lib/gro: add Generic Receive Offload API framework

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_08.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
index de72b1c..576d8ca 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
@@ -153,6 +153,14 @@ New Features
   Added a multicore based distribution mode, which distributes the enqueued
   crypto operations among several slaves, running on different logical cores.
 
+* **Added dpdk-test-eventdev test application.**
+
+  The dpdk-test-eventdev tool is a Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) application
+  that allows exercising various eventdev use cases.
+  This application has a generic framework to add new eventdev based test cases
+  to verify functionality and measure the performance parameters of DPDK
+  eventdev devices.
+
 
 Resolved Issues
 ---------------
@@ -240,6 +248,7 @@ API Changes
   * Modified parameters of ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_create()``, to accept
     ``mempool``, instead of ``device id`` and ``rte_crypto_sym_xform``.
   * Remove ``device id`` parameter from ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_free()``.
+  * Added new field ``session_pool`` to ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_setup()``.
 
 
 ABI Changes
@@ -308,6 +317,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_distributor.so.1
      librte_eal.so.4
      librte_ethdev.so.6
+   + librte_gro.so.1
      librte_hash.so.2
      librte_ip_frag.so.1
      librte_jobstats.so.1