mlx5: support flow director

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

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@@ -129,14 +129,52 @@ This section should contain new features added in this release. Sample format:
   Added support for sw-firmware sync for resource sharing.
   Use the PHY token, shared between sw-fw for PHY access on X550EM_a.
 
+* **Updated the i40e base driver.**
+
+  The i40e base driver was updated with changes including the
+  following:
+
+  * Use Rx control AQ commands to read/write Rx control registers.
+  * Add new X722 device IDs, and removed X710 one was never used.
+  * Expose registers for HASH/FD input set configuring.
+
 * **Enabled PCI extended tag for i40e.**
 
   It enabled extended tag by checking and writing corresponding PCI config
   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 mac addresses.**
+
+* **Added dump of i40e registers and EEPROM.**
+
 * **Supported ether type setting of single and double VLAN for i40e**
 
+* **Added VMDQ DCB mode in i40e.**
+
+  Added support for DCB in VMDQ mode to i40e driver.
+
+* **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.
@@ -255,6 +293,12 @@ Libraries
 Examples
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+* **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