X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_19_11.rst;h=43a442c079dc6671b30ffc4fe3225eaf6d36c957;hb=19b8d75f648021b2fc1e607311aea1c5e9063ff4;hp=4a918dae84df6d2f871204e8ebf30180601ff8d4;hpb=ce07a121c7975e9a984365dc5f2a3fa2867696cc;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst index 4a918dae84..43a442c079 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst @@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ New Features The lock-free stack implementation is enabled for aarch64 platforms. +* **Added support of dynamic fields and flags in mbuf.** + + This new feature adds the ability to dynamically register some room + for a field or a flag in the mbuf structure. This is typically used + for specific offload features, where adding a static field or flag + in the mbuf is not justified. + * **Updated the enic driver.** * Added support for Geneve with options offload. @@ -81,6 +88,10 @@ New Features 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 iavf PMD.** + + Enable AVX2 data path for iavf PMD. + * **Updated the Intel e1000 driver.** Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag. @@ -97,6 +108,15 @@ New Features Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag. +* **Added RX/TX packet burst mode get API.** + + Added two new functions ``rte_eth_rx_burst_mode_get`` and + ``rte_eth_tx_burst_mode_get`` that allow an application + to retrieve the mode information about RX/TX packet burst + such as Scalar or Vector, and Vector technology like AVX2. + Another new function ``rte_eth_burst_mode_option_name`` is + provided for burst mode options stringification. + * **Updated the Intel ice driver.** Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including: @@ -104,7 +124,13 @@ 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 Flow Director filter based on generic filter framework. * Added support for the ``RTE_ETH_DEV_CLOSE_REMOVE`` flag. + * Generic filter enhancement + - Supported pipeline mode. + - Supported new packet type like PPPoE for switch filter. + * Supported input set change and symmetric hash by rte_flow RSS action. + * Added support for GTP Tx checksum offload. * **Added cryptodev asymmetric session-less operation.** @@ -116,6 +142,27 @@ New Features 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. + +* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.** + + Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added support for VLAN pop flow offload command. + * Added support for VLAN push flow offload command. + * Added support for VLAN set PCP offload command. + * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command. + * Added support for matching on packets withe Geneve tunnel header. + +* **Updated the AF_XDP PMD.** + + Updated the AF_XDP PMD. The new features include: + + * Enabled zero copy between application mempools and UMEM by enabling the + XDP_UMEM_UNALIGNED_CHUNKS UMEM flag. * **Added Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.** @@ -209,6 +256,10 @@ Removed Items ipv4_cksum|udp_cksum|tcp_cksum|timestamp| vlan_strip|vlan_filter|vlan_extend on|off +* Removed AF_XDP pmd_zero copy vdev argument. Support is now auto-detected. + +* Removed vhost-scsi example. + API Changes ----------- @@ -225,6 +276,12 @@ API Changes Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* The network structure ``esp_tail`` has been prefixed by ``rte_``. + +* The network definitions of PPPoE ethertypes have been prefixed by ``RTE_``. + +* The network structure for MPLS has been prefixed by ``rte_``. + * ethdev: changed ``rte_eth_dev_infos_get`` return value from ``void`` to ``int`` to provide a way to report various error conditions. @@ -254,6 +311,11 @@ API Changes 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. +* sched: The pipe nodes configuration parameters such as number of pipes, + pipe queue sizes, pipe profiles, etc., are moved from port level structure + to subport level. This allows different subports of the same port to + have different configuration for the pipe nodes. + ABI Changes ----------- @@ -341,7 +403,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. librte_rcu.so.1 librte_reorder.so.1 librte_ring.so.2 - librte_sched.so.3 + + librte_sched.so.4 librte_security.so.2 librte_stack.so.1 librte_table.so.3 @@ -383,12 +445,3 @@ Tested Platforms Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= -* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.** - - Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including: - - * Added support for VLAN pop flow offload command. - * Added support for VLAN push flow offload command. - * Added support for VLAN set PCP offload command. - * Added support for VLAN set VID offload command. -