event/dsw: add documentation

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_18_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
index a4f1d5d..0e4be3a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
@@ -81,6 +81,14 @@ New Features
   * Support for runtime Rx and Tx queues setup.
   * Support multicast MAC address set.
 
+* **Added Distributed Software Eventdev PMD.**
+
+  Added the new Distributed Software Event Device (DSW), which is a
+  pure-software eventdev driver distributing the work of scheduling
+  among all eventdev ports and the lcores using them. DSW, compared to
+  the SW eventdev PMD, sacrifices load balancing performance to
+  gain better event scheduling throughput and scalability.
+
 * **Added ability to switch queue deferred start flag on testpmd app.**
 
   Added a console command to testpmd app, giving ability to switch
@@ -112,6 +120,12 @@ API Changes
   flag the MAC can be properly configured in any case. This is particularly
   important for bonding.
 
+* The default behaviour of CRC strip offload changed. Without any specific Rx
+  offload flag, default behavior by PMD is now to strip CRC.
+  DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP offload flag has been removed.
+  To request keeping CRC, application should set ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEEP_CRC`` Rx
+  offload.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -175,7 +189,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_distributor.so.1
      librte_eal.so.8
      librte_ethdev.so.10
-     librte_eventdev.so.4
+     librte_eventdev.so.5
      librte_flow_classify.so.1
      librte_gro.so.1
      librte_gso.so.1