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

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@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ New Features
   Added the FEC API which provides functions for query FEC capabilities and
   current FEC mode from device. Also, API for configuring FEC mode is also provided.
 
+* **Added thread safety to rte_flow functions.**
+
+  Added ``RTE_ETH_DEV_FLOW_OPS_THREAD_SAFE`` device flag to indicate
+  whether PMD supports thread safe operations. If PMD doesn't set the flag,
+  rte_flow API level functions will protect the flow operations with mutex.
+
 * **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.**
 
   Updated the Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including:
@@ -152,6 +158,13 @@ New Features
     ``--portmask=N``
     where N represents the hexadecimal bitmask of ports used.
 
+* **Added raw data-path APIs for cryptodev library.**
+
+  Cryptodev is added with raw data-path APIs to accelerate external
+  libraries or applications which need to avail fast cryptodev
+  enqueue/dequeue operations but does not necessarily depends on
+  mbufs and cryptodev operation mempools.
+
 * **Updated the aesni_mb crypto PMD.**
 
   * Added support for AES-ECB 128, 192 and 256.
@@ -159,6 +172,7 @@ New Features
   * Added support for SNOW3G-UEA2/UIA2 algorithms.
   * Added support for KASUMI-F8/F9 algorithms.
   * Added support for Chacha20-Poly1305.
+  * Added support for AES-256 CCM algorithm.
 
 * **Updated the aesni_gcm crypto PMD.**
 
@@ -185,18 +199,32 @@ New Features
   * Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD lookaside protocol offload for IPsec with
     IPv6 support.
 
+* **Updated QAT crypto PMD.**
+
+  * Added Raw Data-path APIs support.
+
 * **Added Intel ACC100 bbdev PMD.**
 
   Added a new ``acc100`` bbdev driver for the Intel\ |reg| ACC100 accelerator
   also known as Mount Bryce.  See the
   :doc:`../bbdevs/acc100` BBDEV guide for more details on this new driver.
 
+* **Updated rte_security library to support SDAP.**
+
+  ``rte_security_pdcp_xform`` in ``rte_security`` lib is updated to enable
+  5G NR processing of SDAP header in PMDs.
+
 * **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 regex PMD.**
 
   Added a new PMD driver for hardware regex offload block for OCTEON TX2 SoC.
 
   See the :doc:`../regexdevs/octeontx2` for more details.
 
+* **Updated Software Eventdev driver.**
+
+  Added performance tuning arguments to allow tuning the scheduler for
+  better throughtput in high core count use cases.
+
 * **Updated ioat rawdev driver**
 
   The ioat rawdev driver has been updated and enhanced. Changes include:
@@ -344,6 +372,14 @@ API Changes
 
 * vhost: Moved vDPA APIs from experimental to stable.
 
+* cryptodev: The structure ``rte_crypto_sym_vec`` is updated to support both
+  cpu_crypto synchrounous operation and asynchronous raw data-path APIs.
+
+* cryptodev: ``RTE_CRYPTO_AEAD_LIST_END`` from ``enum rte_crypto_aead_algorithm``,
+  ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_LIST_END`` from ``enum rte_crypto_cipher_algorithm`` and
+  ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_LIST_END`` from ``enum rte_crypto_auth_algorithm``
+  are removed to avoid future ABI breakage while adding new algorithms.
+
 * scheduler: Renamed functions ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_slave_attach``,
   ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_slave_detach`` and
   ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_slaves_get`` to
@@ -355,6 +391,10 @@ API Changes
   ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_SCHEDULER_MAX_NB_SLAVES`` to
   ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_SCHEDULER_MAX_NB_WORKERS``.
 
+* security: ``hfn_ovrd`` field in ``rte_security_pdcp_xform`` is changed from
+  ``uint32_t`` to ``uint8_t`` so that a new field ``sdap_enabled`` can be added
+  to support SDAP.
+
 * ipsec: ``RTE_SATP_LOG2_NUM`` has been dropped from ``enum`` and
   subsequently moved ``rte_ipsec`` lib from experimental to stable.