szedata2: add new poll mode driver

[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
index b7ab27a..4fea433 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
@@ -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
@@ -47,6 +59,8 @@ New Features
 
 * **Added i40e vector RX/TX.**
 
+* **Added i40e Rx interrupt support.**
+
 * **Added i40e flow control support.**
 
 * **Added DCB support to i40e PF driver.**
@@ -55,6 +69,8 @@ New Features
 
 * **Added different GRE key length for input set on Intel X710/XL710.**
 
+* **Added flow director support in i40e VF.**
+
 * **Added fm10k vector RX/TX.**
 
 * **Added fm10k TSO support for both PF and VF.**
@@ -70,6 +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
@@ -78,6 +98,11 @@ New Features
   Like mlx4, this PMD is only available for Linux and is disabled by default
   due to external dependencies (libibverbs and libmlx5).
 
+* **Added virtual szedata2 driver for COMBO cards.**
+
+  Added virtual PMD for COMBO-100G and COMBO-80G cards.
+  PMD is disabled in default configuration.
+
 * **Enhanced support for virtio driver.**
 
   * Virtio ring layout optimization (fixed avail ring)
@@ -112,6 +137,10 @@ Drivers
   in Intel I210 NIC, as EtherType in RX descriptor is in bits 8:10 of
   Packet Type and not in the default bits 0:2.
 
+* **igb: Fixed VF start with PF stopped.**
+
+  VF needs the PF interrupt support initialized even if not started.
+
 * **ixgbe: Fixed issue with X550 DCB.**
 
   Fixed a DCB issue with x550 where for 8 TCs (Traffic Classes), if a packet
@@ -122,6 +151,17 @@ Drivers
 
   Fixed issue where a burst size less than 32 didn't receive anything.
 
+* **ixgbe: Fixed VF start with PF stopped.**
+
+  VF needs the PF interrupt support initialized even if not started.
+
+* **ixgbe: Fixed TX hang when RS distance exceeds HW limit.**
+
+  Fixed an issue when TX queue can hang when a lot of highly fragmented
+  packets have to be sent.
+  As part of that fix, tx_rs_thresh for ixgbe PMD is not allowed to be greater
+  then to 32 to comply with HW restrictions.
+
 * **i40e: Fixed base driver allocation when not using first numa node.**
 
   Fixed i40e issue that occurred when a DPDK application didn't initialize
@@ -138,6 +178,11 @@ Drivers
 
   Added discarding packets on VSI to the stats and rectify the old statistics.
 
+* **i40e: Fixed issue of not freeing memzone.**
+
+  Fixed the issue of not freeing memzone in the call to free the memory for
+  adminq DMA.
+
 * **vhost: Fixed Qemu shutdown.**
 
   Fixed issue with libvirt ``virsh destroy`` not killing the VM.
@@ -150,11 +195,6 @@ Drivers
 
   Fixed issue when releasing null control queue.
 
-* **hash: Fixed thread scaling by reducing contention.**
-
-  Fixed issue in hash library where, using multiple cores with
-  hardware transactional memory support, thread scaling did not work,
-  due to the global ring that is shared by all cores.
 
 Libraries
 ~~~~~~~~~
@@ -170,6 +210,12 @@ Libraries
   key was not added in the table and the key was looked up,
   resulting in an incorrect hit.
 
+* **hash: Fixed thread scaling by reducing contention.**
+
+  Fixed issue in hash library where, using multiple cores with
+  hardware transactional memory support, thread scaling did not work,
+  due to the global ring that is shared by all cores.
+
 
 Examples
 ~~~~~~~~
@@ -219,6 +265,9 @@ ABI Changes
 * The ethdev flow director entries for SCTP were changed.
   It was already done in 2.1 for CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.
 
+* The ethdev flow director structure rte_eth_fdir_flow_ext structure is changed.
+  New fields are added to support flow director filtering in VF.
+
 * The size of the ethdev structure rte_eth_hash_filter_info is changed
   by adding a new element rte_eth_input_set_conf in an union.