doc: update release notes for mlx5 driver

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
index b265c2e..5d2ea99 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
@@ -59,6 +59,20 @@ New Features
   "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this new
   driver.
 
+* **Updated mlx5 driver.**
+
+  Updated the mlx5 driver including the following changes:
+
+   * Enabled PMD to run on top of upstream linux kernel and rdma-core libs.
+     By that removed the dependency on specific Mellanox OFED libraries.
+   * Improved PMD latency performance.
+   * Improved PMD memory footprint.
+   * Supported vectorized Rx/Tx burst for ARMv8.
+   * Supported secondary process.
+   * Supported flow counters.
+   * Supported Rx hardware timestamp offload.
+   * Supported device removal event.
+
 * **Added SoftNIC PMD.**
 
   Added new SoftNIC PMD. This virtual device offers applications a software
@@ -296,6 +310,20 @@ API Changes
   The function ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver()`` has been modified.
   An extra parameter ``struct cryptodev_driver *crypto_drv`` has been added.
 
+* **Removed virtual device bus specific functions from librte_cryptodev.**
+
+  The functions ``rte_cryptodev_vdev_parse_init_params()`` and
+  ``rte_cryptodev_vdev_pmd_init()`` have been removed from librte_cryptodev
+  and have been replaced by non bus specific functions
+  ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_parse_input_args()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()``.
+
+* **Removed PCI device bus specific functions from librte_cryptodev.**
+
+  The functions ``rte_cryptodev_pci_generic_probe()`` and
+  ``rte_cryptodev_pci_generic_remove()`` have been removed from librte_cryptodev
+  and have been replaced by non bus specific functions
+  ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_destroy()``.
+
 * **Removed deprecated functions to manage log level or type.**
 
   The functions ``rte_set_log_level()``, ``rte_get_log_level()``,
@@ -362,7 +390,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
    + librte_bitratestats.so.2
      librte_cfgfile.so.2
      librte_cmdline.so.2
-     librte_cryptodev.so.3
+   + librte_cryptodev.so.4
      librte_distributor.so.1
    + librte_eal.so.6
    + librte_ethdev.so.8
@@ -396,6 +424,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_reorder.so.1
      librte_ring.so.1
      librte_sched.so.1
+   + librte_security.so.1
    + librte_table.so.3
      librte_timer.so.1
      librte_vhost.so.3