net/iavf: support PPPoL2TPv2oUDP RSS Hash

[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
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@@ -75,6 +75,17 @@ New Features
     operations.
   * Added multi-process support.
 
+* **Added IDXD dmadev driver implementation.**
+
+  The IDXD dmadev driver provide device drivers for the Intel DSA devices.
+  This device driver can be used through the generic dmadev API.
+
+* **Added IOAT dmadev driver implementation.**
+
+  The Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (IOAT) dmadev driver provides a device
+  driver for Intel IOAT devices such as Crystal Beach DMA (CBDMA) on Ice Lake,
+  Skylake and Broadwell. This device driver can be used through the generic dmadev API.
+
 * **Added support to get all MAC addresses of a device.**
 
   Added ``rte_eth_macaddrs_get`` to allow user to retrieve all Ethernet
@@ -85,6 +96,10 @@ New Features
   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.
 
+* **Added L2TPv2 and PPP protocol support in flow API.**
+
+  Added flow pattern items and header formats of L2TPv2 and PPP protocol.
+
 * **Added flow flex item.**
 
   The configurable flow flex item provides the capability to introduce
@@ -137,6 +152,7 @@ New Features
 
   * Added Intel iavf support on Windows.
   * Added IPv4 and L4 (TCP/UDP/SCTP) checksum hash support in RSS flow.
+  * Added PPPoL2TPv2oUDP RSS hash based on inner IP address and TCP/UDP port.
 
 * **Updated Intel ice driver.**
 
@@ -240,6 +256,18 @@ New Features
   * Added tests to verify tunnel header verification in IPsec inbound.
   * Added tests to verify inner checksum.
 
+* **Revised packet capture framework.**
+
+  * New dpdk-dumpcap program that has most of the features
+    of the wireshark dumpcap utility including:
+    capture of multiple interfaces, filtering,
+    and stopping after number of bytes, packets.
+  * New library for writing pcapng packet capture files.
+  * Enhancements to the pdump library to support:
+    * Packet filter with BPF.
+    * Pcapng format with timestamps and meta-data.
+    * Fixes packet capture with stripped VLAN tags.
+
 
 Removed Items
 -------------
@@ -302,6 +330,14 @@ API Changes
   removed. Its usages have been replaced by a new function
   ``rte_kvargs_get_with_value()``.
 
+* cmdline: ``cmdline_stdin_exit()`` now frees the ``cmdline`` structure.
+  Calls to ``cmdline_free()`` after it need to be deleted from applications.
+
+* cmdline: Made ``cmdline`` structure definition hidden on Linux and FreeBSD.
+
+* cmdline: Made ``rdline`` structure definition hidden. Functions are added
+  to dynamically allocate and free it, and to access user data in callbacks.
+
 * mempool: Added ``RTE_MEMPOOL_F_NON_IO`` flag to give a hint to DPDK components
   that objects from this pool will not be used for device IO (e.g. DMA).
 
@@ -363,6 +399,9 @@ API Changes
 
 * bbdev: Added device info related to data byte endianness processing.
 
+* eventdev: Moved memory used by timer adapters to hugepage. This will prevent
+  TLB misses if any and aligns to memory structure of other subsystems.
+
 
 ABI Changes
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