doc: add new SWX pipeline type to release notes

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_20_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
index ae48ac3..15ec247 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
@@ -55,6 +55,40 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =======================================================
 
+* **Updated Cisco enic driver.**
+
+  * Added support for VF representors with single-queue Tx/Rx and flow API
+  * Added support for egress PORT_ID action
+  * Added support for non-zero priorities for group 0 flows
+  * Added support for VXLAN decap combined with VLAN pop
+
+* **Extended flow-perf application.**
+
+  * Started supporting user order instead of bit mask:
+    Now the user can create any structure of rte_flow
+    using flow performance application with any order,
+    moreover the app also now starts to support inner
+    items matching as well.
+  * Added header modify actions.
+  * Added flag action.
+  * Added raw encap/decap actions.
+  * Added VXLAN encap/decap actions.
+  * Added ICMP and ICMP6 matching items.
+  * Added option to set port mask for insertion/deletion:
+    ``--portmask=N``
+    where N represents the hexadecimal bitmask of ports used.
+
+* **Updated the pipeline library for alignment with the P4 language.**
+
+  Added new Software Switch (SWX) pipeline type that provides more
+  flexibility through API and feature alignment with the P4 language.
+
+  * The packet headers, meta-data, actions, tables and pipelines are
+    dynamically defined instead of selected from pre-defined set.
+  * The actions and the pipeline are defined with instructions.
+  * Extern objects and functions can be plugged into the pipeline.
+  * Transaction-oriented table updates.
+
 
 Removed Items
 -------------
@@ -84,12 +118,19 @@ API Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =======================================================
 
+* build macros: The macros defining ``RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_*`` are removed.
+  The information provided by these macros is available through standard
+  compiler macros.
+
 * eal: The ``rte_logs`` struct and global symbol was made private
   and is no longer part of the API.
 
 * eal: Made the ``rte_dev_event`` structure private to the EAL as no public API
   used it.
 
+* eal: ``rte_cio_rmb()`` and ``rte_cio_wmb()`` were deprecated since 20.08
+  and are removed in this release.
+
 * mem: Removed the unioned field ``phys_addr`` from
   the structures ``rte_memseg`` and ``rte_memzone``.
   The field ``iova`` is remaining from the old unions.