X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_20_11.rst;h=8814ae74a3ef97e69085aff2fb458ab2ad0cd7ec;hb=b64c2295f7fcfae9273c1501819826e59449e185;hp=fafd0f7962d4bab617e15602cb23524c7910402f;hpb=bc4c8309b76faa5157e4f0a456c4160ed21efece;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst index fafd0f7962..8814ae74a3 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst @@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ New Features The functions are provided as a generic stubs and x86 specific implementation. +* **Updated CRC modules of the net library.** + + * Added runtime selection of the optimal architecture-specific CRC path. + * Added optimized implementations of CRC32-Ethernet and CRC16-CCITT + using the AVX512 and VPCLMULQDQ instruction sets. + * **Added the FEC API, for a generic FEC query and config.** Added the FEC API which provides functions for query FEC capabilities and @@ -107,6 +113,10 @@ New Features Updated the Intel ixgbe driver to use write combining stores. +* **Updated Intel ice driver.** + + Updated the Intel ice driver to use write combining stores. + * **Updated Intel qat driver.** Updated the Intel qat driver to use write combining stores. @@ -136,6 +146,12 @@ New Features ``--portmask=N`` where N represents the hexadecimal bitmask of ports used. +* **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 ioat rawdev driver** The ioat rawdev driver has been updated and enhanced. Changes include: @@ -167,6 +183,11 @@ New Features * Extern objects and functions can be plugged into the pipeline. * Transaction-oriented table updates. +* **Add new AVX512 specific classify algorithms for ACL library.** + + * Added new ``RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_AVX512X16`` vector implementation, + which can process up to 16 flows in parallel. Requires AVX512 support. + Removed Items ------------- @@ -288,6 +309,10 @@ API Changes * bpf: ``RTE_BPF_XTYPE_NUM`` has been dropped from ``rte_bpf_xtype``. +* acl: ``RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_NUM`` enum value has been removed. + This enum value was not used inside DPDK, while it prevented to add new + classify algorithms without causing an ABI breakage. + ABI Changes -----------