X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_20_11.rst;h=7e96c45ae4116d96ef34e9a980a9c29c68e8c252;hb=70207f35e21f8391dbb734391e11244b58343b44;hp=7616dc7f27f53770a18ae34fce56722f94249774;hpb=3cd73a1a1c4d99439a6883c37a4ba4b561325615;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst index 7616dc7f27..7e96c45ae4 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst @@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ New Features Added the FEC API which provides functions for query FEC capabilities and current FEC mode from device. Also, API for configuring FEC mode is also provided. +* **Added thread safety to rte_flow functions.** + + Added ``RTE_ETH_DEV_FLOW_OPS_THREAD_SAFE`` device flag to indicate + whether PMD supports thread safe operations. If PMD doesn't set the flag, + rte_flow API level functions will protect the flow operations with mutex. + * **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.** Updated the Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including: @@ -152,12 +158,73 @@ New Features ``--portmask=N`` where N represents the hexadecimal bitmask of ports used. +* **Added raw data-path APIs for cryptodev library.** + + Cryptodev is added with raw data-path APIs to accelerate external + libraries or applications which need to avail fast cryptodev + enqueue/dequeue operations but does not necessarily depends on + mbufs and cryptodev operation mempools. + +* **Updated the aesni_mb crypto PMD.** + + * Added support for AES-ECB 128, 192 and 256. + * Added support for ZUC-EEA3/EIA3 algorithms. + * Added support for SNOW3G-UEA2/UIA2 algorithms. + * Added support for KASUMI-F8/F9 algorithms. + * Added support for Chacha20-Poly1305. + * Added support for AES-256 CCM algorithm. + +* **Updated the aesni_gcm crypto PMD.** + + * Added SGL support for AES-GMAC. + +* **Added Broadcom BCMFS symmetric crypto PMD.** + + Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Broadcom FlexSparc crypto units. + See :doc:`../cryptodevs/bcmfs` guide for more details on this new PMD. + +* **Updated DPAA2_SEC crypto PMD.** + + * Added DES-CBC support for cipher_only, chain and ipsec protocol. + * Added support for non-HMAC auth algorithms + (MD5, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512). + +* **Updated Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.** + + * Added AES-GCM support. + * Added cipher only offload support. + +* **Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.** + + * Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD lookaside protocol offload for IPsec with + IPv6 support. + +* **Updated QAT crypto PMD.** + + * Added Raw Data-path APIs support. + +* **Added Intel ACC100 bbdev PMD.** + + Added a new ``acc100`` bbdev driver for the Intel\ |reg| ACC100 accelerator + also known as Mount Bryce. See the + :doc:`../bbdevs/acc100` BBDEV guide for more details on this new driver. + +* **Updated rte_security library to support SDAP.** + + ``rte_security_pdcp_xform`` in ``rte_security`` lib is updated to enable + 5G NR processing of SDAP header in PMDs. + * **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 regex PMD.** Added a new PMD driver for hardware regex offload block for OCTEON TX2 SoC. See the :doc:`../regexdevs/octeontx2` for more details. +* **Updated Software Eventdev driver.** + + Added performance tuning arguments to allow tuning the scheduler for + better throughtput in high core count use cases. + * **Updated ioat rawdev driver** The ioat rawdev driver has been updated and enhanced. Changes include: @@ -204,6 +271,11 @@ New Features * Added support to update subport rate dynamically. +* **Updated FIPS validation sample application.** + + * Added scatter gather support. + * Added NIST GCMVS complaint GMAC test method support. + Removed Items ------------- @@ -300,6 +372,40 @@ API Changes * vhost: Moved vDPA APIs from experimental to stable. +* cryptodev: The structure ``rte_crypto_sym_vec`` is updated to support both + cpu_crypto synchrounous operation and asynchronous raw data-path APIs. + +* cryptodev: ``RTE_CRYPTO_AEAD_LIST_END`` from ``enum rte_crypto_aead_algorithm``, + ``RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_LIST_END`` from ``enum rte_crypto_cipher_algorithm`` and + ``RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_LIST_END`` from ``enum rte_crypto_auth_algorithm`` + are removed to avoid future ABI breakage while adding new algorithms. + +* scheduler: Renamed functions ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_slave_attach``, + ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_slave_detach`` and + ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_slaves_get`` to + ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_worker_attach``, + ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_worker_detach`` and + ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_workers_get`` accordingly. + +* scheduler: Renamed the configuration value + ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_SCHEDULER_MAX_NB_SLAVES`` to + ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_SCHEDULER_MAX_NB_WORKERS``. + +* security: ``hfn_ovrd`` field in ``rte_security_pdcp_xform`` is changed from + ``uint32_t`` to ``uint8_t`` so that a new field ``sdap_enabled`` can be added + to support SDAP. + +* ipsec: ``RTE_SATP_LOG2_NUM`` has been dropped from ``enum`` and + subsequently moved ``rte_ipsec`` lib from experimental to stable. + +* baseband/fpga_lte_fec: Renamed function ``fpga_lte_fec_configure`` to + ``rte_fpga_lte_fec_configure`` and structure ``fpga_lte_fec_conf`` to + ``rte_fpga_lte_fec_conf``. + +* baseband/fpga_5gnr_fec: Renamed function ``fpga_5gnr_fec_configure`` to + ``rte_fpga_5gnr_fec_configure`` and structure ``fpga_5gnr_fec_conf`` to + ``rte_fpga_5gnr_fec_conf``. + * rawdev: Added a structure size parameter to the functions ``rte_rawdev_queue_setup()``, ``rte_rawdev_queue_conf_get()``, ``rte_rawdev_info_get()`` and ``rte_rawdev_configure()``,