   memory footprint which helps in better cache utilization when large number
   of meter objects are used.
 

+* ethdev: The function ``rte_eth_dev_count``, often mis-used to iterate
+  over ports, is deprecated and replaced by ``rte_eth_dev_count_avail``.
+  There is also a new function ``rte_eth_dev_count_total`` to get the
+  total number of allocated ports, available or not.
+  The hotplug-proof applications should use ``RTE_ETH_FOREACH_DEV`` or
+  ``RTE_ETH_FOREACH_DEV_OWNED_BY`` as port iterators.
+

 * ethdev, in struct ``struct rte_eth_dev_info``, field ``rte_pci_device *pci_dev``
   replaced with field ``struct rte_device *device``.
 
 * ethdev, in struct ``struct rte_eth_dev_info``, field ``rte_pci_device *pci_dev``
   replaced with field ``struct rte_device *device``.
 


@@ -173,6 +201,12 @@ ABI Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 

+* ring: the alignment constraints on the ring structure has been relaxed
+  to one cache line instead of two, and an empty cache line padding is
+  added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of the
+  structure and the offset of the fields remains the same on platforms
+  with 64B cache line, but change on other platforms.
+

 * **Additional fields in rte_eth_dev_info.**
 
   The ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure has had two extra entries appended to the
 * **Additional fields in rte_eth_dev_info.**
 
   The ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure has had two extra entries appended to the


@@ -181,6 +215,7 @@ ABI Changes
   type ``uint16_t``: ``burst_size``, ``ring_size``, and ``nb_queues``. These
   are parameter values recommended for use by the PMD.
 
   type ``uint16_t``: ``burst_size``, ``ring_size``, and ``nb_queues``. These
   are parameter values recommended for use by the PMD.
 

+

 Removed Items
 -------------
 
 Removed Items
 -------------
 


@@ -271,7 +306,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_power.so.1
      librte_rawdev.so.1
      librte_reorder.so.1
      librte_power.so.1
      librte_rawdev.so.1
      librte_reorder.so.1

-     librte_ring.so.1
+   + librte_ring.so.2

      librte_sched.so.1
      librte_security.so.1
      librte_table.so.3
      librte_sched.so.1
      librte_security.so.1
      librte_table.so.3