mbuf: add new Rx checksum flags

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_16_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst
index cfa3748..ada852c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst
@@ -36,6 +36,35 @@ New Features
 
      This section is a comment. Make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
 
+
+* **Added software parser for packet type.**
+
+  * Added a new function ``rte_pktmbuf_read()`` to read the packet data from an
+    mbuf chain, linearizing if required.
+  * Added a new function ``rte_net_get_ptype()`` to parse an Ethernet packet
+    in an mbuf chain and retrieve its packet type by software.
+  * Added new functions ``rte_get_ptype_*()`` to dump a packet type as a string.
+
+* **Improved offloads support in mbuf.**
+
+  * Added a new function ``rte_raw_cksum_mbuf()`` to process the checksum of
+    data embedded in an mbuf chain.
+  * Added new Rx checksum flags in mbufs to describe more states: unknown,
+    good, bad, or not present (useful for virtual drivers). This modification
+    was done for IP and L4.
+
+* **Added vhost-user dequeue zero copy support**
+
+  The copy in dequeue path is saved, which is meant to improve the performance.
+  In the VM2VM case, the boost is quite impressive. The bigger the packet size,
+  the bigger performance boost you may get. However, for VM2NIC case, there
+  are some limitations, yet the boost is not that impressive as VM2VM case.
+  It may even drop quite a bit for small packets.
+
+  For such reason, this feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled when
+  ``RTE_VHOST_USER_DEQUEUE_ZERO_COPY`` flag is given. Check the vhost section
+  at programming guide for more information.
+
 * **Added vhost-user indirect descriptors support.**
 
   If indirect descriptor feature is negotiated, each packet sent by the guest
@@ -71,6 +100,28 @@ New Features
   * MD5_HMAC algorithm
   * SHA224-HMAC algorithm
   * SHA384-HMAC algorithm
+  * GMAC algorithm
+  * KASUMI (F8 and F9) algorithm
+  * 3DES algorithm
+  * NULL algorithm
+  * C3XXX device
+  * C62XX device
+
+* **Added libcrypto PMD.**
+
+  A new crypto PMD has been added, which provides several ciphering and hashing.
+  All cryptography operations are using Openssl library crypto API.
+
+* **Updated the IPsec example with following support:**
+
+  * configuration file
+  * AES CBC IV generation with cipher forward function
+  * AES GCM/CTR mode
+
+* **Added support for new gcc -march option.**
+
+  The GCC 4.9 ``-march`` option supports the Intel processor code names.
+  The config option ``RTE_MACHINE`` can be used to pass code names to the compiler as ``-march`` flag.
 
 
 Resolved Issues
@@ -139,6 +190,9 @@ API Changes
 * The ``rte_ivshmem`` feature (including library and EAL code) has been removed
   in 16.11 because it had some design issues which were not planned to be fixed.
 
+* The ``file_name`` data type of ``struct rte_port_source_params`` and
+  ``struct rte_port_sink_params`` is changed from `char *`` to ``const char *``.
+
 
 ABI Changes
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