X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_17_05.rst;h=8f58f0b586109f4548e5f36080c9feb1b43f3ca8;hb=0d01bbeebf886959ad2151c8605548c82d4fb5c7;hp=fa0da09443d6167256d12fa0cc17d244a2eec64d;hpb=e071ed491f6c39b760909e0a8fdae642f8808765;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst index fa0da09443..8f58f0b586 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst @@ -79,11 +79,53 @@ New Features i40e PMD and its vector PMD enabled by default in powerpc. +* **Added VF max bandwidth setting on i40e.** + + i40e HW supports to set the max bandwidth for a VF. Enable this capability. + +* **Added VF TC min bandwidth setting on i40e.** + + i40e HW supports to set the allocated bandwidth for a TC on a VF. Enable this + capability. + +* **Added VF TC max bandwidth setting on i40e.** + + i40e HW supports to set the max bandwidth for a TC on a VF. Enable this + capability. + +* **Added TC strict priority mode setting on i40e.** + + There're 2 TX scheduling modes supported for TCs by i40e HW, round ribon mode + and strict priority mode. By default it's round robin mode. Enable the + capability to change the TX scheduling mode for a TC. It's a global setting + on a physical port. + * **Added TSO support for tunneled and non-tunneled packets on mlx5 driver.** Added support for Hardware TSO for tunneled and non-tunneled packets. Tunneling protocols supported are GRE and VXLAN. +* **Added support for Rx interrupts on mlx5 driver.** + + Rx queues can be armed with an interrupt which will trigger on the + next packet arrival. + +* **Updated the sfc_efx driver.** + + * Generic flow API support for Ethernet, VLAN, IPv4, IPv6, UDP and TCP + pattern items with QUEUE action for ingress traffic. + + * Support virtual functions (VFs) + +* **Added LiquidIO network PMD.** + + Added poll mode driver support for Cavium LiquidIO II server adapter VFs. + +* **Added support for the Wind River Systems AVP PMD.** + + Added a new networking driver for the AVP device type. Theses devices are + specific to the Wind River Systems virtualization platforms. + * **Added vmxnet3 version 3 support.** Added support for vmxnet3 version 3 which includes several