CXGBE VF Poll Mode Driver has been added to run DPDK over Chelsio
T5/T6 NIC VF instances.
+* **Updated mlx5 driver.**
+
+ Updated the mlx5 driver including the following changes:
+
+ * Introduced Multi-packet Rx. With it, achieved 100Gb/sec with 64B frames.
+ * Supported to be run by non-root users given reduced set of capabilities
+ CAP_NET_ADMIN, CAP_NET_RAW and CAP_IPC_LOCK.
+ * Supported TSO and checksum for generic UDP and IP tunnels.
+ * Supported inner checksum and RSS for GRE, VXLAN-GPE, MPLSoGRE
+ and MPLSoUDP tunnels.
+ * Accommodate to the new memory hotplug model.
+ * Supported non virtually contiguous mempools.
+ * Supported MAC adding along with allmulti and promiscuous modes from VF.
+ * Supported Mellanox BlueField SoC device.
+ * Supported PMD defaults for queue number and depth to improve the out
+ of the box performance.
+
+* **Updated mlx4 driver.**
+
+ Updated the mlx4 driver including the following changes:
+
+ * Supported to be run by non-root users given reduced set of capabilities
+ CAP_NET_ADMIN, CAP_NET_RAW and CAP_IPC_LOCK.
+ * Supported CRC strip toggling.
+ * Accommodate to the new memory hotplug model.
+ * Supported non virtually contiguous mempools.
+
* **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
Updated the sfc_efx driver including the following changes:
* ``rte_flow_create()`` API count action now requires the ``struct rte_flow_action_count``.
* ``rte_flow_query()`` API parameter changed from action type to action structure.
+* ethdev: changes to offload API
+
+ A pure per-port offloading isn't requested to be repeated in [rt]x_conf->offloads to
+ ``rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup()``. Now any offloading enabled in ``rte_eth_dev_configure()``
+ can't be disabled by ``rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup()``. Any new added offloading which has
+ not been enabled in ``rte_eth_dev_configure()`` and is requested to be enabled in
+ ``rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup()`` must be per-queue type, otherwise trigger an error log.
+
+* ethdev: runtime queue setup:
+
+ ``rte_eth_rx_queue_setup`` and ``rte_eth_tx_queue_setup`` can be called after
+ ``rte_eth_dev_start`` if device support runtime queue setup. Device driver can
+ expose this capability through ``rte_eth_dev_info_get``. A Rx or Tx queue be
+ setup at runtime need to be started explicitly by ``rte_eth_dev_rx_queue_start``
+ or ``rte_eth_dev_tx_queue_start``.
+
ABI Changes
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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-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 7.4
+ * Fedora 25
+ * Fedora 27
+ * Fedora 28
+ * FreeBSD 11.1
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3
+ * SUSE Enterprise Linux 12
+ * Wind River Linux 8
+ * Ubuntu 14.04
+ * Ubuntu 16.04
+ * Ubuntu 16.10
+ * Ubuntu 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: 2.4.6 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ (4x10G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 3.33 0x80000fd5 0.0.0
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:37d0 / 8086:37cd
+ * 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: 2.4.6 (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: 2.4.6 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel(R) Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
+
+ * Firmware version: 1.63, 0x80000dda
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1521 / 8086:1520
+ * Driver version: 5.4.0-k (igb)
+