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 experimental cryptodev API**
+
+ The cryptographic processing of packet is provided as a preview
+ with two drivers for:
+
+ * Intel QuickAssist devices
+ * Intel AES-NI multi-buffer library
+
+ Due to its experimental state, the API may change without prior notice.
+
+* **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
+ string name of each statistic, refer to the Extended Statistics section
+ of the programmers guide. Implemented the extended stats API for these
+ PMDs:
+
+ * igb
+ * igbvf
+ * i40e
+ * i40evf
+ * fm10k
+ * virtio
+
+* **Added API in ethdev to retrieve RX/TX queue information.**
+
+ * Add the ability for the upper layer to query RX/TX queue information.
+ * Add into rte_eth_dev_info new fields to represent information about
+ RX/TX descriptors min/max/align numbers per queue for the device.
+
+* **Added RSS dynamic configuration to bonding.**
+
+* **Updated the e1000 base driver.**
+
+ The e1000 base driver was updated with several features including the
+ following:
+
+ * Add new i218 devices
+ * Allow both ULP and EEE in Sx state
+ * Initialize 88E1543 (Marvell 1543) PHY
+ * Add flags to set EEE advertisement modes
+ * Support inverted format ETrackId
+ * Add bit to disable packetbuffer read
+ * Add defaults for i210 Rx/Tx PBSIZE
+ * Check more errors for ESB2 init and reset
+ * Check more NVM read errors
+ * Return code after setting receive address register
+ * Remove all NAHUM6LP_HW tags
+
* **Added e1000 Rx interrupt support.**
* **Added igb TSO support for both PF and VF.**
* Add 2 new flow director modes on x550.
* One is MAC VLAN mode, the other is tunnel mode.
+* **Updated the i40e base driver.**
+
+ The i40e base driver was updated with several changes including the
+ following:
+
+ * Added promiscuous on VLAN support
+ * Added a workaround to drop all flow control frames
+ * Added VF capabilities to virtual channel interface
+ * Added Tx Scheduling related AQ commands
+ * Added additional PCTYPES supported for FortPark RSS
+ * Added parsing for CEE DCBX TLVs
+ * Added FortPark specific registers
+ * Added AQ functions to handle RSS Key and LUT programming
+ * Increased pf reset max loop limit
+
* **Added i40e vector RX/TX.**
+* **Added i40e Rx interrupt support.**
+
* **Added i40e flow control support.**
* **Added DCB support to i40e PF driver.**
+* **Added RSS/FD input set granularity on Intel X710/XL710.**
+
+* **Added different GRE key length for input set on Intel X710/XL710.**
+
+* **Added flow director support in i40e VF.**
+
+* **Added i40e support of early X722 series.**
+
+ Add early X722 support for evaluation only, as the hardware is in A0.
+
+* **Added fm10k vector RX/TX.**
+
* **Added fm10k TSO support for both PF and VF.**
* **Added fm10k VMDQ support.**
* 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 link status interrupts in mlx4.**
+
+* **Added partial support (TX only) for secondary processes in mlx4.**
+
* **Added support for Mellanox ConnectX-4 adapters (mlx5).**
The mlx5 poll-mode driver implements support for Mellanox ConnectX-4 EN
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.
+ PMD is disabled in default configuration.
+
+* **Enhanced support for virtio driver.**
+
+ * Virtio ring layout optimization (fixed avail ring)
+ * Vector RX
+ * Simple TX
+
* **Added vhost-user multiple queue support.**
+* **Added port hotplug support to vmxnet3.**
+
* **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.
+
+* **IP pipeline application**
+
+ The following features have been added to ip_pipeline
+ application;
+
+ * Added Multiple Producers Multiple Consumers (MPSC)
+ and fragmentation/reassembly support to software rings.
+
+ * Added dynamic pipeline reconfiguration feature that
+ allows binding pipeline to other threads at runtime
+ using CLI commands.
+
+ * Added Enable/disable of promisc mode from ip_pipeline
+ configuration file.
+
+ * Added check on rx queues and tx queues of each link
+ whether they are used correctly in ip_pipeline
+ configuration file.
+
+ * Added flow id parameters to the flow-classification
+ table entries.
+
+ * Added more functions to the routing pipeline:
+ ARP table enable/disable, Q-in-Q and MPLS encapsulation,
+ add colour (Traffic-class for QoS) to the MPLS tag.
