examples/performance-thread: mark as experimental

[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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--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
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@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ New Features
   Like mlx4, this PMD is only available for Linux and is disabled by default
   due to external dependencies (libibverbs and libmlx5).
 
+* **Added driver for Netronome nfp-6xxx card.**
+
+  Support for using Netronome nfp-6xxx with PCI VFs.
+
 * **Added virtual szedata2 driver for COMBO cards.**
 
   Added virtual PMD for COMBO-100G and COMBO-80G cards.
@@ -125,6 +129,17 @@ New Features
 
 * **Added port hotplug support to xenvirt.**
 
+* **Added ethtool shim and sample application.**
+
+* **Added experimental performance thread example application.**
+
+  The application demonstrates L3 fowarding with different threading
+  models: pthreads, cgroups, or lighweight threads. The example inludes
+  a simple cooperative scheduler.
+
+  Due to its experimental state this application may change without notice.
+  The application is supported only for Linux x86_64.
+
 
 Resolved Issues
 ---------------
@@ -151,6 +166,10 @@ Drivers
 
   VF needs the PF interrupt support initialized even if not started.
 
+* **igb: Fixed VF MAC address when using with DPDK PF.**
+
+  Assign a random MAC address in VF when not assigned by PF.
+
 * **ixgbe: Fixed issue with X550 DCB.**
 
   Fixed a DCB issue with x550 where for 8 TCs (Traffic Classes), if a packet
@@ -193,6 +212,11 @@ Drivers
   Fixed the issue of not freeing memzone in the call to free the memory for
   adminq DMA.
 
+* **mlx: Fixed driver loading.**
+
+  The mlx drivers were unable to load when built as a shared library,
+  due to a missing symbol in mempool library.
+
 * **vhost: Fixed Qemu shutdown.**
 
   Fixed issue with libvirt ``virsh destroy`` not killing the VM.
@@ -230,6 +254,10 @@ Libraries
 Examples
 ~~~~~~~~
 
+* **l3fwd: Fixed crash with IPv6.**
+
+* **vhost_xen: Fixed compile error.**
+
 
 Other
 ~~~~~
@@ -308,6 +336,10 @@ ABI Changes
 * librte_table LPM: A new parameter to hold the table name will be added to
   the LPM table parameter structure.
 
+* librte_table hash: The key mask parameter is added to the hash table
+  parameter structure for 8-byte key and 16-byte key extendible bucket
+  and LRU tables.
+
 * librte_port: Macros to access the packet meta-data stored within the packet
   buffer has been adjusted to cover the packet mbuf structure.
 
@@ -338,7 +370,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
    + librte_mbuf.so.2
      librte_mempool.so.1
      librte_meter.so.1
-     librte_pipeline.so.1
+   + librte_pipeline.so.2
      librte_pmd_bond.so.1
    + librte_pmd_ring.so.2
    + librte_port.so.2