doc: announce removal of vhost zero-copy dequeue

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_20_08.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
index 9bb37c7..98dd482 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
@@ -96,6 +96,18 @@ New Features
   * Async device channel register/unregister APIs
   * Async packets enqueue/completion APIs (only split ring was implemented)
 
+* **Added vDPA device APIs to query virtio queue statistics.**
+
+  A new 3 APIs has been added to query virtio queue statistics, to get their
+  names and to reset them by a vDPA device.
+
+* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver.**
+
+  Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver with new features, including:
+
+  * Added support for virtio queue statistics.
+  * Added support for MTU update.
+
 * **Added eCPRI protocol support in rte_flow.**
 
   The ``ECPRI`` item has been added to support eCPRI packet offloading for
@@ -103,9 +115,9 @@ New Features
 
 * **Introduced send packet scheduling on the timestamps.**
 
-   Added the new mbuf dynamic field and flag to provide timestamp on what packet
-   transmitting can be synchronized. The device Tx offload flag is added to
-   indicate the PMD supports send scheduling.
+  Added the new mbuf dynamic field and flag to provide timestamp on what packet
+  transmitting can be synchronized. The device Tx offload flag is added to
+  indicate the PMD supports send scheduling.
 
 * **Updated PCAP driver.**
 
@@ -140,31 +152,6 @@ New Features
   * Added support for LRO.
   * Added support for setting VF PVID by PF driver.
 
-* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 net driver and common layer.**
-
-  Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
-
-  * Added mlx5 PCI layer to share a PCI device among multiple PMDs.
-  * Added support for eCPRI protocol offloading.
-  * Added devargs options ``reclaim_mem_mode``, ``sys_mem_en``,
-    ``lacp_by_user`` and ``decap_en``.
-
-* **Added vDPA device APIs to query virtio queue statistics.**
-
-     A new 3 APIs has been added to query virtio queue statistics, to get their
-     names and to reset them by a vDPA device.
-
-* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver.**
-
-  Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver with new features, including:
-
-  * Added support for virtio queue statistics.
-  * Added support for MTU update.
-
-* **Updated Marvell octeontx2 ethdev PMD.**
-
-  Updated Marvell octeontx2 driver with cn98xx support.
-
 * **Updated the Intel ice driver.**
 
   Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
@@ -197,6 +184,19 @@ New Features
 
   * Re-implemented get_fdir_info and get_fdir_stat in private API.
 
+* **Updated Marvell octeontx2 ethdev PMD.**
+
+  Updated Marvell octeontx2 driver with cn98xx support.
+
+* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 net driver and common layer.**
+
+  Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Added mlx5 PCI layer to share a PCI device among multiple PMDs.
+  * Added support for eCPRI protocol offloading.
+  * Added devargs options ``reclaim_mem_mode``, ``sys_mem_en``,
+    ``lacp_by_user`` and ``decap_en``.
+
 * **Updated NXP dpaa ethdev PMD.**
 
   Updated the NXP dpaa ethdev with new features and improvements, including:
@@ -612,3 +612,66 @@ Tested Platforms
   * OFED:
 
     * MLNX_OFED 5.0-2.1.8.0
+
+* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Broadcom\ |reg| NICs combinations
+
+  * CPU:
+
+    * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz
+    * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2667 v3 @ 3.20GHz
+    * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz
+    * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6142 CPU @ 2.60GHz
+    * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Silver 4110 CPU @ 2.10GHz
+
+  * OS:
+
+    * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 8.1
+    * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6
+    * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5
+    * Ubuntu 16.04
+    * Centos 8.1
+    * Centos 7.7
+
+  * upstream kernel:
+
+    * Linux 5.3.4
+
+  * NICs:
+
+    * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P225p (2x25G)
+
+      * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+      * Firmware version: 214.4.81.0 and above
+
+    * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P425p (4x25G)
+
+      * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+      * Firmware version: 216.4.259.0 and above
+
+    * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P2100G (2x100G)
+
+      * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+      * Firmware version: 216.1.259.0 and above
+
+    * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P425p (4x25G)
+
+      * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
+      * Firmware version: 216.1.259.0 and above
+
+    * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P2100G (2x100G)
+
+      * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
+      * Firmware version: 216.1.259.0 and above
+
+* Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-S\ |reg| Series SmartNIC
+
+  * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-S\ |reg| Series PS225-H16 SmartNIC (2x25G)
+
+    * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+    * Firmware version: 217.0.59.0
+
+  * Embedded software:
+
+    * Broadcom Yocto Linux
+    * Kernel version: 4.14.174
+    * DPDK application running on 8 Arm Cortex-A72 cores