examples/ip_pipeline: update release notes

[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 bdda578..dedf503 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ New Features
 
 * **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.**
@@ -132,6 +136,10 @@ New Features
 
   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
@@ -172,6 +180,39 @@ New Features
   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
 ---------------
@@ -343,6 +384,16 @@ Drivers
   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.
@@ -399,6 +450,18 @@ Known Issues
   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
 -----------
@@ -475,6 +538,17 @@ ABI Changes
 * 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
 -----------------------
@@ -509,4 +583,4 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_sched.so.1
    + librte_table.so.2
      librte_timer.so.1
-     librte_vhost.so.1
+   + librte_vhost.so.2