profiles which can be programmed by dynamic device personalization (DDP)
process.
+* **Updated mlx5 driver.**
+
+ Updated the mlx5 driver including the following changes:
+
+ * Enabled compilation as a plugin, thus removed the mandatory dependency with rdma-core.
+ With the special compilation, the rdma-core libraries will be loaded only in case
+ Mellanox device is being used. For binaries creation the PMD can be enabled, still not
+ requiring from every end user to install rdma-core.
+ * Improved multi-segment packet performance.
+ * Changed driver name to use the PCI address to be compatible with OVS-DPDK APIs.
+ * Extended statistics for physical port packet/byte counters.
+ * Converted to the new offloads API.
+ * Supported device removal check operation.
+
+* **Updated mlx4 driver.**
+
+ Updated the mlx4 driver including the following changes:
+
+ * Enabled compilation as a plugin, thus removed the mandatory dependency with rdma-core.
+ With the special compilation, the rdma-core libraries will be loaded only in case
+ Mellanox device is being used. For binaries creation the PMD can be enabled, still not
+ requiring from every end user to install rdma-core.
+ * Improved data path performance.
+ * Converted to the new offloads API.
+ * Supported device removal check operation.
+
* **Added NVGRE and UDP tunnels support in Solarflare network PMD.**
Added support for NVGRE, VXLAN and GENEVE tunnels.
* Rx/Tx descriptor status
* Link status update/event
+* **Add feature supports for live migration from vhost-net to vhost-user.**
+
+ To make live migration from vhost-net to vhost-user possible, added
+ feature supports for vhost-user. The features include:
+
+ * VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT
+ * VIRTIO_F_EVENT_IDX
+ * VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ECN, VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_ECN
+ * VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_UFO, VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_UFO
+ * VIRTIO_NET_F_GSO
+
+* **Added VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE feature support in virtio pmd.**
+
+ In scenario where the vhost backend doesn't have the ability to generate RARP
+ packet, the VM running virtio pmd can still be live migrated if
+ VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE feature is negotiated.
+
* **Updated the AESNI-MB PMD.**
The AESNI-MB PMD has been updated with additional support for:
renamed the application from SW PMD specific ``eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd``
to PMD agnostic ``eventdev_pipeline``.
+* **Added Rawdev, a generic device support library.**
+
+ Rawdev library provides support for integrating any generic device type with
+ DPDK framework. Generic devices are those which do not have a pre-defined
+ type within DPDK, for example, ethernet, crypto, event etc.
+ A set of northbound APIs have been defined which encompass a generic set of
+ operations by allowing applications to interact with device using opaque
+ structures/buffers. Also, southbound APIs provide APIs for integrating device
+ either as as part of a physical bus (PCI, FSLMC etc) or through ``vdev``.
+
+ See the :doc:`../prog_guide/rawdev` programmer's guide for more details.
+
+* **Added new multi-process communication channel**
+
+ Added a generic channel in EAL for multi-process (primary/secondary) communication.
+ Consumers of this channel need to register an action with an action name to response
+ a message received; the actions will be identified by the action name and executed
+ in the context of a new dedicated thread for this channel. The list of new APIs:
+
+ * ``rte_mp_register`` and ``rte_mp_unregister`` are for action (un)registration.
+ * ``rte_mp_sendmsg`` is for sending a message without blocking for a response.
+ * ``rte_mp_request`` is for sending a request message and will block until
+ it gets a reply message which is sent from the peer by ``rte_mp_reply``.
+
+* **Add GRO support for VxLAN-tunneled packets.**
+
+ Add GRO support for VxLAN-tunneled packets. Supported VxLAN packets
+ must contain an outer IPv4 header and inner TCP/IPv4 headers. VxLAN
+ GRO doesn't check if input packets have correct checksums and doesn't
+ update checksums for output packets. Additionally, it assumes the
+ packets are complete (i.e., MF==0 && frag_off==0), when IP
+ fragmentation is possible (i.e., DF==0).
+
+* **Increased default Rx and Tx ring size in sample applications.**
+
+ Increased the default ``RX_RING_SIZE`` and ``TX_RING_SIZE`` to 1024 entries
+ in testpmd and the sample applications to give better performance in the
+ general case. The user should experiment with various Rx and Tx ring sizes
+ for their specific application to get best performance.
