X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_17_11.rst;h=f8c7f2392af24bbb4e4a7218ccfaa179a74427b5;hb=49c80d31fe209bc548d3b8aa5f4f7da42ad89d9f;hp=4267c26511ea9f80f32647e9b49959077ec13a2a;hpb=b1ce0ad9e8a8450c4eb2efa0d6ef62f8f8ef1d75;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst index 4267c26511..f8c7f2392a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst @@ -59,11 +59,47 @@ New Features "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this new driver. +* **Updated mlx5 driver.** + + Updated the mlx5 driver including the following changes: + + * Enabled PMD to run on top of upstream linux kernel and rdma-core libs. + By that removed the dependency on specific Mellanox OFED libraries. + * Improved PMD latency performance. + * Improved PMD memory footprint. + * Supported vectorized Rx/Tx burst for ARMv8. + * Supported secondary process. + * Supported flow counters. + * Supported Rx hardware timestamp offload. + * Supported device removal event. + * **Added SoftNIC PMD.** Added new SoftNIC PMD. This virtual device offers applications a software fallback support for traffic management. +* **Added support for NXP DPAA Devices.** + + Added support for NXP's DPAA devices - LS104x series. This includes: + + * DPAA Bus driver + * DPAA Mempool driver for supporting offloaded packet memory pool + * DPAA PMD for DPAA devices + + See the "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details of + this new driver. + +* **Updated support for Cavium OCTEONTX Device.** + + Updated support for Cavium's OCTEONTX device(CN83xx). This includes: + + * OCTEONTX Mempool driver for supporting offloaded packet memory pool + * OCTEONTX Ethdev PMD + * OCTEONTX Eventdev-Ethdev Rx adapter + + See the "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details of + this new driver. + * **nfp: Added PF support.** Previously Netronome's NFP PMD had just support for VFs. PF support is @@ -137,7 +173,13 @@ New Features * **Added IOMMU support to libvhost-user** Implemented device IOTLB in Vhost-user backend, and enabled Virtio's IOMMU - feature. + feature. The feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled by setting + RTE_VHOST_USER_IOMMU_SUPPORT flag at vhost device registration time. + +* **Added the Event Ethernet Adapter Library.** + + Added the Event Ethernet Adapter library. It provices APIs for + eventdev applications to configure the ethdev to eventdev packet flow. * **Added Membership library (rte_member).** @@ -259,6 +301,12 @@ API Changes The size of internal device name is increased to 64 characters to allow for storing longer bus specific name. +* **Ethdev flag RTE_ETH_DEV_DETACHABLE was removed** + + This flag is not necessary anymore, with the new hotplug implementation. + It is now removed from the ether library. Its semantic is expressed at the bus + and PMD level. + * **Service cores API updated for usability** The service cores API has been changed, removing pointers from the API @@ -285,6 +333,52 @@ API Changes * ``rte_mem_phy2mch`` was used in Xen dom0 to obtain the physical address; remove this API as Xen dom0 support was removed. +* **Some data type, structure members and functions related to physical address + are deprecated and have new alias with IOVA wording.** + + * ``phys_addr_t`` can be often replaced by ``rte_iova_t`` of same size. + * ``RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR`` is often replaced by ``RTE_BAD_IOVA`` of same value. + * ``rte_memseg.phys_addr`` is aliased with ``rte_memseg.iova_addr``. + * ``rte_mem_virt2phy()`` can often be replaced by ``rte_mem_virt2iova``. + * ``rte_malloc_virt2phy`` is aliased with ``rte_malloc_virt2iova``. + * ``rte_memzone.phys_addr`` is aliased with ``rte_memzone.iova``. + * ``rte_mempool_objhdr.physaddr`` is aliased with ``rte_mempool_objhdr.iova``. + * ``rte_mempool_memhdr.phys_addr`` is aliased with ``rte_mempool_memhdr.iova``. + * ``rte_mempool_virt2phy()`` can be replaced by ``rte_mempool_virt2iova()``. + * ``rte_mempool_populate_phys*()`` are aliased with ``rte_mempool_populate_iova*()`` + * ``rte_mbuf.buf_physaddr`` is aliased with ``rte_mbuf.buf_iova``. + * ``rte_mbuf_data_dma_addr*()`` are aliased with ``rte_mbuf_data_iova*()``. + * ``rte_pktmbuf_mtophys*`` are aliased with ``rte_pktmbuf_iova*()``. + +* **PCI bus API moved outside of the EAL** + + The PCI bus previously implemented within the EAL has been moved. + A first part has been added as an RTE library providing PCI helpers to + parse device locations or other such utilities. + A second part consisting in the actual bus driver has been moved to its + proper subdirectory, without changing its functionalities. + + As such, several PCI-related functions are not proposed by the EAL anymore: + + * rte_pci_detach + * rte_pci_dump + * rte_pci_ioport_map + * rte_pci_ioport_read + * rte_pci_ioport_unmap + * rte_pci_ioport_write + * rte_pci_map_device + * rte_pci_probe + * rte_pci_probe_one + * rte_pci_read_config + * rte_pci_register + * rte_pci_scan + * rte_pci_unmap_device + * rte_pci_unregister + * rte_pci_write_config + + These functions are made available either as part of ``librte_pci`` or + ``librte_bus_pci``. + * **Add return value to stats_get dev op API** The ``stats_get`` dev op API return value has been changed to be int. @@ -303,6 +397,9 @@ API Changes and have been replaced by non bus specific functions ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_parse_input_args()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()``. +* ``rte_cryptodev_create_vdev`` was removed to avoid the dependency on vdev + in librte_cryptodev; instead, users can call rte_vdev_init() directly. + * **Removed PCI device bus specific functions from librte_cryptodev.** The functions ``rte_cryptodev_pci_generic_probe()`` and @@ -318,6 +415,26 @@ API Changes ``rte_log_get_global_level()``, ``rte_log_set_level()`` and ``rte_log_get_level()``. +* **Removed ``mbuf`` flags ``PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT`` and ``PKT_RX_QINQ_PKT``.** + + The ``mbuf`` flags ``PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT`` and ``PKT_RX_QINQ_PKT`` have + been removed since their behavior were not properly described. + +* **Added ``mbuf`` flags ``PKT_RX_VLAN`` and ``PKT_RX_QINQ``.** + + Two ``mbuf`` flags have been added to indicate that the VLAN + identifier has been saved in in the ``mbuf`` structure. For instance: + + - if VLAN is not stripped and TCI is saved: ``PKT_RX_VLAN`` + - if VLAN is stripped and TCI is saved: ``PKT_RX_VLAN | PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED`` + +* **Modified the vlan_offload_set_t function prototype in the ethdev library.** + + Changed the function prototype of ``vlan_offload_set_t``. The return value + has been changed from ``void`` to ``int`` so the caller to knows whether + the backing device supports the operation or if the operation was + successfully performed. + ABI Changes ----------- @@ -392,10 +509,11 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. librte_latencystats.so.1 librte_lpm.so.2 librte_mbuf.so.3 - librte_mempool.so.2 + + librte_mempool.so.3 librte_meter.so.1 librte_metrics.so.1 librte_net.so.1 + + librte_pci.so.1 + librte_pdump.so.2 librte_pipeline.so.3 + librte_pmd_bnxt.so.2 @@ -410,6 +528,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. librte_reorder.so.1 librte_ring.so.1 librte_sched.so.1 + + librte_security.so.1 + librte_table.so.3 librte_timer.so.1 librte_vhost.so.3