doc: add Cavium OCTEONTX eventdev PMD to release notes

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_05.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst
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--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst
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@@ -170,6 +170,36 @@ New Features
   * Rxq interrupt for virtio-user + vhost-kernel as the backend.
   * LSC interrupt for virtio-user + vhost-user as the backend.
 
+* **Added event driven programming model library (rte_eventdev).**
+
+  This API introduces event driven programming model.
+
+  In a polling model, lcores poll ethdev ports and associated
+  rx queues directly to look for packet. In an event driven model,
+  by contrast, lcores call the scheduler that selects packets for
+  them based on programmer-specified criteria. Eventdev library
+  added support for event driven programming model, which offer
+  applications automatic multicore scaling, dynamic load balancing,
+  pipelining, packet ingress order maintenance and
+  synchronization services to simplify application packet processing.
+
+  By introducing event driven programming model, DPDK can support
+  both polling and event driven programming models for packet processing,
+  and applications are free to choose whatever model
+  (or combination of the two) that best suits their needs.
+
+* **Added Software Eventdev PMD.**
+
+  Added support for the software eventdev PMD. The software eventdev is a
+  software based scheduler device that implements the eventdev API. This
+  PMD allows an application to configure a pipeline using the eventdev
+  library, and run the scheduling workload on a CPU core.
+
+* **Added Cavium OCTEONTX Eventdev PMD.**
+
+  Added the new octeontx ssovf eventdev driver for OCTEONTX devices. See the
+  "Event Device Drivers" document for more details on this new driver.
+
 
 Resolved Issues
 ---------------
@@ -296,6 +326,32 @@ API Changes
     be per vhost-user socket file. Thus, it takes one more argument:
     ``rte_vhost_driver_callback_register(path, ops)``.
 
+  * The vhost API ``rte_vhost_get_queue_num`` is deprecated, instead,
+    ``rte_vhost_get_vring_num`` should be used.
+
+  * Following macros are removed in ``rte_virtio_net.h``
+
+    * ``VIRTIO_RXQ``
+    * ``VIRTIO_TXQ``
+    * ``VIRTIO_QNUM``
+
+  * Following net specific header files are removed in ``rte_virtio_net.h``
+
+    * ``linux/virtio_net.h``
+    * ``sys/socket.h``
+    * ``linux/if.h``
+    * ``rte_ether.h``
+
+  * The vhost struct ``virtio_net_device_ops`` is renamed to
+    ``vhost_device_ops``
+
+  * The vhost API ``rte_vhost_driver_session_start`` is removed. Instead,
+    ``rte_vhost_driver_start`` should be used, and no need to create a
+    thread to call it.
+
+  * The vhost public header file ``rte_virtio_net.h`` is renamed to
+    ``rte_vhost.h``
+
 
 ABI Changes
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