kvargs: add function to get from key and value

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

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@@ -62,6 +62,21 @@ 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 ice driver.**
+
+  * Added 1PPS out support by a devargs.
+
 * **Updated Marvell cnxk ethdev driver.**
 
   * Added rte_flow support for dual VLAN insert and strip actions.
@@ -102,6 +117,9 @@ New Features
   * Added tests to verify error reporting with ICV corruption.
   * 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
@@ -139,6 +157,10 @@ 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 Its usages have been replaced by a new function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.
@@ -178,6 +200,10 @@ 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