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 e3a959d..cd958c1 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
@@ -96,9 +96,18 @@ New Features
   including session creation/deletion handling and translating virtio-crypto
   request into DPDK crypto operations. A sample application is also introduced.
 
+* **Added virtio crypto PMD.**
+
+  Added a new poll mode driver for virtio crypto devices, which provides
+  AES-CBC ciphering and AES-CBC with HMAC-SHA1 algorithm-chaining. See the
+  :doc:`../cryptodevs/virtio` crypto driver guide for more details on
+  this new driver.
+
 * **Added AMD CCP Crypto PMD.**
 
-  Added the new ``ccp`` crypto driver for AMD CCP devices.
+  Added the new ``ccp`` crypto driver for AMD CCP devices. See the
+  :doc:`../cryptodevs/ccp` crypto driver guide for more details on
+  this new driver.
 
 * **Updated AESNI MB PMD.**
 
@@ -125,6 +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
 -----------
@@ -139,6 +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:
 
@@ -217,6 +247,18 @@ ABI Changes
   structure and the offset of the fields remains the same on platforms
   with 64B cache line, but change on other platforms.
 
+* mempool: ops have changed.
+
+  A new callback ``calc_mem_size`` has been added to ``rte_mempool_ops``
+  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.**
 
   The ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure has had two extra entries appended to the
@@ -305,7 +347,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_latencystats.so.1
      librte_lpm.so.2
    + librte_mbuf.so.4
-     librte_mempool.so.3
+   + librte_mempool.so.4
    + librte_meter.so.2
      librte_metrics.so.1
      librte_net.so.1