net/ice: enable Rx timestamp on flex descriptor

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_21_11.rst

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@@ -62,9 +62,32 @@ New Features
   * Added bus-level parsing of the devargs syntax.
   * Kept compatibility with the legacy syntax as parsing fallback.
 
+* **Added new RSS offload types for IPv4/L4 checksum in RSS flow.**
+
+  Added macros ETH_RSS_IPV4_CHKSUM and ETH_RSS_L4_CHKSUM, now IPv4 and
+  TCP/UDP/SCTP header checksum field can be used as input set for RSS.
+
+* **Updated Broadcom bnxt PMD.**
+
+  * Added flow offload support for Thor.
+  * Implement support for tunnel offload.
+  * Updated HWRM API to version 1.10.2.44
+
+* **Updated Intel iavf driver.**
+
+  * Added Intel iavf support on Windows.
+  * Added IPv4 and L4 (TCP/UDP/SCTP) checksum hash support in RSS flow.
+
+* **Updated Intel ice driver.**
+
+  * Added 1PPS out support by a devargs.
+  * Added IPv4 and L4 (TCP/UDP/SCTP) checksum hash support in RSS flow.
+  * Added DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_TIMESTAMP support.
+
 * **Updated Marvell cnxk ethdev driver.**
 
   * Added rte_flow support for dual VLAN insert and strip actions.
+  * Added rte_tm support.
 
 * **Updated Marvell cnxk crypto PMD.**
 
@@ -103,6 +126,8 @@ New Features
   * Added tests to verify IV generation.
   * Added tests to verify UDP encapsulation.
   * Added tests to validate packets soft expiry.
+  * Added tests to validate packets hard expiry.
+  * Added tests to verify tunnel header verification in IPsec inbound.
 
 
 Removed Items
@@ -124,6 +149,10 @@ Removed Items
   blacklist/whitelist are removed. Users must use the new
   block/allow list arguments.
 
+* i40e: Removed i40evf driver.
+  iavf already became the default VF driver for i40e devices,
+  so there is no need to maintain i40evf.
+
 
 API Changes
 -----------
@@ -140,6 +169,10 @@ API Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =======================================================
 
+* kvargs: The experimental function ``rte_kvargs_strcmp()`` has been
+  removed. Its usages have been replaced by a new function
+  ``rte_kvargs_get_with_value()``.
+
 * cryptodev: The API rte_cryptodev_pmd_is_valid_dev is modified to
   rte_cryptodev_is_valid_dev as it can be used by the application as
   well as PMD to check whether the device is valid or not.
@@ -179,6 +212,10 @@ ABI Changes
   ``rte_security_ipsec_sa_options`` to disable IV generation inside PMD,
   so that application can provide its own IV and test known test vectors.
 
+* security: A new option ``tunnel_hdr_verify`` was added in structure
+  ``rte_security_ipsec_sa_options`` to indicate whether outer header
+  verification need to be done as part of inbound IPsec processing.
+
 * security: A new structure ``rte_security_ipsec_lifetime`` was added to
   replace ``esn_soft_limit`` in IPsec configuration structure
   ``rte_security_ipsec_xform`` to allow applications to configure SA soft