mlx5: support flow director

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_16_04.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
index b598756..6fce4a7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ This section should contain new features added in this release. Sample format:
   space bytes, to boost the performance. In the meanwhile, it deprecated the
   legacy way via reading/writing sysfile supported by kernel module igb_uio.
 
-* **Added i40e support for setting VF mac addresses.**
+* **Added i40e support for setting mac addresses.**
 
 * **Added dump of i40e registers and EEPROM.**
 
@@ -156,6 +156,25 @@ This section should contain new features added in this release. Sample format:
 
 * **Added i40e VEB switching support.**
 
+* **Added fm10k Rx interrupt support.**
+
+* **Optimized fm10k Tx.**
+
+  * Free multiple mbufs at a time to reduce freeing mbuf cycles.
+
+* **Handled error flags in fm10k vector Rx.**
+
+  Parse err flags in Rx desc and set error bits in mbuf with vector instructions.
+
+* **Added fm10k FTAG based forwarding support.**
+
+* **Added mlx5 flow director support.**
+
+  Added flow director support (RTE_FDIR_MODE_PERFECT and
+  RTE_FDIR_MODE_PERFECT_MAC_VLAN).
+
+  Only available with Mellanox OFED >= 3.2.
+
 * **Increased number of next hops for LPM IPv4 to 2^24.**
 
   The next_hop field is extended from 8 bits to 24 bits for IPv4.
@@ -274,6 +293,12 @@ Libraries
 Examples
 ~~~~~~~~
 
+* **l3fwd-power: Fixed memory leak for non-IP packet.**
+
+  Fixed issue in l3fwd-power where, on receiving packets of types
+  other than IPv4 or IPv6, the mbuf was not released, and caused
+  a memory leak.
+
 * **examples/vhost: Fixed frequent mbuf allocation failure.**
 
   vhost-switch often fails to allocate mbuf when dequeue from vring because it