+
+ * Added flow-actions pipeline for traffic metering/marking
+ (for e.g. Two Rate Three Color Marker (trTCM)), policer etc.
+
+ * Modified the pass-through pipeline's actions-handler to
+ implement a generic approach to extract fields from the
+ packet's header and copying them to packet metadata.
+
Resolved Issues
---------------
Drivers
~~~~~~~
+* **e1000/base: Synchronize PHY interface on non-ME systems.**
+
+ On power up, the MAC - PHY interface needs to be set to PCIe, even if
+ cable is disconnected. In ME systems, the ME handles this on exit from
+ Sx(Sticky mode) state. In non-ME, the driver handles it. Add a check
+ for non-ME system to the driver code that handles that.
+
+* **e1000/base: Increase timeout of reset check.**
+
+ Previously, in check_reset_block RSPCIPHY was polled for 100 ms before
+ determining that the ME veto is set. It's not enough. It need to be increased
+ to 300 ms.
+
+* **e1000/base: Disable IPv6 extension header parsing on 82575.**
+
+ Disable IPv6 options as per hardware limitation.
+
+* **e1000/base: Prevent ULP flow if cable connected.**
+
+ Enabling ulp on link down when cable is connect caused an infinite
+ loop of linkup/down indications in the NDIS driver.
+ After discussed, correct flow is to enable ULP only when cable is
+ disconnected.
+
+* **e1000/base: Support different EEARBC for i210.**
+
+ EEARBC has changed on i210. It means EEARBC has a different address on
+ i210 than on other NICs. So, add a new entity named EEARBC_I210 to the
+ register list and make sure the right one is being used on i210.
+
+* **e1000/base: Fix K1 configuration**
+
+ This patch is for the following updates to the K1 configurations:
+ Tx idle period for entering K1 should be 128 ns.
+ Minimum Tx idle period in K1 should be 256 ns.
+
+* **e1000/base: Fix link detect flow**
+
+ In case that auto-negotiate is not enabled, call
+ e1000_setup_copper_link_generic instead of e1000_phy_setup_autoneg.
+
+* **e1000/base: Fix link check for i354 M88E1112 PHY**
+
+ e1000_check_for_link_media_swap() is supposed to check PHY page 0 for
+ copper and PHY page 1 for "other" (fiber) link. We switched back from
+ page 1 to page 0 too soon, before e1000_check_for_link_82575() is
+ executed and we were never finding link on fiber (other).
+
+ If the link is copper, as the M88E1112 page address is set to 1, it should be
+ set back to 0 before checking this link.
+
+* **e1000/base: Fix beacon duration for i217**
+
+ Fix for I217 Packet Loss issue - The Management Engine sets the FEXTNVM4
+ Beacon Duration incorrectly. This fix ensures that the correct value will
+ always be set. Correct value for this field is 8 usec.
+
+* **e1000/base: Fix TIPG for non 10 half duplex mode**
+
+ TIPG value is increased when setting speed to 10 half to prevent
+ packet loss. However, it was never decreased again when speed
+ changes. This caused performance issues in the NDIS driver.
+ Fix this to restore TIPG to default value on non 10 half.
+
+* **e1000/base: Fix reset of DH89XXCC SGMII**
+
+ For DH89XXCC_SGMII, write flush leaves registers of this device trashed
+ (0xFFFFFFFF). Add check for this device.
+ Also, after both for Port SW Reset and Device Reset case, platform should
+ wait at least 3ms before reading any registers. Since waiting is
+ conditionally executed only for Device Reset - remove the condition.
+
+* **e1000/base: Fix redundant PHY power down for i210**
+
+ Bit 11 of PHYREG 0 is used to power down PHY. The use of PHYREG 16 is
+ unnecessary any more.
+
+* **e1000/base: fix jumbo frame CRC failures**
+
+ Change the value of register 776.20[11:2] for jumbo mode from 0x1A to 0x1F.
+ This is to enlarge the gap between read and write pointers in the TX Fifo.
+ And replace the magic number with a macro by the way.
+
+* **e1000/base: Fix link flap on 82579**
+
+ Several customers have reported a link flap issue on 82579. The symptoms
+ are random and intermittent link losses when 82579 is connected to specific
+ switches. Issue has been root caused as interoperability problem between
+ the NIC and at least some Broadcom PHYs in the Energy Efficient Ethernet
+ wake mechanism.
+ To fix the issue, we are disabling the Phase Locked Loop shutdown in 100M
+ Low Power Idle. This solution will cause an increase of power in 100M EEE
+ link. It may cost additional 28mW in this specific mode.
