ethdev: introduce flow sample action

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

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@@ -68,6 +68,15 @@ New Features
   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.
@@ -79,6 +88,18 @@ 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.
+
+* **Added flow-based traffic sampling support.**
+
+  Added new action: ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SAMPLE`` to duplicate the matching
+  packets with specified ratio, and apply with own set of actions with a fate
+  action. When the ratio is set to 1 then the packets will be 100% mirrored.
+
 * **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.**
 
   Updated the Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including:
@@ -86,6 +107,7 @@ New Features
   * Added support for 200G PAM4 link speed.
   * Added support for RSS hash level selection.
   * Updated HWRM structures to 1.10.1.70 version.
+  * Added TRUFLOW support for Stingray devices.
 
 * **Updated Cisco enic driver.**
 
@@ -127,6 +149,11 @@ New Features
 
   Updated the Intel qat driver to use write combining stores.
 
+* **Updated Memif PMD.**
+
+  * Added support for abstract socket address.
+  * Changed default socket address type to abstract.
+
 * **Added Ice Lake (Gen4) support for Intel NTB.**
 
   Added NTB device support (4th generation) for Intel Ice Lake platform.
@@ -147,7 +174,7 @@ New Features
   * Added flag action.
   * Added raw encap/decap actions.
   * Added VXLAN encap/decap actions.
-  * Added ICMP and ICMP6 matching items.
+  * Added ICMP(code/type/identifier/sequence number) and ICMP6(code/type) matching items.
   * Added option to set port mask for insertion/deletion:
     ``--portmask=N``
     where N represents the hexadecimal bitmask of ports used.
@@ -203,12 +230,22 @@ New Features
   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:
@@ -344,7 +381,13 @@ API Changes
 
 * ethdev: ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_done()`` API has been deprecated.
 
-* Renamed internal ethdev APIs:
+* 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()``
@@ -356,9 +399,17 @@ API Changes
 
 * 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
@@ -370,6 +421,10 @@ 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.
 
@@ -449,6 +504,13 @@ ABI Changes
 
   * ``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``.