X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_21_02.rst;h=79fe82f48895164090ab91bfc6b79d4a48dacf75;hb=6a951567c1595203597de7a5736e0dddb5b8dc33;hp=4089909affdc34905958ba32db82a494a0e07e5e;hpb=76f093948fdae3db874d4fe8602f29288f00a540;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst index 4089909aff..79fe82f488 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst @@ -55,22 +55,108 @@ New Features Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ======================================================= +* **Added new ethdev API for PMD power management.** + + Added ``rte_eth_get_monitor_addr()``, to be used in conjunction with + ``rte_power_monitor()`` to enable automatic power management for PMDs. + +* **Added Ethernet PMD power management helper API.** + + A new helper API has been added to make using Ethernet PMD power management + easier for the user: ``rte_power_ethdev_pmgmt_queue_enable()``. Three power + management schemes are supported initially: + + * Power saving based on UMWAIT instruction (x86 only) + * Power saving based on ``rte_pause()`` (generic) or TPAUSE instruction (x86 only) + * Power saving based on frequency scaling through the ``librte_power`` library + +* **Added GENEVE TLV option in rte_flow.** + + Added support for matching and raw encap/decap of GENEVE TLV option. + +* **Added support of modify field action in the flow API.** + + Added modify action support 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 + another field, addition and subtraction using an immediate value. + * **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.** Updated the Broadcom bnxt driver with fixes and improvements, including: * Added support for Stingray2 device. +* **Updated Cisco enic driver.** + + * Added support for 64B completion queue entries + +* **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. + +* **Updated Intel iavf driver.** + + Updated iavf PMD with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added support for FDIR/RSS packet steering for eCPRI flow. + * Added support for FDIR TCP/UDP pattern without input set. + * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.** Updated the Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including: * 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 E-Switch mirroring and jump action in the same flow. + +* **Updated Wangxun txgbe driver.** + + Updated the Wangxun txgbe driver with new features and improvements, including: + + * Add support for generic flow API. + * Add support for traffic manager. + * Add support for IPsec. * **Updated GSO support.** * Added inner UDP/IPv4 support for VXLAN IPv4 GSO. +* **Added enqueue & 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 + for every enqueue/dequeue operation. + +* **Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.** + + * Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD lookaside protocol offload for IPsec with + ESN and anti-replay support. + * Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD with CN98xx support. + * Added support for aes-cbc sha1-hmac cipher combination in OCTEON TX2 crypto + PMD lookaside protocol offload for IPsec. + * Added support for aes-cbc sha256-128-hmac cipher combination in OCTEON TX2 + crypto PMD lookaside protocol offload for IPsec. + +* **Added mlx5 compress PMD.** + + Added a new compress PMD driver for Bluefield 2 adapters. + + See the :doc:`../compressdevs/mlx5` for more details. + +* **Added support for build-time checking of header includes.** + + A new build option ``check_includes`` has been added, which, when enabled, + will perform build-time checking on DPDK public header files, to ensure none + are missing dependent header includes. This feature, disabled by default, is + intended for use by developers contributing to the DPDK SDK itself, and is + integrated into the build scripts and automated CI for patch contributions. + Removed Items ------------- @@ -84,11 +170,28 @@ Removed Items Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ======================================================= +* The internal header files ``rte_ethdev_driver.h``, ``rte_ethdev_vdev.h`` and + ``rte_ethdev_pci.h`` are no longer installed as part of the DPDK + ``ninja install`` action and are renamed to ``ethdev_driver.h``, + ``ethdev_vdev.h`` and ``ethdev_pci.h`` respectively in the source tree, to + reflect the fact that they are non-public headers. + +* The internal header files ``rte_eventdev_pmd.h``, ``rte_eventdev_pmd_vdev.h`` + and ``rte_eventdev_pmd_pci.h`` are no longer installed as part of the DPDK + ``ninja install`` action and are renamed to ``eventdev_pmd.h``, + ``eventdev_pmd_vdev.h`` and ``eventdev_pmd_pci.h`` respectively in the source + tree, to reflect the fact that they are non-public headers. + * Removed support for NetXtreme devices belonging to ``BCM573xx and BCM5740x`` families. Specifically the support for the following Broadcom PCI device IDs ``0x16c8, 0x16c9, 0x16ca, 0x16ce, 0x16cf, 0x16df, 0x16d0,`` ``0x16d1, 0x16d2, 0x16d4, 0x16d5, 0x16e7, 0x16e8, 0x16e9`` has been removed. +* The ``check-includes.sh`` script for checking DPDK header files has been + removed, being replaced by the ``check_includes`` build option described + above. + + API Changes ----------- @@ -104,6 +207,16 @@ API Changes Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ======================================================= +* config: Removed the old macros, included in ``rte_config.h``, + to indicate which DPDK libraries and drivers are built. + The new macros are generated by meson in a standardized format: + ``RTE_LIB_`` and ``RTE__``, where ``NAME`` is + the upper-case component name, e.g. ``EAL``, ``ETHDEV``, ``VIRTIO``, + and ``CLASS`` is the upper-case driver class, e.g. ``NET``, ``CRYPTO``. + +* cryptodev: The structure ``rte_cryptodev`` has been updated with pointers + for adding enqueue and dequeue callbacks. + ABI Changes -----------