X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_21_02.rst;h=1813fe767ac66a0470466a406cefa4931380fa22;hb=e34e2f55a793c8393fb34afc5b0e19518c713e65;hp=7d49662a881ea29e8f0d7a57cb3bc217c9210f8f;hpb=084c01643a763906638032c5990ff02e18f935ed;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst index 7d49662a88..1813fe767a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst @@ -20,6 +20,16 @@ DPDK Release 21.02 make doc-guides-html xdg-open build/doc/html/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.html +.. note:: + + A **dependency** has been added for building DPDK on Linux or FreeBSD: + the Python module **pyelftools** (version **0.22** or greater), + often packaged as python3-pyelftools, is required. + + If not available as a distribution package, it can be installed with:: + + pip3 install pyelftools + New Features ------------ @@ -74,9 +84,9 @@ New Features Added support for matching and raw encap/decap of GENEVE TLV option. -* **Added support of modify field action in the flow API.** +* **Added support for Modify field action in the flow API.** - Added modify action support to perform various operations on + Added "modify" action support to rte_flow to perform various operations on any arbitrary header field (as well as mark, metadata or tag values): ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_MODIFY_FIELD``. Supported operations are: overwriting a field with the content from @@ -90,22 +100,22 @@ New Features * **Updated Cisco enic driver.** - * Added support for 64B completion queue entries + * Added support for 64B completion queue entries. * **Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver.** - * Added support for traffic management + * Added support for traffic management. * **Updated Intel i40e driver.** - * Added support on Windows. + * Added Intel i40e support on Windows. * **Updated Intel ice driver.** Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including: * Added Double VLAN support for DCF switch QinQ filtering. - * Added support for UDP dynamic port assignment for eCPRI tunnel in DCF. + * Added support for UDP dynamic port assignment for eCPRI tunnels in DCF. * **Updated Intel iavf driver.** @@ -120,9 +130,9 @@ New Features * Introduced basic support on Windows. * Added GTP PDU session container matching and raw encap/decap. - * Added support for RSS action in the sample sub-actions list. + * Added support for a RSS action in the sample sub-actions list. * Added support for E-Switch mirroring and jump action in the same flow. - * Added support to handle modify action in correct order regarding the + * Added support to handle the modify action in correct order regarding the mirroring action on E-Switch. * Enlarged the number of flow priorities to 21844 (0 - 21843) for ingress or egress flow groups greater than 0 and for any transfer flow group. @@ -152,10 +162,10 @@ New Features * Added inner UDP/IPv4 support for VXLAN IPv4 GSO. -* **Added enqueue & dequeue callback APIs for cryptodev library.** +* **Added enqueue and dequeue callback APIs for cryptodev library.** - Cryptodev library is added with enqueue & dequeue callback APIs to - enable applications to add/remove user callbacks which gets called + The Cryptodev library has been enhanced with enqueue and dequeue callback APIs to + enable applications to add/remove user callbacks which get called for every enqueue/dequeue operation. * **Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.** @@ -176,10 +186,17 @@ New Features * **Added python script to run crypto perf tests and graph the results.** - A new python script has been added to automate running crypto performance + A new Python script has been added to automate running crypto performance tests and output graphed results to PDF files. See the :doc:`../tools/cryptoperf` guide for more details. +* **Added Windows support to pmdinfogen.** + + PMD information strings were added for Windows as well as for other OS. + Extracting them from Windows DLL is not yet supported. + The build-time tool pmdinfogen was rewritten in Python, + thus libelf dependency was replaced with pyelftools as new build dependency. + * **Added support for build-time checking of header includes.** A new build option ``check_includes`` has been added, which, when enabled, @@ -272,21 +289,6 @@ ABI Changes application need use it. -Known Issues ------------- - -.. This section should contain new known issues in this release. Sample format: - - * **Add title in present tense with full stop.** - - Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the known issue - in the present tense. Add information on any known workarounds. - - This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it. - Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. - ======================================================= - - Tested Platforms ---------------- @@ -546,3 +548,78 @@ Tested Platforms * CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (AltArch) * MLNX_OFED 5.2-2.2.0 and above * DPDK application running on Arm cores + +* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Broadcom\ |reg| NICs combinations + + * CPU: + + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2667 v3 @ 3.20GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6142 CPU @ 2.60GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E3-1270 v3 @ 3.50GHz + * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6134M CPU @ 3.20GHz + + * OS: + + * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 8.1 + * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 + * Centos 8.1 + * Centos 7.8 + * Centos 7.7 + + * upstream kernel: + + * Linux 5.3.4 + + * NICs: + + * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P225p (2x25G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8 + * Firmware version: 214.4.114.0 and above + + * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P425p (4x25G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16 + * Firmware version: 218.0.124.0 and above + + * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P2100G (2x100G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16 + * Firmware version: 218.0.124.0 and above + + * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P425p (4x25G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16 + * Firmware version: 218.0.124.0 and above + + * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P2100G (2x100G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16 + * Firmware version: 218.0.124.0 and above + +* Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-S\ |reg| Series SmartNIC + + * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-S\ |reg| Series PS225-H16 SmartNIC (2x25G) + + * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8 + * Firmware version: 218.1.143.0 + + * Embedded software: + + * Broadcom Yocto Linux + * Kernel version: 4.14.196 + * DPDK application running on 8 Arm Cortex-A72 cores + +* NXP ARMv8 SoCs (with integrated NICs) + + * SoC: + + * LX2xxx, LS2xxx, LS10xx + + * OS (based on NXP LSDK-20.04): + + * Kernel version: 4.19.90 + * Kernel version: 5.4.47 + * Ubuntu 18.04