+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ Copyright 2017 The DPDK contributors
+
DPDK Release 17.11
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New Features
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* **Extended port_id range from uint8_t to uint16_t.**
Increased the ``port_id`` range from 8 bits to 16 bits in order to support
* **Added a new driver for Marvell Armada 7k/8k devices.**
Added the new ``mrvl`` net driver for Marvell Armada 7k/8k devices. See the
- :doc:`../nics/mrvl` NIC guide for more details on this new driver.
+ :doc:`../nics/mvpp2` NIC guide for more details on this new driver.
* **Updated mlx4 driver.**
* The DES CBC algorithm.
* The DES DOCSIS BPI algorithm.
- This change requires version 0.47 of the IPSec Multi-buffer library. For
+ This change requires version 0.47 of the IPsec Multi-buffer library. For
more details see the :doc:`../cryptodevs/aesni_mb` documentation.
* **Updated the OpenSSL PMD.**
A new crypto PMD has been added, which provides several ciphering and hashing
algorithms. All cryptography operations use the MUSDK library crypto API.
- See the :doc:`../cryptodevs/mrvl` document for more details.
+ See the :doc:`../cryptodevs/mvsam` document for more details.
* **Add new benchmarking mode to dpdk-test-crypto-perf application.**
* **Added the Security Offload Library.**
Added an experimental library - ``rte_security``. This provide security APIs
- for protocols like IPSec using inline ipsec offload to ethernet devices or
+ for protocols like IPsec using inline ipsec offload to ethernet devices or
full protocol offload with lookaside crypto devices.
See the :doc:`../prog_guide/rte_security` section of the DPDK Programmers
* **Updated the DPAA2_SEC crypto driver to support rte_security.**
Updated the ``dpaa2_sec`` crypto PMD to support ``rte_security`` lookaside
- protocol offload for IPSec.
+ protocol offload for IPsec.
* **Updated the IXGBE ethernet driver to support rte_security.**
- Updated ixgbe ethernet PMD to support ``rte_security`` inline IPSec offload.
+ Updated ixgbe ethernet PMD to support ``rte_security`` inline IPsec offload.
+
+* **Updated i40e driver to support GTP-C/GTP-U.**
+
+ Updated i40e PMD to support GTP-C/GTP-U with GTP-C/GTP-U supporting
+ profiles which can be programmed by dynamic device personalization (DDP)
+ process.
+
+* **Added the i40e ethernet driver to support queue region feature.**
+
+ This feature enable queue regions configuration for RSS in PF,
+ so that different traffic classes or different packet
+ classification types can be separated into different queues in
+ different queue regions.
* **Updated ipsec-secgw application to support rte_security.**
Resolved Issues
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* **Service core fails to call service callback due to atomic lock**
In a specific configuration of multi-thread unsafe services and service
API Changes
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* **Ethdev device name length increased.**
The size of internal device name has been increased to 64 characters
* **Added mbuf flags PKT_RX_VLAN and PKT_RX_QINQ.**
Two ``mbuf`` flags have been added to indicate that the VLAN
- identifier has been saved in in the ``mbuf`` structure. For instance:
+ identifier has been saved in the ``mbuf`` structure. For instance:
- If VLAN is not stripped and TCI is saved: ``PKT_RX_VLAN``
- If VLAN is stripped and TCI is saved: ``PKT_RX_VLAN | PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED``
ABI Changes
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* **Extended port_id range.**
The size of the field ``port_id`` in the ``rte_eth_dev_data`` structure
* **New parameter added to rte_eth_dev.**
A new parameter ``security_ctx`` has been added to ``rte_eth_dev`` to
- support security operations like IPSec inline.
+ support security operations like IPsec inline.
* **New parameter added to rte_cryptodev.**
Removed Items
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* Xen dom0 in EAL has been removed, as well as the xenvirt PMD and vhost_xen.
* The crypto performance unit tests have been removed,
Shared Library Versions
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- librte_acl.so.2
- + librte_cfgfile.so.2
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The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
.. code-block:: diff
librte_acl.so.2
+ librte_bitratestats.so.2
+ + librte_bus_dpaa.so.1
+ + librte_bus_fslmc.so.1
+ + librte_bus_pci.so.1
+ librte_bus_vdev.so.1
librte_cfgfile.so.2
librte_cmdline.so.2
Tested Platforms
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* Intel(R) platforms with Intel(R) NICs combinations
* CPU
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