X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_20_08.rst;h=f19b748728e4f50490e9687eab3ecbe5e9987458;hb=d164c609e70b18d7273d9ac5b4d23cbdff3086c7;hp=a731e162011b42096b2b111b815602ba1525188c;hpb=e8c321e5ee61eac3911c322e96d2314882717ca4;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst index a731e16201..f19b748728 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst @@ -81,12 +81,41 @@ New Features Added the RegEx library which provides an API for offload of regular expressions search operations to hardware or software accelerator devices. +* **Added eCPRI protocol support in rte_flow.** + + The ``ECPRI`` item has been added to support eCPRI packet offloading for + 5G network. + +* **Introduced send packet scheduling on the timestamps.** + + Added the new mbuf dynamic field and flag to provide timestamp on what packet + transmitting can be synchronized. The device Tx offload flag is added to + indicate the PMD supports send scheduling. + * **Updated PCAP driver.** Updated PCAP driver with new features and improvements, including: * Support software Tx nanosecond timestamps precision. +* **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.** + + Updated the Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added support for VF representors. + * Added support for multiple devices. + * Added support for new resource manager API. + * Added support for VXLAN encap/decap. + * Added support for rte_flow_query for COUNT action. + * Added support for rx_burst_mode_get and tx_burst_mode_get. + * Added vector mode support for ARM CPUs. + * Added support for VLAN push and pop actions. + * Added support for NAT action items. + +* **Updated Cisco enic driver.** + + * Added support for VLAN push and pop flow actions. + * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.** Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including: @@ -117,6 +146,35 @@ New Features * Added support for DCF datapath configuration. * Added support for more PPPoE packet type for switch filter. +* **Updated Intel i40e driver.** + + Updated i40e PMD with new features and improvements, including: + + * Supported cloud filter for IPv4/6_TCP/UDP/SCTP with SRC port only or DST port only. + * Re-implemented get_fdir_info and get_fdir_stat in private API. + * Re-implemented set_gre_key_len in private API. + * Added support for flow query RSS. + +* **Updated the Intel ixgbe driver.** + + Updated the Intel ixgbe driver with new features and improvements, including: + + * Re-implemented get_fdir_info and get_fdir_stat in private API. + +* **Updated NXP dpaa ethdev PMD.** + + Updated the NXP dpaa ethdev with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added support for link status and interrupt + * Added support to use datapath APIs from non-EAL pthread + +* **Updated NXP dpaa2 ethdev PMD.** + + Updated the NXP dpaa2 ethdev with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added support to use datapath APIs from non-EAL pthread + * Added support for dynamic flow management + * **Added DOCSIS protocol to rte_security.** Added support for combined crypto and CRC operations for the DOCSIS protocol @@ -145,6 +203,12 @@ New Features which are used to access packet data in a safe manner. Currently JIT support for these instructions is implemented for x86 only. +* **Added new testpmd forward mode.** + + Added new ``5tswap`` forward mode to testpmd. + the ``5tswap`` swaps source and destination in layers 2,3,4 + for ipv4 and ipv6 in L3 and UDP and TCP in L4. + * **Added flow performance test application.** Added new application to test ``rte_flow`` performance, including: