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+* **Added write combining store APIs.**
+
+ Added ``rte_write32_wc`` and ``rte_write32_wc_relaxed`` APIs
+ that enable write combining stores (depending on architecture).
+ The functions are provided as a generic stubs and
+ x86 specific implementation.
+
+* **Added prefetch with intention to write APIs.**
+
+ Added new prefetch function variants e.g. ``rte_prefetch0_write``,
+ which allow the programmer to prefetch a cache line and also indicate
+ the intention to write.
+
+* **Added the rte_cldemote API.**
+
+ Added a hardware hint CLDEMOTE, which is similar to prefetch in reverse.
+ CLDEMOTE moves the cache line to the more remote cache, where it expects
+ sharing to be efficient. Moving the cache line to a level more distant from
+ the processor helps to accelerate core-to-core communication.
+ This API is specific to x86 and implemented as a stub for other
+ architectures.
+
+* **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
+ 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:
+
+ * Added support for 200G PAM4 link speed.
+ * Added support for RSS hash level selection.
+ * Updated HWRM structures to 1.10.1.70 version.
+
+* **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
+
+* **Added hns3 FEC PMD, for supporting query and config FEC mode.**
+
+ Added the FEC PMD which provides functions for query FEC capabilities and
+ current FEC mode from device. Also, PMD for configuring FEC mode is also provided.
+
+* **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
+
+ Updated the Solarflare ``sfc_efx`` driver with changes including:
+
+ * Added SR-IOV PF support
+
+* **Updated Virtio driver.**
+
+ * Added support for Vhost-vDPA backend to Virtio-user PMD.
+ * Changed default link speed to unknown.
+ * Added support for 200G link speed.
+
+* **Updated Intel i40e driver.**
+
+ Updated the Intel i40e driver to use write combining stores.
+
+* **Updated Intel ixgbe driver.**
+
+ 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.
+
+* **Added Ice Lake (Gen4) support for Intel NTB.**
+
+ Added NTB device support (4th generation) for Intel Ice Lake platform.
+
+* **Added UDP/IPv4 GRO support for VxLAN and non-VxLAN packets.**
+
+ For VxLAN packets, added inner UDP/IPv4 support.
+ For non-VxLAN packets, added UDP/IPv4 support.
+
+* **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.
+
+* **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.
+ * Added support for ZUC-EEA3/EIA3 algorithms.
+ * 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.**
+
+ * Added SGL support for AES-GMAC.
+
+* **Added Broadcom BCMFS symmetric crypto PMD.**
+
+ Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Broadcom FlexSparc crypto units.
+ See :doc:`../cryptodevs/bcmfs` guide for more details on this new PMD.
+
+* **Updated DPAA2_SEC crypto PMD.**
+
+ * Added DES-CBC support for cipher_only, chain and ipsec protocol.
+ * Added support for non-HMAC auth algorithms
+ (MD5, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512).
+
+* **Updated Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.**
+
+ * Added AES-GCM support.
+ * Added cipher only offload support.
+
+* **Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.**
+
+ * 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:
+
+ * Added support for Intel\ |reg| Data Streaming Accelerator hardware.
+ For more information, see https://01.org/blogs/2019/introducing-intel-data-streaming-accelerator
+ * Added support for the fill operation via the API ``rte_ioat_enqueue_fill()``,
+ where the hardware fills an area of memory with a repeating pattern.
+ * Added a per-device configuration flag to disable management
+ of user-provided completion handles.
+ * Renamed the ``rte_ioat_do_copies()`` API to ``rte_ioat_perform_ops()``,
+ and renamed the ``rte_ioat_completed_copies()`` API to ``rte_ioat_completed_ops()``
+ to better reflect the APIs' purposes, and remove the implication that
+ they are limited to copy operations only.
+ [Note: The old API is still provided but marked as deprecated in the code]
+ * Added a new API ``rte_ioat_fence()`` to add a fence between operations.
+ This API replaces the ``fence`` flag parameter in the ``rte_ioat_enqueue_copies()`` function,
+ and is clearer as there is no ambiguity as to whether the flag should be
+ set on the last operation before the fence or the first operation after it.
+
+* **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.
+
+* **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.
+
+ * Added new ``RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_AVX512X32`` vector implementation,
+ which can process up to 32 flows in parallel. Requires AVX512 support.
+
+* **Added support to update subport bandwidth dynamically.**
+
+ * Added new API ``rte_sched_port_subport_profile_add`` to add new
+ subport bandwidth profile to subport porfile table at runtime.
+
+ * Added support to update subport rate dynamically.
+
+* **Updated FIPS validation sample application.**
+
+ * Added scatter gather support.
+ * Added NIST GCMVS complaint GMAC test method support.
+
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+* vhost: Dequeue zero-copy support has been removed.
+
+* kernel: The module ``igb_uio`` has been moved to the git repository
+ ``dpdk-kmods`` in a new directory ``linux/igb_uio``.
+
+* Removed Python 2 support since it was EOL'd in January 2020.
API Changes
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+* 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.
* ethdev: Removed the ``kdrv`` field in the ethdev ``rte_eth_dev_data``
structure as it gave no useful abstracted information to the applications.
+* ethdev: ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_done()`` API has been deprecated.
+
+* ethdev: Renamed basic statistics per queue. An underscore is inserted
+ between the queue number and the rest of the xstat name:
+
+ * ``rx_qN*`` -> ``rx_qN_*``
+ * ``tx_qN*`` -> ``tx_qN_*``
+
+* ethdev: Renamed internal functions:
+
+ * ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process()`` -> ``rte_eth_dev_callback_process()``
+ * ``_rte_eth_dev_reset`` -> ``rte_eth_dev_internal_reset()``
+
+* ethdev: Modified field type of ``base`` and ``nb_queue`` in struct
+ ``rte_eth_dcb_tc_queue_mapping`` from ``uint8_t`` to ``uint16_t``.
+ As the data of ``uint8_t`` will be truncated when queue number under
+ a TC is greater than 256.
+
+* vhost: Moved vDPA APIs from experimental to stable.
+
+* vhost: Add a new function ``rte_vhost_crypto_driver_start`` to be called
+ instead of ``rte_vhost_driver_start`` by crypto applications.
+
+* 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
+ ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_worker_attach``,
+ ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_worker_detach`` and
+ ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_workers_get`` accordingly.
+
+* scheduler: Renamed the configuration value
+ ``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.
+
+* baseband/fpga_lte_fec: Renamed function ``fpga_lte_fec_configure`` to
+ ``rte_fpga_lte_fec_configure`` and structure ``fpga_lte_fec_conf`` to
+ ``rte_fpga_lte_fec_conf``.
+
+* baseband/fpga_5gnr_fec: Renamed function ``fpga_5gnr_fec_configure`` to
+ ``rte_fpga_5gnr_fec_configure`` and structure ``fpga_5gnr_fec_conf`` to
+ ``rte_fpga_5gnr_fec_conf``.
+
* rawdev: Added a structure size parameter to the functions
``rte_rawdev_queue_setup()``, ``rte_rawdev_queue_conf_get()``,
``rte_rawdev_info_get()`` and ``rte_rawdev_configure()``,
and the function ``rte_rawdev_queue_conf_get()``
from ``void`` to ``int`` allowing the return of error codes from drivers.
+* rawdev: The running of a drivers ``selftest()`` function can now be done
+ using the ``rawdev_autotest`` command in the ``dpdk-test`` binary. This
+ command now calls the self-test function for each rawdev found on the
+ system, and does not require a specific command per device type.
+ Following this change, the ``ioat_rawdev_autotest`` command has been
+ removed as no longer needed.
+
+* raw/ioat: As noted above, the ``rte_ioat_do_copies()`` and
+ ``rte_ioat_completed_copies()`` functions have been renamed to
+ ``rte_ioat_perform_ops()`` and ``rte_ioat_completed_ops()`` respectively.
+
+* stack: the experimental tag has been dropped from the stack library, and its
+ interfaces are considered stable as of DPDK 20.11.
+
* 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.
+
+* sched: Added ``subport_profile_id`` as argument
+ to function ``rte_sched_subport_config``.
+
+* sched: Removed ``tb_rate``, ``tc_rate``, ``tc_period`` and ``tb_size``
+ from ``struct rte_sched_subport_params``.
+
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+* eal: Removed the not implemented function ``rte_dump_registers()``.
+
+* ``ethdev`` changes
+
+ * Following device operation function pointers moved
+ from ``struct eth_dev_ops`` to ``struct rte_eth_dev``:
+
+ * ``eth_rx_queue_count_t rx_queue_count;``
+ * ``eth_rx_descriptor_done_t rx_descriptor_done;``
+ * ``eth_rx_descriptor_status_t rx_descriptor_status;``
+ * ``eth_tx_descriptor_status_t tx_descriptor_status;``
+
+ * ``struct eth_dev_ops`` is no more accessible by applications,
+ which was already internal data structure.
+
+ * ``ethdev`` internal functions are marked with ``__rte_internal`` tag.
+
+* eventdev: Following structures are modified to support DLB/DLB2 PMDs
+ and future extensions:
+
+ * ``rte_event_dev_info``
+ * ``rte_event_dev_config``
+ * ``rte_event_port_conf``
+
+* sched: Added new fields to ``struct rte_sched_subport_port_params``.
+
Known Issues
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