X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_20_11.rst;h=b8fed9be53c9d3f0910a0458f952379587de71eb;hb=1372d0cb2a65fb42bef222300cde0982d161a97f;hp=deca60129b8919accc833a0a53d1658ac0924a30;hpb=e6925585d9c473e4308e3254766adcac37d8b169;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst index deca60129b..b8fed9be53 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst @@ -68,6 +68,15 @@ New Features which allow the programmer to prefetch a cache line and also indicate the intention to write. +* **Added the rte_cldemote API.** + + Added a hardware hint CLDEMOTE, which is similar to prefetch in reverse. + CLDEMOTE moves the cache line to the more remote cache, where it expects + sharing to be efficient. Moving the cache line to a level more distant from + the processor helps to accelerate core-to-core communication. + This API is specific to x86 and implemented as a stub for other + architectures. + * **Updated CRC modules of the net library.** * Added runtime selection of the optimal architecture-specific CRC path. @@ -79,6 +88,12 @@ 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: @@ -152,18 +167,73 @@ 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: @@ -210,6 +280,11 @@ 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 ------------- @@ -294,7 +369,13 @@ API Changes * ethdev: ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_done()`` API has been deprecated. -* Renamed internal ethdev APIs: +* ethdev: Renamed basic statistics per queue. An underscore is inserted + between the queue number and the rest of the xstat name: + + * ``rx_qN*`` -> ``rx_qN_*`` + * ``tx_qN*`` -> ``tx_qN_*`` + +* ethdev: Renamed internal functions: * ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process()`` -> ``rte_eth_dev_callback_process()`` * ``_rte_eth_dev_reset`` -> ``rte_eth_dev_internal_reset()`` @@ -306,6 +387,32 @@ API Changes * vhost: Moved vDPA APIs from experimental to stable. +* vhost: Add a new function ``rte_vhost_crypto_driver_start`` to be called + instead of ``rte_vhost_driver_start`` by crypto applications. + +* 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. @@ -385,6 +492,13 @@ ABI Changes * ``ethdev`` internal functions are marked with ``__rte_internal`` tag. +* eventdev: Following structures are modified to support DLB/DLB2 PMDs + and future extensions: + + * ``rte_event_dev_info`` + * ``rte_event_dev_config`` + * ``rte_event_port_conf`` + * sched: Added new fields to ``struct rte_sched_subport_port_params``.