X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_20_02.rst;h=dfebc467e0d57aa428284c3354de48d4de01eb50;hb=36fc5710743889be7e8cdef0aeeced35c6c229ab;hp=a7a82889733c3f792d794e7484f8ed99f7e97ad9;hpb=2a10630354772bd093a1c81c474a68b581b759e8;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst index a7a8288973..dfebc467e0 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst @@ -61,10 +61,25 @@ New Features A new API has been added to wait for a memory location to be updated with a 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit value. +* **Added rte_ring_xxx_elem APIs.** + + New APIs have been added to support rings with custom element size. + * **Updated rte_flow api to support L2TPv3 over IP flows.** Added support for new flow item to handle L2TPv3 over IP rte_flow patterns. +* **Added IONIC net PMD.** + + Added the new ``ionic`` net driver for Pensando Ethernet Network Adapters. + See the :doc:`../nics/ionic` NIC guide for more details on this new driver. + +* **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver** + + Updated Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added support for MARK action. + * **Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver.** Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver with new features and improvements, including: @@ -79,6 +94,7 @@ New Features * Added support for MAC rules on specific port. * Added support for MAC/VLAN with TCP/UDP in switch rule. * Added support for 1/10G device. + * Added support for API rte_eth_tx_done_cleanup. * **Updated Intel iavf driver.** @@ -87,6 +103,12 @@ New Features * Added more supported device IDs. * Updated virtual channel to latest AVF spec. +* **Updated the Intel ixgbe driver.** + + * Added support for API rte_eth_tx_done_cleanup. + * Added support setting VF MAC address by PF driver. + * Added support for setting the link to specific speed. + * **Updated Intel i40e driver.** Updated i40e PMD with new features and improvements, including: @@ -99,13 +121,32 @@ New Features * Added LLDP support. * Extended PHY access AQ cmd. * Added support for reading LPI counters. - * Added support for Energy Efficient Ethernet + * Added support for Energy Efficient Ethernet. + * Added support for API rte_eth_tx_done_cleanup. + * Added support for VF multiple queues interrupt. + * Added support for setting the link to specific speed. * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.** Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including: * Added support for RSS using L3/L4 source/destination only. + * Added support for matching on GTP tunnel header item. + * Removed limitation of matching on tagged/untagged packets (when using DV flow engine). + * Added BlueField-2 integrated ConnectX-6 Dx device support. + +* **Add new vDPA PMD based on Mellanox devices** + + Added a new Mellanox vDPA (``mlx5_vdpa``) PMD. + See the :doc:`../vdpadevs/mlx5` guide for more details on this driver. + +* **Added support for virtio-PMD notification data.** + + Added support for virtio-PMD notification data so that the driver + passes extra data (besides identifying the virtqueue) in its device + notifications, expanding the notifications to include the avail index and + avail wrap counter (When split ring is used, the avail wrap counter is not + included in the notification data). * **Updated testpmd application.** @@ -114,12 +155,19 @@ New Features * **Added algorithms to cryptodev API.** - * Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm can now be supported in cryptodev. * ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) is added to asymmetric crypto library specifications. * ECPM (Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication) is added to asymmetric crypto library specifications. +* **Added synchronous Crypto burst API.** + + A new API is introduced in crypto library to handle synchronous cryptographic + operations allowing to achieve performance gain for cryptodevs which use + CPU based acceleration, such as Intel AES-NI. An implementation for aesni_gcm + cryptodev is provided. The IPsec example application and ipsec library itself + were changed to allow utilization of this new feature. + * **Added handling of mixed algorithms in encrypted digest requests in QAT PMD.** Added handling of mixed algorithms in encrypted digest hash-cipher @@ -128,9 +176,64 @@ New Features Such algorithm combinations are not supported on GEN1/GEN2 hardware and executing the request returns RTE_CRYPTO_OP_STATUS_INVALID_SESSION. -* **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) symmetric crypto PMD.** +* **Queue-pairs are now thread-safe on Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) PMD.** + + Queue-pairs are thread-safe on Intel CPUs but Queues are not (that is, within + a single queue-pair all enqueues to the TX queue must be done from one thread + and all dequeues from the RX queue must be done from one thread, but enqueues + and dequeues may be done in different threads.). + +* **Updated the ZUC PMD.** + + * Transistioned underlying library from libSSO ZUC to intel-ipsec-mb + library (minimum version required 0.53). + * Removed dynamic library limitation, so PMD can be built as a shared + object now. + +* **Updated the KASUMI PMD.** + + * Transistioned underlying library from libSSO KASUMI to intel-ipsec-mb + library (minimum version required 0.53). + +* **Updated the SNOW3G PMD.** + + * Transistioned underlying library from libSSO SNOW3G to intel-ipsec-mb + library (minimum version required 0.53). + +* **Changed armv8 crypto PMD external dependency.** + + armv8 crypto PMD now depends on Arm crypto library, and Marvell's + armv8 crypto library is not used anymore. Library name is changed + from armv8_crypto to AArch64crypto. + +* **Added inline IPsec support to Marvell OCTEON TX2 PMD.