ethdev: introduce flow sample action

[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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--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
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@@ -94,6 +94,12 @@ New Features
   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:
@@ -101,6 +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.**
 
@@ -142,6 +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.
@@ -162,7 +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.
@@ -369,7 +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()``