doc: add eventdev apps changes in release notes

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_18_02.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
index 24a5080..f986244 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
@@ -99,6 +99,47 @@ New Features
   * Rx/Tx descriptor status
   * Link status update/event
 
+* **Added Wireless Base Band Device (bbdev) abstraction.**
+
+  The Wireless Baseband Device library is an acceleration abstraction
+  framework for 3gpp Layer 1 processing functions that provides a common
+  programming interface for seamless opeartion on integrated or discrete
+  hardware accelerators or using optimized software libraries for signal
+  processing.
+  The current release only supports 3GPP CRC, Turbo Coding and Rate
+  Matching operations, as specified in 3GPP TS 36.212.
+
+  See the :doc:`../prog_guide/bbdev` programmer's guide for more details.
+
+* **Added New eventdev OPDL PMD**
+
+  The OPDL (Ordered Packet Distribution Library) eventdev is a specific
+  implementation of the eventdev API. It is particularly suited to packet
+  processing workloads that have high throughput and low latency requirements.
+  All packets follow the same path through the device. The order in which
+  packets  follow is determinted by the order in which queues are set up.
+  Events are left on the ring until they are transmitted. As a result packets
+  do not go out of order.
+
+  With this change, application can use OPDL PMD by eventdev api.
+
+* **Added New pipeline use case for dpdk-test-eventdev application**
+
+  The pipeline case can be used to simulate various stages in a real world
+  application from packet receive to transmit while maintaining the packet
+  ordering also measure the performance of the event device across the stages
+  of the pipeline.
+
+  The pipeline use case has been made generic to work will all the event
+  devices based on the capabilities.
+
+* **Updated Eventdev Sample application to support event devices based on capability**
+
+  Updated Eventdev pipeline sample application to support various types of pipelines
+  based on the capabilities of the attached event and ethernet devices. Also,
+  renamed the application from SW PMD specific ``eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd``
+  to PMD agnostic ``eventdev_pipeline``.
+
 
 API Changes
 -----------
@@ -175,6 +216,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
 .. code-block:: diff
 
      librte_acl.so.2
+   + librte_bbdev.so.1
      librte_bitratestats.so.2
      librte_bus_dpaa.so.1
      librte_bus_fslmc.so.1