+
* **igb: Fixed IEEE1588 frame identification in I210.**
Fixed issue where the flag PKT_RX_IEEE1588_PTP was not being set
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.
+
+* **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
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
ports if memory wasn't available on socket 0.
+* **i40e: Fixed maximum of 64 queues per port.**
+
+ Fixed the issue in i40e of cannot supporting more than 64 queues per port,
+ though hardware actually supports that. The real number of queues may vary,
+ as long as the total number of queues used in PF, VFs, VMDq and FD does not
+ exceeds the hardware maximum.
+
+* **i40e: Fixed statistics of packets.**
+
+ 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.
+
+* **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.
+
+* **mlx4: Performance improvements.**
+
+ Fixed bugs in TX and RX flows that improves mlx4 performance.
+
+* **mlx4: Fixed Tx loss after initialization.**
+
+* **mlx4: Fixed scattered Tx with too many segments.**
+
+* **mlx4: Fixed memory registration for indirect mbuf data.**
+
* **vhost: Fixed Qemu shutdown.**
Fixed issue with libvirt ``virsh destroy`` not killing the VM.
Fixed issue where an incorrect Cuckoo Hash key table size could be
calculated limiting the size to 4GB.
+* **hash: Fixed incorrect lookup if key is all zero.**
+
+ Fixed issue in hash library that occurred if an all zero
+ 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
~~~~~~~~
+* **l3fwd: Fixed crash with IPv6.**
+
+* **vhost_xen: Fixed compile error.**
+
Other
~~~~~
+* This release drops compatibility with Linux kernel 2.6.33. The minimum
+ kernel requirement is now 2.6.34.
+
Known Issues
------------
+* Some drivers do not fill the packet type when receiving.
+ As the l3fwd example application requires this info, the i40e vector
+ driver must be disabled to benefit of the packet type with i40e.
+
+* **Mellanox PMDs (mlx4 & mlx5):**
+
+ * PMDs do not support DPDK integrated shared library.
+
+ * There is performance degradation for small packets when PMD
+ is compiled with SGE_WR_N = 4 compared to the performance when SGE_WR_N = 1.
+ If scattered packets are not used it is recomended
+ to compile PMD with SGE_WR_N = 1.
+
+ * When a Multicast or Broadcast packet is sent to the SR-IOV mlx4 VF,
+ it is returned back to the port.
+
API Changes
-----------
structures: rte_eth_dcb_rx_conf, rte_eth_dcb_tx_conf,
rte_eth_vmdq_dcb_conf, rte_eth_vmdq_dcb_tx_conf.
+* The rte_eth_rx_queue_count() function now returns "int" instead of "uint32_t"
+ to allow the use of negative values as error codes on return.
+
* The function rte_eal_pci_close_one() is removed.
It was replaced by rte_eal_pci_detach().
* The devargs union field virtual is renamed to virt for C++ compatibility.
-
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.
+
+* The new fields rx_desc_lim and tx_desc_lim are added into rte_eth_dev_info
+ structure.
+
+* For debug builds, the functions rte_eth_rx_burst(), rte_eth_tx_burst()
+ rte_eth_rx_descriptor_done() and rte_eth_rx_queue_count() will
+ no longer be separate functions in the DPDK libraries. Instead, they will
+ only be present in the rte_ethdev.h header file.
+
+* The maximum number of queues per port CONFIG_RTE_MAX_QUEUES_PER_PORT is
+ increased to 1024.
+
* The mbuf structure was changed to support unified packet type.
It was already done in 2.1 for CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.
* 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.
* librte_cfgfile: Allow longer names and values by increasing the constants
CFG_NAME_LEN and CFG_VALUE_LEN to 64 and 256 respectively.
+* vhost: a new field enabled is added to the vhost_virtqueue structure.
+
+* vhost: a new field virt_qp_nb is added to virtio_net structure, and the
+ virtqueue field is moved to the end of virtio_net structure.
+
+* vhost: a new operation vring_state_changed is added to virtio_net_device_ops
+ structure.
+
+* vhost: a few spaces are reserved both at vhost_virtqueue and virtio_net
+ structure for future extension.
+
Shared Library Versions
-----------------------
+ 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
librte_sched.so.1
+ librte_table.so.2
librte_timer.so.1
- librte_vhost.so.1
+ + librte_vhost.so.2
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