acl: add 256-bit AVX512 classify method

[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
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@@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ New Features
   The functions are provided as a generic stubs and
   x86 specific implementation.
 
+* **Updated CRC modules of the net library.**
+
+  * Added runtime selection of the optimal architecture-specific CRC path.
+  * Added optimized implementations of CRC32-Ethernet and CRC16-CCITT
+    using the AVX512 and VPCLMULQDQ instruction sets.
+
 * **Added the FEC API, for a generic FEC query and config.**
 
   Added the FEC API which provides functions for query FEC capabilities and
@@ -107,6 +113,10 @@ New Features
 
   Updated the Intel ixgbe driver to use write combining stores.
 
+* **Updated Intel ice driver.**
+
+  Updated the Intel ice driver to use write combining stores.
+
 * **Updated Intel qat driver.**
 
   Updated the Intel qat driver to use write combining stores.
@@ -136,6 +146,12 @@ New Features
     ``--portmask=N``
     where N represents the hexadecimal bitmask of ports used.
 
+* **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 ioat rawdev driver**
 
   The ioat rawdev driver has been updated and enhanced. Changes include:
@@ -167,6 +183,11 @@ New Features
   * Extern objects and functions can be plugged into the pipeline.
   * Transaction-oriented table updates.
 
+* **Add new AVX512 specific classify algorithms for ACL library.**
+
+  * Added new ``RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_AVX512X16`` vector implementation,
+    which can process up to 16 flows in parallel. Requires AVX512 support.
+
 
 Removed Items
 -------------
@@ -288,6 +309,10 @@ API Changes
 
 * bpf: ``RTE_BPF_XTYPE_NUM`` has been dropped from ``rte_bpf_xtype``.
 
+* acl: ``RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_NUM`` enum value has been removed.
+  This enum value was not used inside DPDK, while it prevented to add new
+  classify algorithms without causing an ABI breakage.
+
 
 ABI Changes
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