ip_frag: remove IP checkum offload flag

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_19_08.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
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--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
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@@ -56,6 +56,13 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =========================================================
 
+* **Added MCS lock.**
+
+  MCS lock provides scalability by spinning on a CPU/thread local variable
+  which avoids expensive cache bouncings.
+  It provides fairness by maintaining a list of acquirers and passing
+  the lock to each CPU/thread in the order they acquired the lock.
+
 * **Updated the EAL Pseudo-random Number Generator.**
 
   The lrand48()-based rte_rand() function is replaced with a
@@ -98,6 +105,13 @@ New Features
   * Enabled generic filter framework and supported switch filter.
   * Supported UDP tunnel port add.
 
+* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
+
+  Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Updated the packet header modification feature. Added support of TCP header
+    sequence number and acknowledgment number modification.
+
 * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
 
   Updated the Solarflare ``sfc_efx`` driver with changes including:
@@ -120,6 +134,31 @@ New Features
   * Enabled need_wakeup feature which can provide efficient support for case
     that application and driver executing on the same core.
 
+* **Enabled infinite Rx in the PCAP PMD.**
+
+  Added an infinite Rx feature which allows packets in the Rx PCAP of a PCAP
+  device to be received repeatedly at a high rate. This can be useful for quick
+  performance testing of DPDK apps.
+
+* **Added a FPGA_LTE_FEC bbdev PMD.**
+
+  Added the new ``fpga_lte_fec`` bbdev driver for the Intel® FPGA PAC
+  (Programmable  Acceleration Card) N3000.  See the
+  :doc:`../bbdevs/fpga_lte_fec` BBDEV guide for more details on this new driver.
+
+* **Updated TURBO_SW bbdev PMD.**
+
+  Updated the ``turbo_sw`` bbdev driver with changes including:
+
+  * Added option to build the driver with or without dependency of external
+    SDK libraries.
+  * Added support for 5GNR encode/decode operations.
+
+* **Updated the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) symmetric crypto PMD.**
+
+  Added support for digest-encrypted cases where digest is appended
+  to the data.
+
 * **Added Intel QuickData Technology PMD**
 
   The PMD for Intel\ |reg|  QuickData Technology, part of
@@ -135,6 +174,12 @@ New Features
   handshake between two separate hosts and can share local memory for peer
   host to directly access.
 
+* **Updated IPSec library Header Reconstruction.**
+
+  Updated the IPSec library with ECN and DSCP field header reconstruction
+  feature followed by RFC4301. The IPSec-secgw sample application is also
+  updated to support this feature by default.
+
 * **Updated telemetry library for global metrics support.**
 
   Updated ``librte_telemetry`` to fetch the global metrics from the
@@ -195,6 +240,21 @@ API Changes
   announced at least one release before the ABI change is made. There are no
   ABI breaking changes planned.
 
+* ip_frag: IP fragmentation library converts input mbuf into fragments
+  using input MTU size via ``rte_ipv4_fragment_packet`` interface.
+  Once fragmentation is done, each ``mbuf->ol_flags`` are set to enable IP
+  checksum H/W offload irrespective of the platform capability.
+  Cleared IP checksum H/W offload flag from the library. The application must
+  set this flag if it is supported by the platform and application wishes to
+  use it.
+
+* ip_frag: IP reassembly library converts the list of fragments into a
+  reassembled packet via ``rte_ipv4_frag_reassemble_packet`` interface.
+  Once reassembly is done, ``mbuf->ol_flags`` are set to enable IP checksum H/W
+  offload irrespective of the platform capability. Cleared IP checksum H/W
+  offload flag from the library. The application must set this flag if it is
+  supported by the platform and application wishes to use it.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -223,6 +283,19 @@ ABI Changes
   Add a Rx adapter stats field to keep track of the total
   number of dropped packets.
 
+* cryptodev: New member in ``rte_cryptodev_config`` to allow applications to
+  disable features supported by the crypto device. Only the following features
+  would be allowed to be disabled this way,
+
+  - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_SYMMETRIC_CRYPTO``
+  - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_ASYMMETRIC_CRYPTO``
+  - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_SECURITY``
+
+  Disabling unused features would facilitate efficient usage of HW/SW offload.
+
+* bbdev: New operations and parameters added to support new 5GNR operations.
+  The bbdev ABI is still kept experimental.
+
 
 Shared Library Versions
 -----------------------
@@ -254,7 +327,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_cfgfile.so.2
      librte_cmdline.so.2
      librte_compressdev.so.1
-     librte_cryptodev.so.7
+   + librte_cryptodev.so.8
      librte_distributor.so.1
    + librte_eal.so.11
      librte_efd.so.1