DPDK Release 20.05
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New Features
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- * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
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* **Added Trace Library and Tracepoints.**
Added a native implementation of the "common trace format" (CTF) based trace
* Added flow counters to extended stats.
* Added PCI function stats to extended stats.
+* **Updated Cisco enic driver.**
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+ Updated Cisco enic driver GENEVE tunneling support:
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+ * Added support to control GENEVE tunneling via UCSM/CIMC and removed devarg.
+ * Added GENEVE port number configuration.
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* **Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver.**
Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver with new features and improvements, including:
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* mempool: The API of ``rte_mempool_populate_iova()`` and
``rte_mempool_populate_virt()`` changed to return 0 instead of ``-EINVAL``
when there is not enough room to store one object.
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* No ABI change that would break compatibility with DPDK 20.02 and 19.11.
Tested Platforms
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* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Broadcom\ |reg| NICs combinations
* CPU:
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