New Features
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+* Poll-mode driver support for an early release of the PCIE host interface of the Intel(R) Ethernet Switch FM10000.
+
+ * Basic Rx/Tx functions for PF/VF
+
+ * Interrupt handling support for PF/VF
+
+ * Per queue start/stop functions for PF/VF
+
+ * Support Mailbox handling between PF/VF and PF/Switch Manager
+
+ * Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for PF/VF
+
+ * Scatter receive function for PF/VF
+
+ * Reta update/query for PF/VF
+
+ * VLAN filter set for PF
+
+ * Link status query for PF/VF
+
+.. note:: The software is intended to run on pre-release hardware and may contain unknown or unresolved defects or
+ issues related to functionality and performance.
+ The poll mode driver is also pre-release and will be updated to a released version post hardware and base driver release.
+ Should the official hardware release be made between DPDK releases an updated poll-mode driver will be made available.
+
* Link Bonding
- * Support for 802.3ad link aggregation (mode 4) and transmit load balancing (mode 5) to the link bonding library.
+ * Support for adaptive load balancing (mode 6) to the link bonding library.
* Support for registration of link status change callbacks with link bonding devices.
* Support for slaves devices which do not support link status change interrupts in the link bonding library via a link status polling mechanism.
+* PCI Hotplug with NULL PMD sample application
+
+* ABI versioning
+
+* x32 ABI
+
+* Non-EAL Thread Support
+
+* Multi-pthread Support
+
+* Re-order Library
+
+* ACL for AVX2
+
+* Architecture Independent CRC Hash
+
+* uio_pci_generic Support
+
+* KNI Optimizations
+
+* Vhost-user support
+
+* Virtio (link, vlan, mac, port IO, perf)
+
+* IXGBE-VF RSS
+
+* RX/TX Callbacks
+
+* Unified Flow Types
+
+* Indirect Attached MBUF Flag
+
+* Use default port configuration in TestPMD
+
+* Tunnel offloading in TestPMD
+
* Poll Mode Driver - 40 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_i40e)
* Support for Flow Director
* Packet Distributor Sample Application
+* Job Stats library and Sample Application.
+
For further features supported in this release, see Chapter 3 Supported Features.