X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_17_08.rst;h=5981eea5cc355aae0b81a85c0c4aa0cf5b9303bc;hb=e1043b049fdb37342b1e1c0ff13060b4f21dfe10;hp=de72b1c957344cc74b27849d8764723f09a0cb68;hpb=b3bbd9e5f265937164ed8c9c61d12f7543a745ea;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst index de72b1c957..5981eea5cc 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst @@ -41,6 +41,22 @@ New Features Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* **Added Service Core functionality.** + + The service core functionality added to EAL allows DPDK to run services such + as SW PMDs on lcores without the application manually running them. The + service core infrastructure allows flexibility of running multiple services + on the same service lcore, and provides the application with powerful APIs to + configure the mapping from service lcores to services. + +* **Added Generic Receive Offload API.** + + Generic Receive Offload (GRO) API supports to reassemble TCP/IPv4 + packets. GRO API assumes all inputted packets are with correct + checksums. GRO API doesn't update checksums for merged packets. If + inputted packets are IP fragmented, GRO API assumes they are complete + packets (i.e. with L4 headers). + * **Added support for generic flow API (rte_flow) on igb NIC.** This API provides a generic means to configure hardware to match specific @@ -85,6 +101,15 @@ New Features Added support for firmwares with multiple Ethernet ports per physical port. +* **Updated dpaa2 PMD.** + + Major enhancements include: + * Support MAC Filter configuration + * Support Segmented Buffers + * Support VLAN filter and strip functionality. + * Other enhancements to add support for more dev_ops. + * Optimized the packet receive path + * **Reorganized the symmetric crypto operation structure.** The crypto operation (``rte_crypto_sym_op``) has been reorganized as follows: @@ -153,6 +178,19 @@ New Features Added a multicore based distribution mode, which distributes the enqueued crypto operations among several slaves, running on different logical cores. +* **Added NXP DPAA2 Eventdev PMD.** + + Added the new dpaa2 eventdev driver for NXP DPAA2 devices. See the + "Event Device Drivers" document for more details on this new driver. + +* **Added dpdk-test-eventdev test application.** + + The dpdk-test-eventdev tool is a Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) application + that allows exercising various eventdev use cases. + This application has a generic framework to add new eventdev based test cases + to verify functionality and measure the performance parameters of DPDK + eventdev devices. + Resolved Issues --------------- @@ -222,6 +260,38 @@ API Changes Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* **Modified the _rte_eth_dev_callback_process function in the ethdev library.** + + The function ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process()`` has been modified. The return + value has been changed from void to int and an extra parameter ``void *ret_param`` + has been added. + +* **Moved bypass functions from the rte_ethdev library to ixgbe PMD** + + * The following rte_ethdev library functions were removed: + + * ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_event_show`` + * ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_event_store`` + * ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_init`` + * ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_state_set`` + * ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_state_show`` + * ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_ver_show`` + * ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_wd_reset`` + * ``rte_eth_dev_bypass_wd_timeout_show`` + * ``rte_eth_dev_wd_timeout_store`` + + * The following ixgbe PMD functions were added: + + * ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_event_show`` + * ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_event_store`` + * ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_init`` + * ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_state_set`` + * ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_state_show`` + * ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_ver_show`` + * ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_wd_reset`` + * ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_wd_timeout_show`` + * ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_bypass_wd_timeout_store`` + * **Reworked rte_cryptodev library.** The rte_cryptodev library has been reworked and updated. The following changes @@ -240,6 +310,10 @@ API Changes * Modified parameters of ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_create()``, to accept ``mempool``, instead of ``device id`` and ``rte_crypto_sym_xform``. * Remove ``device id`` parameter from ``rte_cryptodev_sym_session_free()``. + * Added new field ``session_pool`` to ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_setup()``. + * Removed ``aad_size`` parameter from ``rte_cryptodev_sym_capability_check_auth()``. + * Added ``iv_size`` parameter to ``rte_cryptodev_sym_capability_check_auth()``. + * Removed ``RTE_CRYPTO_OP_STATUS_ENQUEUED`` from enum ``rte_crypto_op_status``. ABI Changes @@ -268,6 +342,7 @@ ABI Changes * **Reorganized the ``rte_crypto_sym_cipher_xform`` structure.** * Added cipher IV length and offset parameters. + * Changed field size of key length from size_t to uint16_t. * **Reorganized the ``rte_crypto_sym_auth_xform`` structure.** @@ -275,6 +350,7 @@ ABI Changes * Changed field size of AAD length from uint32_t to uint16_t. * Changed field size of digest length from uint32_t to uint16_t. * Removed AAD length. + * Changed field size of key length from size_t to uint16_t. * Replaced ``dev_type`` enumeration with uint8_t ``driver_id`` in ``rte_cryptodev_info`` and ``rte_cryptodev`` structures. @@ -307,7 +383,8 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. + librte_cryptodev.so.3 librte_distributor.so.1 librte_eal.so.4 - librte_ethdev.so.6 + + librte_ethdev.so.7 + + librte_gro.so.1 librte_hash.so.2 librte_ip_frag.so.1 librte_jobstats.so.1