X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_17_11.rst;h=585110ff75a9c56346eded2a6d2f59166b90a1ef;hb=effd3b9fcf3841869e5035ac08ff25b1807c3f15;hp=1ffe2e097bbafd76304ed2b97cd85ec0617cf46a;hpb=f8244c6399d9fae6afab6770ae367aef38742ea5;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst index 1ffe2e097b..585110ff75 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst @@ -47,6 +47,23 @@ New Features 256 ports in dpdk. All ethdev APIs which have port_id as parameter are changed in the meantime. +* **Modified the return type of rte_eth_stats_reset.** + + Changed return type of ``rte_eth_stats_reset`` from ``void`` to ``int`` + so the caller may know whether a device supports the operation or not + and if the operation was carried out. + +* **Added a new driver for Marvell Armada 7k/8k devices.** + + Added the new mrvl net driver for Marvell Armada 7k/8k devices. See the + "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this new + driver. + +* **Added SoftNIC PMD.** + + Added new SoftNIC PMD. This virtual device offers applications a software + fallback support for traffic management. + * **nfp: Added PF support.** Previously Netronome's NFP PMD had just support for VFs. PF support is @@ -64,6 +81,44 @@ New Features * Support for Flow API * Support for Tx and Rx descriptor status functions +* **Added IOMMU support to libvhost-user** + + Implemented device IOTLB in Vhost-user backend, and enabled Virtio's IOMMU + feature. + +* **Added Membership library (rte_member).** + + Added membership library. It provides an API for DPDK applications to insert a + new member, delete an existing member, or query the existence of a member in a + given set, or a group of sets. For the case of a group of sets the library + will return not only whether the element has been inserted before in one of + the sets but also which set it belongs to. + + The Membership Library is an extension and generalization of a traditional + filter (for example Bloom Filter) structure that has multiple usages in a wide + variety of workloads and applications. In general, the Membership Library is a + data structure that provides a “set-summary” and responds to set-membership + queries whether a certain member belongs to a set(s). + + See the :ref:`Membership Library ` documentation in + the Programmers Guide document, for more information. + +* **Added the Generic Segmentation Offload Library.** + + Added the Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO) library to enable + applications to split large packets (e.g. MTU is 64KB) into small + ones (e.g. MTU is 1500B). Supported packet types are: + + * TCP/IPv4 packets. + * VxLAN packets, which must have an outer IPv4 header, and contain + an inner TCP/IPv4 packet. + * GRE packets, which must contain an outer IPv4 header, and inner + TCP/IPv4 headers. + + The GSO library doesn't check if the input packets have correct + checksums, and doesn't update checksums for output packets. + Additionally, the GSO library doesn't process IP fragmented packets. + Resolved Issues --------------- @@ -140,6 +195,11 @@ API Changes Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* **Ethdev device name length increased** + + The size of internal device name is increased to 64 characters + to allow for storing longer bus specific name. + * **Service cores API updated for usability** The service cores API has been changed, removing pointers from the API @@ -153,6 +213,30 @@ API Changes * Rework start and stop APIs into ``rte_service_runstate_set`` * Added API to set runstate of service implementation to indicate readyness +* **The following changes made in mempool library** + + * Moved ``flags`` datatype from int to unsigned int for ``rte_mempool``. + * Removed ``__rte_unused int flag`` param from ``rte_mempool_generic_put`` + and ``rte_mempool_generic_get`` API. + * Added ``flags`` param in ``rte_mempool_xmem_size`` and + ``rte_mempool_xmem_usage``. + +* Xen dom0 in EAL was removed, as well as xenvirt PMD and vhost_xen. + +* ``rte_mem_phy2mch`` was used in Xen dom0 to obtain the physical address; + remove this API as Xen dom0 support was removed. + +* **Add return value to stats_get dev op API** + + The ``stats_get`` dev op API return value has been changed to be int. + By this way PMDs can return an error value in case of failure at stats + getting process time. + +* **Modified the rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver function in the cryptodev library.** + + The function ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver()`` has been modified. + An extra parameter ``struct cryptodev_driver *crypto_drv`` has been added. + ABI Changes ----------- @@ -198,8 +282,9 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. librte_distributor.so.1 librte_eal.so.5 librte_ethdev.so.8 - librte_eventdev.so.2 + librte_eventdev.so.3 librte_gro.so.1 + librte_gso.so.1 librte_hash.so.2 librte_ip_frag.so.1 librte_jobstats.so.1 @@ -219,6 +304,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. librte_pmd_i40e.so.2 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2 librte_pmd_ring.so.2 + + librte_pmd_softnic.so.1 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2 librte_port.so.3 librte_power.so.1