ethdev: add IPv4 and L4 checksum RSS offload types

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

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
index ae62df8..568577c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ 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 Marvell cnxk ethdev driver.**
 
   * Added rte_flow support for dual VLAN insert and strip actions.
@@ -103,6 +108,8 @@ 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
@@ -179,6 +186,10 @@ 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