** + + Added inline IPsec support to Marvell OCTEON TX2 PMD. With the feature, + applications would be able to offload entire IPsec offload to the hardware. + For the configured sessions, hardware will do the lookup and perform + decryption and IPsec transformation. For the outbound path, application + can submit a plain packet to the PMD, and it would be sent out on wire + after doing encryption and IPsec transformation of the packet. + +* **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 End Point rawdev PMD.** + + Added a new OCTEON TX2 rawdev PMD for End Point mode of operation. + See the :doc:`../rawdevs/octeontx2_ep` for more details on this new PMD. + +* **Added event mode to l3fwd sample application.** + + Add event device support for ``l3fwd`` sample application. It demonstrates + usage of poll and event mode IO mechanism under a single application. + +* **Added cycle-count mode to the compression performance tool.** + + Enhanced the compression performance tool by adding a cycle-count mode + which can be used to help measure and tune hardware and software PMDs. + +* **Added OpenWrt howto guide.** - Added Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm. + Added document describes how to enable DPDK on OpenWrt in both virtual and + physical machine. Removed Items @@ -145,6 +248,21 @@ Removed Items Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* **Disabled building all the Linux kernel modules by default.** + + In order to remove the build time dependency with Linux kernel, + the Technical Board decided to disable all the kernel modules + by default from 20.02 version. + +* **Removed coalescing feature from Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) PMD.** + + The internal tail write coalescing feature was removed as not compatible with + dual-thread feature. It was replaced with a threshold feature. At busy times + if only a small number of packets can be enqueued, each enqueue causes + an expensive MMIO write. These MMIO write occurrences can be optimised by using + the new threshold parameter on process start. Please see qat documentation for + more details. + API Changes ----------- @@ -213,3 +331,110 @@ Tested Platforms This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it. Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= + +* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Intel\ |reg| NICs combinations + + * CPU + + * Intel\ |reg| Atom\ |trade| CPU C3758 @ 2.20GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Atom\ |trade| CPU C3858 @ 2.00GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Atom\ |trade| CPU C3958 @ 2.00GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU D-1541 @ 2.10GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU D-1553N @ 2.30GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2680 0 @ 2.70GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6139 CPU @ 2.30GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6252N CPU @ 2.30GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Platinum 8180 CPU @ 2.50GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Platinum 8280M CPU @ 2.70GHz + + * OS: + + * CentOS 7.7 + * CentOS 8.0 + * Fedora 31 + * FreeBSD 12.1 + * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 8.0 + * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.7 + * Suse15SP1 + * Ubuntu 14.04 + * Ubuntu 16.04 + * Ubuntu 16.10 + * Ubuntu 18.04 + * Ubuntu 19.04 + + * NICs: + + * Intel\ |reg| Corporation Ethernet Controller E810-C for SFP (4x25G) + + * Firmware version: 1.02 0x80002b69 + * Device id (pf): 8086:1593 + * Driver version: 0.12.34 (ice) + + * Intel\ |reg| Corporation Ethernet Controller E810-C for SFP (2x100G) + + * Firmware version: 1.02 0x80002b68 + * Device id (pf): 8086:1592 + * Driver version: 0.12.34 (ice) + + * Intel\ |reg| 82599ES 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller + + * Firmware version: 0x61bf0001 + * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:10fb / 8086:10ed + * Driver version: 5.6.1 (ixgbe) + + * Intel\ |reg| Corporation Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T + + * Firmware version: 0x800003e7 + * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:15ad / 8086:15a8 + * Driver version: 5.1.0 (ixgbe) + + * Intel\ |reg| Corporation Ethernet Controller 10G X550T + + * Firmware version: 0x80000482 + * Device id (pf): 8086:1563 + * Driver version: 5.6.1 (ixgbe) + + * Intel\ |reg| Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA4 (4x10G) + + * Firmware version: 7.20 0x800079e8 + * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1572 / 8086:154c + * Driver version: 2.10.19.30 (i40e) + + * Intel\ |reg| Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ (4x10G) + + * Firmware version: 4.11 0x80001def + * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:37d0 / 8086:37cd + * Driver version: 2.10.19.30 (i40e) + + * Intel\ |reg| Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T (2x10G) + + * Firmware version: 4.10 0x80001a7a + * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:37d2 / 8086:37cd + * Driver version: 2.10.19.30 (i40e) + + * Intel\ |reg| Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (2x25G) + + * Firmware version: 7.20 0x80007947 + * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:158b / 8086:154c + * Driver version: 2.10.19.30 (i40e) + + * Intel\ |reg| Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710-QDA2 (2X40G) + + * Firmware version: 7.20 0x80007948 + * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1583 / 8086:154c + * Driver version: 2.10.19.30 (i40e) + + * Intel\ |reg| Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection + + * Firmware version: 1.63, 0x80000cbc + * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1521 / 8086:1520 + * Driver version: 5.4.0-k (igb) + + * Intel\ |reg| Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection + + * Firmware version: 3.25, 0x800006eb + * Device id (pf): 8086:1533 + * Driver version: 5.4.0-k(igb)