X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_19_11.rst;h=08abc36b75e394df6287b84d4a1d613615661ed0;hb=a2aafb9aa6517160a2621e2140e36d67326190d5;hp=45ed1586c728c7d358c709c5a5ed6003a0ae39f2;hpb=565829db8b8fa70605cc3a00e19c37c561c9dc18;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst index 45ed1586c7..08abc36b75 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst @@ -56,12 +56,47 @@ New Features Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* **FreeBSD now supports `--base-virtaddr` EAL option.** + + FreeBSD version now also supports setting base virtual address for mapping + pages and resources into its address space. + +* **Added Lock-free Stack for aarch64.** + + The lock-free stack implementation is enabled for aarch64 platforms. + +* **Updated the enic driver.** + + * Added support for Geneve with options offload. + * Added flow API implementation based on VIC Flow Manager API. + * **Added Hisilicon hns3 PMD.** Added the new ``hns3`` net driver for the inbuilt Hisilicon Network Subsystem 3(HNS3) network engine found in the Hisilicon Kunpeng 920 SoC. See the :doc:`../nics/hns3` guide for more details on this new driver. +* **Added NXP PFE PMD.** + + Added the new PFE driver for the NXP LS1012A platform. See the + :doc:`../nics/pfe` NIC driver guide for more details on this new driver. + +* **Updated the Intel e1000 driver.** + + Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag. + +* **Updated the Intel ixgbe driver.** + + Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag. + +* **Updated the Intel i40e driver.** + + Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag. + +* **Updated the Intel fm10k driver.** + + Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag. + * **Updated the Intel ice driver.** Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including: @@ -69,12 +104,39 @@ New Features * Added support for device-specific DDP package loading. * Added support for handling Receive Flex Descriptor. * Added support for protocol extraction on per Rx queue. + * Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag. + +* **Added cryptodev asymmetric session-less operation.** + + Added session-less option to cryptodev asymmetric structure. It works the same + way as symmetric crypto, corresponding xform is used directly by the crypto op. + +* **Updated the Huawei hinic driver.** + + Updated the Huawei hinic driver with new features and improvements, including: + + * Enabled SR-IOV - Partially supported at this point, VFIO only. + * Supported VLAN filter and VLAN offload. + * Supported Unicast MAC filter and Multicast MAC filter. + * Supported Flow director for LACP, VRRP, BGP and so on. + * Supported FW version get. * **Added Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.** Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Marvell NITROX V security processor. See the :doc:`../cryptodevs/nitrox` guide for more details on this new +* **Added asymmetric support to Marvell OCTEON TX crypto PMD.** + + Added support for asymmetric operations in Marvell OCTEON TX cypto PMD. + Supports RSA and modexp operations. + +* **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD** + + Added a new PMD driver for h/w crypto offload block on ``OCTEON TX2`` SoC. + + See :doc:`../cryptodevs/octeontx2` for more details + * **Updated NXP crypto PMDs for PDCP support.** PDCP support is added to DPAA_SEC and DPAA2_SEC PMDs using rte_security APIs. @@ -88,11 +150,44 @@ New Features classic 2-pass mode when running on QAT GEN3, significantly improving the performance of AES GCM operations. +* **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) asymmetric crypto PMD.** + + * Added support for asymmetric session-less operations. + * Added support for RSA algorithm with pair (n, d) private key representation. + * Added support for RSA algorithm with quintuple private key representation. + * **Updated the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) compression PMD.** Added stateful decompression support in the Intel QuickAssist Technology PMD. Please note that stateful compression is not supported. +* **Added external buffers support for dpdk-test-compress-perf tool.** + + Added a command line option to dpdk-test-compress-perf tool to allocate + and use memory zones as external buffers instead of keeping the data directly + in mbuf areas. + +* **Updated the IPSec library.** + + Added SA Database API to ``librte_ipsec``. A new test-sad application is also + introduced to evaluate and perform custom functional and performance tests + for IPsec SAD implementation. + +* **Introduced FIFO for NTB PMD.** + + Introduced FIFO for NTB (Non-transparent Bridge) PMD to support + packet based processing. + +* **Added eBPF JIT support for arm64.** + + Added eBPF JIT support for arm64 architecture to improve the eBPF program + performance. + +* **Updated testpmd.** + + * Added a console command to testpmd app, ``show port (port_id) ptypes`` which + gives ability to print port supported ptypes in different protocol layers. + Removed Items ------------- @@ -106,14 +201,17 @@ Removed Items Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= - * Removed duplicated set of commands for RX offloading configuration from app/testpmd: - “port config all crc-strip|scatter|rx-cksum|rx-timestamp|hw-vlan|hw-vlan-filter| - hw-vlan-strip|hw-vlan-extend on|off”. +* Removed duplicated set of commands for Rx offload configuration from testpmd:: + + port config all crc-strip|scatter|rx-cksum|rx-timestamp| + hw-vlan|hw-vlan-filter|hw-vlan-strip|hw-vlan-extend on|off - The testpmd commands set that can be used instead in order to enable or disable Rx - offloading on all Rx queues of a port is: - "port config rx_offload crc_strip|scatter|ipv4_cksum|udp_cksum|tcp_cksum| - timestamp|vlan_strip|vlan_filter|vlan_extend on|off" + The testpmd commands set that can be used instead + in order to enable or disable Rx offloading on all Rx queues of a port is:: + + port config rx_offload crc_strip|scatter| + ipv4_cksum|udp_cksum|tcp_cksum|timestamp| + vlan_strip|vlan_filter|vlan_extend on|off API Changes @@ -155,6 +253,11 @@ API Changes * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_owner_delete`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions. +* event: The function ``rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_enqueue`` takes an additional + input as ``flags``. Flag ``RTE_EVENT_ETH_TX_ADAPTER_ENQUEUE_SAME_DEST`` which + has been introduced in this release is used when used when all the packets + enqueued in the tx adapter are destined for the same Ethernet port & Tx queue. + ABI Changes ----------- @@ -207,7 +310,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. librte_eal.so.11 librte_efd.so.1 + librte_ethdev.so.13 - librte_eventdev.so.7 + + librte_eventdev.so.8 librte_flow_classify.so.1 librte_gro.so.1 librte_gso.so.1