X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_18_02.rst;h=9220c16c6a3af776c6d9a52e0bdcafab49e4db27;hb=d0d7ad6119f12d9f01a5ca72d9a438426f4d0f0e;hp=b7ee2036fb20bbf1171a12d148cc9c5a36199b72;hpb=783b6e54971d63f795e3ef71ced89f699bc01f81;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst index b7ee2036fb..9220c16c6a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst @@ -83,6 +83,32 @@ New Features profiles which can be programmed by dynamic device personalization (DDP) process. +* **Updated mlx5 driver.** + + Updated the mlx5 driver including the following changes: + + * Enabled compilation as a plugin, thus removed the mandatory dependency with rdma-core. + With the special compilation, the rdma-core libraries will be loaded only in case + Mellanox device is being used. For binaries creation the PMD can be enabled, still not + requiring from every end user to install rdma-core. + * Improved multi-segment packet performance. + * Changed driver name to use the PCI address to be compatible with OVS-DPDK APIs. + * Extended statistics for physical port packet/byte counters. + * Converted to the new offloads API. + * Supported device removal check operation. + +* **Updated mlx4 driver.** + + Updated the mlx4 driver including the following changes: + + * Enabled compilation as a plugin, thus removed the mandatory dependency with rdma-core. + With the special compilation, the rdma-core libraries will be loaded only in case + Mellanox device is being used. For binaries creation the PMD can be enabled, still not + requiring from every end user to install rdma-core. + * Improved data path performance. + * Converted to the new offloads API. + * Supported device removal check operation. + * **Added NVGRE and UDP tunnels support in Solarflare network PMD.** Added support for NVGRE, VXLAN and GENEVE tunnels. @@ -114,6 +140,17 @@ New Features * Rx/Tx descriptor status * Link status update/event +* **Add feature supports for live migration from vhost-net to vhost-user.** + + To make live migration from vhost-net to vhost-user possible, added + feature supports for vhost-user. The features include: + + * VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT + * VIRTIO_F_EVENT_IDX + * VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ECN, VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_ECN + * VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_UFO, VIRTIO_NET_F_HOST_UFO + * VIRTIO_NET_F_GSO + * **Updated the AESNI-MB PMD.** The AESNI-MB PMD has been updated with additional support for: @@ -166,6 +203,18 @@ New Features renamed the application from SW PMD specific ``eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd`` to PMD agnostic ``eventdev_pipeline``. +* **Added Rawdev, a generic device support library.** + + Rawdev library provides support for integrating any generic device type with + DPDK framework. Generic devices are those which do not have a pre-defined + type within DPDK, for example, ethernet, crypto, event etc. + A set of northbound APIs have been defined which encompass a generic set of + operations by allowing applications to interact with device using opaque + structures/buffers. Also, southbound APIs provide APIs for integrating device + either as as part of a physical bus (PCI, FSLMC etc) or through ``vdev``. + + See the :doc:`../prog_guide/rawdev` programmer's guide for more details. + * **Added new multi-process communication channel** Added a generic channel in EAL for multi-process (primary/secondary) communication. @@ -178,6 +227,37 @@ New Features * ``rte_mp_request`` is for sending a request message and will block until it gets a reply message which is sent from the peer by ``rte_mp_reply``. +* **Add GRO support for VxLAN-tunneled packets.** + + Add GRO support for VxLAN-tunneled packets. Supported VxLAN packets + must contain an outer IPv4 header and inner TCP/IPv4 headers. VxLAN + GRO doesn't check if input packets have correct checksums and doesn't + update checksums for output packets. Additionally, it assumes the + packets are complete (i.e., MF==0 && frag_off==0), when IP + fragmentation is possible (i.e., DF==0). + +* **Increased default Rx and Tx ring size in sample applications.** + + Increased the default ``RX_RING_SIZE`` and ``TX_RING_SIZE`` to 1024 entries + in testpmd and the sample applications to give better performance in the + general case. The user should experiment with various Rx and Tx ring sizes + for their specific application to get best performance. + +* **Added new DPDK build system using the tools "meson" and "ninja" [EXPERIMENTAL]** + + Added in support for building DPDK using ``meson`` and ``ninja``, which gives + additional features, such as automatic build-time configuration, over the + current build system using ``make``. For instructions on how to do a DPDK build + using the new system, see the instructions in ``doc/build-sdk-meson.txt``. + +.. note:: + + This new build system support is incomplete at this point and is added + as experimental in this release. The existing build system using ``make`` + is unaffected by these changes, and can continue to be used for this + and subsequent releases until such time as it's deprecation is announced. + + API Changes ----------- @@ -293,6 +373,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. librte_pmd_vhost.so.2 librte_port.so.3 librte_power.so.1 + + librte_rawdev.so.1 librte_reorder.so.1 librte_ring.so.1 librte_sched.so.1 @@ -321,3 +402,226 @@ Tested Platforms This section is a comment. do not overwrite or remove it. Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= + +* Intel(R) platforms with Intel(R) NICs combinations + + * CPU + + * Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2758 @ 2.40GHz + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1540 @ 2.00GHz + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1541 @ 2.10GHz + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-4667 v3 @ 2.00GHz + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v4 @ 2.10GHz + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2658 v2 @ 2.40GHz + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2658 v3 @ 2.20GHz + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8180 CPU @ 2.50GHz + + * OS: + + * CentOS 7.2 + * Fedora 25 + * Fedora 26 + * Fedora 27 + * FreeBSD 11 + * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 + * SUSE Enterprise Linux 12 + * Wind River Linux 8 + * Ubantu 14.04 + * Ubuntu 16.04 + * Ubuntu 16.10 + * Ubantu 17.10 + + * NICs: + + * Intel(R) 82599ES 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller + + * Firmware version: 0x61bf0001 + * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:10fb / 8086:10ed + * Driver version: 5.2.3 (ixgbe) + + * Intel(R) Corporation Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T + + * Firmware version: 0x800003e7 + * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:15ad / 8086:15a8 + * Driver version: 4.4.6 (ixgbe) + + * Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA4 (4x10G) + + * Firmware version: 6.01 0x80003221 + * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1572 / 8086:154c + * Driver version: 2.4.3 (i40e) + + * Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T + + * firmware-version: 6.01 0x80003221 + * Device id: 8086:37d2 / 8086:154c + * Driver version: 2.4.3 (i40e) + + * Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (2x25G) + + * Firmware version: 6.01 0x80003221 + * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:158b / 8086:154c + * Driver version: 2.4.3 (i40e) + + * Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710-QDA2 (2X40G) + + * Firmware version: 6.01 0x8000321c + * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1583 / 8086:154c + * Driver version: 2.4.3 (i40e) + + * Intel(R) Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection + + * Firmware version: 1.63, 0x80000dda + * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1521 / 8086:1520 + * Driver version: 5.3.0-k (igb) + +* Intel(R) platforms with Mellanox(R) NICs combinations + + * CPU: + + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697A v4 @ 2.60GHz + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 @ 2.50GHz + * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz + + * OS: + + * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 Beta (Maipo) + * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo) + * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo) + * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo) + * Ubuntu 17.10 + * Ubuntu 16.10 + * Ubuntu 16.04 + + * MLNX_OFED: 4.2-1.0.0.0 + * MLNX_OFED: 4.3-0.1.6.0 + + * NICs: + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-3 Pro 40G MCX354A-FCC_Ax (2x40G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8 + * Device ID: 15b3:1007 + * Firmware version: 2.42.5000 + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 10G MCX4111A-XCAT (1x10G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8 + * Device ID: 15b3:1013 + * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 10G MCX4121A-XCAT (2x10G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8 + * Device ID: 15b3:1013 + * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 25G MCX4111A-ACAT (1x25G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8 + * Device ID: 15b3:1013 + * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8 + * Device ID: 15b3:1013 + * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 40G MCX4131A-BCAT/MCX413A-BCAT (1x40G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8 + * Device ID: 15b3:1013 + * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 40G MCX415A-BCAT (1x40G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16 + * Device ID: 15b3:1013 + * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX4131A-GCAT/MCX413A-GCAT (1x50G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8 + * Device ID: 15b3:1013 + * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX414A-BCAT (2x50G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8 + * Device ID: 15b3:1013 + * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX415A-GCAT/MCX416A-BCAT/MCX416A-GCAT (2x50G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16 + * Device ID: 15b3:1013 + * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above + * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX415A-CCAT (1x100G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16 + * Device ID: 15b3:1013 + * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 100G MCX416A-CCAT (2x100G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16 + * Device ID: 15b3:1013 + * Firmware version: 12.21.1000 and above + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 Lx 10G MCX4121A-XCAT (2x10G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8 + * Device ID: 15b3:1015 + * Firmware version: 14.21.1000 and above + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 Lx 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8 + * Device ID: 15b3:1015 + * Firmware version: 14.21.1000 and above + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-5 100G MCX556A-ECAT (2x100G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16 + * Device ID: 15b3:1017 + * Firmware version: 16.21.1000 and above + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX-5 Ex EN 100G MCX516A-CDAT (2x100G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16 + * Device ID: 15b3:1019 + * Firmware version: 16.21.1000 and above + +* ARM platforms with Mellanox(R) NICs combinations + + * CPU: + + * Qualcomm ARM 1.1 2500MHz + + * OS: + + * Ubuntu 16.04 + + * MLNX_OFED: 4.2-1.0.0.0 + + * NICs: + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 Lx 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8 + * Device ID: 15b3:1015 + * Firmware version: 14.21.1000 + + * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-5 100G MCX556A-ECAT (2x100G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16 + * Device ID: 15b3:1017 + * Firmware version: 16.21.1000