DPDK Release 19.02
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New Features
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* **Added support for freeing hugepages exactly as originally allocated.**
Some applications using memory event callbacks (especially for managing
``CONFIG_RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_DLOPEN`` for make and ``ibverbs_link`` for meson.
* Added static linkage of ``mlx`` dependency.
* Improved stability of E-Switch flow driver.
- * Added new make build configuration to set the cacheline size for Bluefield
- correctly - ``arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc``.
+ * Added new make build configuration to set the cacheline size for BlueField
+ correctly - ``arm64-bluefield-linux-gcc``.
* **Updated the enic driver.**
API Changes
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* eal: Function ``rte_bsf64`` in ``rte_bitmap.h`` has been renamed to
``rte_bsf64_safe`` and moved to ``rte_common.h``. A new ``rte_bsf64``
function has been added in ``rte_common.h`` that follows the convention set
ABI Changes
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* mbuf: The format of the sched field of ``rte_mbuf`` has been changed
to include the following fields: ``queue ID``, ``traffic class``, ``color``.
-* cryptodev: as shown in the the 18.11 deprecation notice, the structure
+* cryptodev: as shown in the 18.11 deprecation notice, the structure
``rte_cryptodev_qp_conf`` has added two parameters for symmetric session
mempool and symmetric session private data mempool.
-* cryptodev: as shown in the the 18.11 deprecation notice, the structure
+* cryptodev: as shown in the 18.11 deprecation notice, the structure
``rte_cryptodev_sym_session`` has been updated to contain more information
to ensure safely accessing the session and session private data.
Shared Library Versions
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Known Issues
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* ``AVX-512`` support has been disabled for ``GCC`` builds when ``binutils 2.30``
is detected [1] because of a crash [2]. This can affect ``native`` machine type
build targets on the platforms that support ``AVX512F`` like ``Intel Skylake``
Tested Platforms
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* Intel(R) platforms with Intel(R) NICs combinations
* CPU
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