+
+* **Added new DPDK build system using the tools "meson" and "ninja" [EXPERIMENTAL]**
+
+ Added in support for building DPDK using ``meson`` and ``ninja``, which gives
+ additional features, such as automatic build-time configuration, over the
+ current build system using ``make``. For instructions on how to do a DPDK build
+ using the new system, see the instructions in ``doc/build-sdk-meson.txt``.
+
+.. note::
+
+ This new build system support is incomplete at this point and is added
+ as experimental in this release. The existing build system using ``make``
+ is unaffected by these changes, and can continue to be used for this
+ and subsequent releases until such time as it's deprecation is announced.
+
API Changes
-----------
librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
librte_port.so.3
librte_power.so.1
+ + librte_rawdev.so.1
librte_reorder.so.1
librte_ring.so.1
librte_sched.so.1
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+
+* Intel(R) platforms with Intel(R) NICs combinations
+
+ * CPU
+
+ * Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2758 @ 2.40GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1540 @ 2.00GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1541 @ 2.10GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-4667 v3 @ 2.00GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v4 @ 2.10GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2658 v2 @ 2.40GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2658 v3 @ 2.20GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8180 CPU @ 2.50GHz
+
+ * OS:
+
+ * CentOS 7.2
+ * Fedora 25
+ * Fedora 26
+ * Fedora 27
+ * FreeBSD 11
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3
+ * SUSE Enterprise Linux 12
+ * Wind River Linux 8
+ * Ubantu 14.04
+ * Ubuntu 16.04
+ * Ubuntu 16.10
+ * Ubantu 17.10
+
+ * NICs:
+
+ * Intel(R) 82599ES 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
+
+ * Firmware version: 0x61bf0001
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:10fb / 8086:10ed
+ * Driver version: 5.2.3 (ixgbe)
+
+ * Intel(R) Corporation Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T
+
+ * Firmware version: 0x800003e7
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:15ad / 8086:15a8
+ * Driver version: 4.4.6 (ixgbe)
+
+ * Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA4 (4x10G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 6.01 0x80003221
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1572 / 8086:154c
+ * Driver version: 2.4.3 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T
+
+ * firmware-version: 6.01 0x80003221
+ * Device id: 8086:37d2 / 8086:154c
+ * Driver version: 2.4.3 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (2x25G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 6.01 0x80003221
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:158b / 8086:154c
+ * Driver version: 2.4.3 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710-QDA2 (2X40G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 6.01 0x8000321c
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1583 / 8086:154c
+ * Driver version: 2.4.3 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel(R) Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
+
+ * Firmware version: 1.63, 0x80000dda
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1521 / 8086:1520
+ * Driver version: 5.3.0-k (igb)
+
+* Intel(R) platforms with Mellanox(R) NICs combinations
+
+ * CPU:
+
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697A v4 @ 2.60GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 @ 2.50GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz
+
+ * OS:
+
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 Beta (Maipo)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)
+ * Ubuntu 17.10
+ * Ubuntu 16.10
+ * Ubuntu 16.04
+
+ * MLNX_OFED: 4.2-1.0.0.0
+ * MLNX_OFED: 4.3-0.1.6.0
+
+ * NICs:
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-3 Pro 40G MCX354A-FCC_Ax (2x40G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1007
+ * Firmware version: 2.42.5000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 10G MCX4111A-XCAT (1x10G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 10G MCX4121A-XCAT (2x10G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 25G MCX4111A-ACAT (1x25G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 40G MCX4131A-BCAT/MCX413A-BCAT (1x40G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 40G MCX415A-BCAT (1x40G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX4131A-GCAT/MCX413A-GCAT (1x50G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX414A-BCAT (2x50G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX415A-GCAT/MCX416A-BCAT/MCX416A-GCAT (2x50G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX415A-CCAT (1x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 100G MCX416A-CCAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 Lx 10G MCX4121A-XCAT (2x10G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1015
+ * Firmware version: 14.21.1000 and above
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 Lx 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1015
+ * Firmware version: 14.21.1000 and above
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-5 100G MCX556A-ECAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1017
+ * Firmware version: 16.21.1000 and above
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX-5 Ex EN 100G MCX516A-CDAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1019
+ * Firmware version: 16.21.1000 and above
+
+* ARM platforms with Mellanox(R) NICs combinations
+
+ * CPU:
+
+ * Qualcomm ARM 1.1 2500MHz
+
+ * OS:
+
+ * Ubuntu 16.04
+
+ * MLNX_OFED: 4.2-1.0.0.0
+
+ * NICs:
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 Lx 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1015
+ * Firmware version: 14.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-5 100G MCX556A-ECAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1017
+ * Firmware version: 16.21.1000