examples/l2fwd-keepalive: add sample application

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_2_2.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
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@@ -4,11 +4,23 @@ DPDK Release 2.2
 New Features
 ------------
 
+* **Introduce ARMv7 and ARMv8 architectures**
+
+  * It is now possible to build DPDK for the ARMv7 and ARMv8 platforms.
+  * ARMv7 can be tested with virtual PMD drivers.
+  * ARMv8 can be tested with virtual and physical PMD drivers.
+
 * **Enabled freeing of ring.**
 
   New function rte_ring_free() allows the user to free a ring
   if it was created with rte_ring_create().
 
+* **Added keepalive support to EAL and example application.**
+
+* **Added ethdev API to support IEEE1588.**
+
+  Added functions to read, write and adjust system time in the NIC.
+
 * **Extended Statistics**
 
   Define extended statistics naming scheme to store metadata in the name
@@ -74,6 +86,10 @@ New Features
   *  Added support for Jumbo Frames.
   *  Optimize forwarding performance for Chelsio T5 40GbE cards.
 
+* **Improved enic Tx packet rate.**
+
+  Reduced frequency of Tx tail pointer updates to the NIC.
+
 * **Added support for Mellanox ConnectX-4 adapters (mlx5).**
 
   The mlx5 poll-mode driver implements support for Mellanox ConnectX-4 EN