drivers/net: share vdev data to secondary process

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_18_05.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
index 8686fc2..cd958c1 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
@@ -134,6 +134,12 @@ New Features
 
   Linux uevent is supported as backend of this device event notification framework.
 
+* **Added support for procinfo and pdump on eth vdev.**
+
+  For ethernet virtual devices (like tap, pcap, etc), with this feature, we can get
+  stats/xstats on shared memory from secondary process, and also pdump packets on
+  those virtual devices.
+
 
 API Changes
 -----------
@@ -148,6 +154,21 @@ API Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
+* mempool: capability flags and related functions have been removed.
+
+  Flags ``MEMPOOL_F_CAPA_PHYS_CONTIG`` and
+  ``MEMPOOL_F_CAPA_BLK_ALIGNED_OBJECTS`` were used by octeontx mempool
+  driver to customize generic mempool library behaviour.
+  Now the new driver callbacks ``calc_mem_size`` and ``populate`` may be
+  used to achieve it without specific knowledge in the generic code.
+
+* mempool: xmem functions have been deprecated:
+
+  - ``rte_mempool_xmem_create``
+  - ``rte_mempool_xmem_size``
+  - ``rte_mempool_xmem_usage``
+  - ``rte_mempool_populate_iova_tab``
+
 * mbuf: The control mbuf API has been removed in v18.05. The impacted
   functions and macros are:
 
@@ -232,6 +253,11 @@ ABI Changes
   to allow to customize required memory size calculation.
   A new callback ``populate`` has been added to ``rte_mempool_ops``
   to allow to customize objects population.
+  Callback ``get_capabilities`` has been removed from ``rte_mempool_ops``
+  since its features are covered by ``calc_mem_size`` and ``populate``
+  callbacks.
+  Callback ``register_memory_area`` has been removed from ``rte_mempool_ops``
+  since the new callback ``populate`` may be used instead of it.
 
 * **Additional fields in rte_eth_dev_info.**