The size of the mempool structure is reduced if the per-lcore cache is disabled.
+* **Added mempool external cache for non-EAL thread.**
+
+ Added new functions to create, free or flush a user-owned mempool
+ cache for non-EAL threads. Previously, cache was always disabled
+ on these threads.
+
* **Changed the memory allocation in mempool library.**
* Added ability to allocate a large mempool in virtually fragmented memory.
* Dropped specific Xen Dom0 code.
* Dropped specific anonymous mempool code in testpmd.
+* **Added new driver for Broadcom NetXtreme-C devices.**
+
+ Added the new bnxt driver for Broadcom NetXtreme-C devices. See the
+ "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this
+ new driver.
+
+* **Added new driver for ThunderX nicvf device.**
+
+* **Added mailbox interrupt support for ixgbe and igb VFs.**
+
+ When the physical NIC link comes down or up, the PF driver will send a
+ mailbox message to notify each VF. To handle this link up/down event,
+ add mailbox interrupts support to receive the message and allow the app to
+ register a callback for it.
+
+* **Updated the ixgbe base driver.**
+
+ The ixgbe base driver was updated with changes including the
+ following:
+
+ * Added sgmii link for X550.
+ * Added mac link setup for X550a SFP and SFP+.
+ * Added KR support for X550em_a.
+ * Added new phy definitions for M88E1500.
+ * Added support for the VLVF to be bypassed when adding/removing a VFTA entry.
+ * Added X550a flow control auto negotiation support.
+
+* **Updated the i40e base driver.**
+
+ Updated the i40e base driver, which includes support for new devices IDs.
+
* **Supported virtio on IBM POWER8.**
The ioports are mapped in memory when using Linux UIO.
+* **Virtio support for containers.**
+
+ Add a new virtual device, named virtio_user, to support virtio for containers.
+
+ Known limitations:
+
+ * Control queue and multi-queue are not supported yet.
+ * Cannot work with --huge-unlink.
+ * Cannot work with --no-huge.
+ * Cannot work when there are more than VHOST_MEMORY_MAX_NREGIONS(8) hugepages.
+ * Root privilege is a must for sorting hugepages by physical address.
+ * Can only be used with vhost user backend.
+
* **Added vhost-user client mode.**
DPDK vhost-user could be the server as well as the client. It supports
that a brand new QEMU version (v2.7 or above) is needed, otherwise, the
reconnect won't work.
+ DPDK vhost-user will also try to reconnect by default when
+
+ * the first connect fails (when QEMU is not started yet)
+ * the connection is broken (when QEMU restarts)
+
+ It can be turned off if flag ``RTE_VHOST_USER_NO_RECONNECT`` is set.
+
+* **Added NSH packet recognition in i40e.**
+
* **Added AES-CTR support to AESNI MB PMD.**
Now AESNI MB PMD supports 128/192/256-bit counter mode AES encryption and
A new Crypto PMD has been added, which provides KASUMI F8 (UEA1) ciphering
and KASUMI F9 (UIA1) hashing.
+* **Added multi-writer support for RTE Hash with Intel TSX.**
+
+ The following features/modifications have been added to rte_hash library:
+
+ * Enabled application developers to use an extra flag for rte_hash creation
+ to specify default behavior (multi-thread safe/unsafe) with rte_hash_add_key
+ function.
+ * Changed Cuckoo search algorithm to breadth first search for multi-writer
+ routine and split Cuckoo Search and Move operations in order to reduce
+ transactional code region and improve TSX performance.
+ * Added a hash multi-writer test case for test app.
+
* **Improved IP Pipeline Application.**
The following features have been added to ip_pipeline application:
* A new ``app/pdump`` tool is added to capture packets in DPDK.
+* **Added floating VEB support for i40e PF driver.**
+
+ A "floating VEB" is a special Virtual Ethernet Bridge (VEB) which does not
+ have an upload port, but instead is used for switching traffic between
+ virtual functions (VFs) on a port.
+
+ For information on this feature, please see the "I40E Poll Mode Driver"
+ section of the "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document.
+
+
Resolved Issues
---------------
EAL
~~~
+* **igb_uio: Fixed possible mmap failure for Linux >= 4.5.**
+
+ mmaping the iomem range of the PCI device fails for kernels that
+ enabled CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM option:
+
+ EAL: pci_map_resource():
+ cannot mmap(39, 0x7f1c51800000, 0x100000, 0x0):
+ Invalid argument (0xffffffffffffffff)
+
+ CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM is introduced in Linux v4.5
+
+ Updated igb_uio to stop reserving PCI memory resources, from
+ kernel point of view iomem region looks like idle and mmap worked
+ again. This matches uio_pci_generic usage.
+
Drivers
~~~~~~~
info to descriptor.
Now this issue is fixed by disabling vlan stripping from inner header.
+* **i40e: Fixed the type issue of a single VLAN type.**
+
+ Currently, if a single VLAN header is added in a packet, it's treated
+ as inner VLAN. But generally, a single VLAN header is treated as the
+ outer VLAN header.
+ This issue is fixed by changing corresponding register for single VLAN.
+
Libraries
~~~~~~~~~
as the parameter have been changed due to the ABI refactoring mentioned
below: it's replaced by ``int vid``.
+* The function ``rte_vhost_enqueue_burst`` no longer supports concurrent enqueuing
+ packets to the same queue.
+
+* The function ``rte_eth_dev_set_mtu`` adds a new return value ``-EBUSY``, which
+ indicates the operation is forbidden because the port is running.
+
ABI Changes
-----------
librte_mbuf.so.2
+ librte_mempool.so.2
librte_meter.so.1
+ librte_pdump.so.1
librte_pipeline.so.3
librte_pmd_bond.so.1
librte_pmd_ring.so.2
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