X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_21_05.rst;h=1d7a58efcce2d5fe4b551b2f87beba540716cd00;hb=38c2e3240ba822d8ee4cd92d848d7e3a20ecef6e;hp=b21906ccf6d0a847e51a87596d628c1e56027259;hpb=de5eb0a60412cbeac4854329e28baec81154b865;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst index b21906ccf6..1d7a58efcc 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst @@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ New Features Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ======================================================= +* **Added Alpine Linux with musl libc support** + + The distribution Alpine Linux, using musl libc and busybox, + got initial support starting with building DPDK without modification. + * **Added phase-fair lock.** Phase-fair lock provides fairness guarantees. @@ -70,6 +75,8 @@ New Features net, crypto and event PMD's. * Added mempool/cnxk driver which provides the support for the integrated mempool device. + * Added event/cnxk driver which provides the support for integrated event + device. * **Enhanced ethdev representor syntax.** @@ -81,6 +88,29 @@ New Features representor=[[c#]pf#]sf# sf[0,2-1023] /* 1023 SFs. */ representor=[c#]pf# c2pf[0,1] /* 2 PFs on controller 2. */ +* **Added queue state in queried Rx/Tx queue info.** + + * Added new field ``queue_state`` to ``rte_eth_rxq_info`` structure to + provide indicated Rx queue state. + * Added new field ``queue_state`` to ``rte_eth_txq_info`` structure to + provide indicated Tx queue state. + +* **Updated meter API.** + + * Added packet mode in the meter profile parameters data structures + to support metering traffic by packet per second (PPS), + in addition to the initial bytes per second (BPS) mode (value 0). + * Added support of pre-defined meter policy via flow action list per color. + +* **Added packet integrity match to flow rules.** + + * Added ``RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_INTEGRITY`` flow item. + * Added ``rte_flow_item_integrity`` data structure. + +* **Added TCP connection tracking offload in flow API.** + + * Added conntrack item and action for stateful connection offload. + * **Updated Arkville PMD driver.** Updated Arkville net driver with new features and improvements, including: @@ -113,10 +143,16 @@ New Features Updated the Intel iavf driver with new features and improvements, including: * Added flow filter to support GTPU inner L3/L4 fields matching. + * In AVX512 code, added the new RX and TX paths to use the HW offload + features. When the HW offload features are configured to be used, the + offload paths are chosen automatically. In parallel the support of HW + offload features was removed from the legacy AVX512 paths. * **Updated Intel ice driver.** * Added Intel ice support on Windows. + * Added GTPU TEID support for DCF switch filter. + * Added flow priority support for DCF switch filter. * **Updated Marvell OCTEON TX2 ethdev driver.** @@ -127,6 +163,8 @@ New Features Updated the Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including: * Added support for VXLAN and NVGRE encap as sample actions. + * Support push VLAN on ingress traffic and pop VLAN on egress traffic in E-Switch mode. + * Added support for ASO (Advanced Steering Operation) meter. * **Updated NXP DPAA driver.** @@ -146,10 +184,25 @@ New Features * **Enabled vmxnet3 PMD on Windows.** +* **Enabled libpcap-based PMD on Windows.** + + A libpcap distribution, such as Npcap or WinPcap, is required to run the PMD. + * **Updated the AF_XDP driver.** * Added support for preferred busy polling. +* **Added support of multiple data-units in cryptodev API.** + + The cryptodev library has been enhanced to allow operations on multiple + data-units for AES-XTS algorithm, the data-unit length should be set in the + transformation. A capability for it was added too. + +* **Added a cryptodev feature flag to support cipher wrapped keys.** + + A new feature flag has been added to allow application to provide + cipher wrapped keys in session xforms. + * **Updated the OCTEON TX crypto PMD.** * Added support for DIGEST_ENCRYPTED mode in OCTEON TX crypto PMD. @@ -157,6 +210,10 @@ New Features * **Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.** * Added support for DIGEST_ENCRYPTED mode in OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD. + * Added support in lookaside protocol offload mode for IPsec with + UDP encapsulation support for NAT Traversal. + * Added support in lookaside protocol offload mode for IPsec with + IPv4 transport mode. * **Updated Mellanox RegEx PMD.** @@ -175,12 +232,50 @@ New Features the events across multiple stages. * This also reduced the scheduling overhead on a event device. +* **Updated Intel DLB2 driver.** + + * Added support for v2.5 device. + +* **Added Predictable RSS functionality to the Toeplitz hash library.** + + Added feature for finding collisions of the Toeplitz hash function - + the hash function used in NICs to spread the traffic among the queues. + It can be used to get predictable mapping of the flows. + * **Updated testpmd.** * Added a command line option to configure forced speed for Ethernet port. ``dpdk-testpmd -- --eth-link-speed N`` + * Added command to show link flow control info. + ``show port (port_id) flow_ctrl`` * Added command to display Rx queue used descriptor count. ``show port (port_id) rxq (queue_id) desc used count`` + * Added command to cleanup a Tx queue's mbuf on a port. + ``port cleanup (port_id) txq (queue_id) (free_cnt)`` + * Added command to dump internal representation information of single flow. + ``flow dump (port_id) rule (rule_id)`` + * Added commands to create and delete meter policy. + ``add port meter policy (port_id) (policy_id) ...`` + * Added commands to construct conntrack context and relevant indirect + action handle creation, update for conntrack action as well as conntrack + item matching. + +* **Added support for the FIB lookup method in the l3fwd example app.** + + Previously the l3fwd sample app only supported LPM and EM lookup methods, + the app now supports the Forwarding Information Base (FIB) lookup method. + +* **Updated ipsec-secgw sample application.** + + * Updated the ``ipsec-secgw`` sample application with UDP encapsulation + support for NAT Traversal. + +* **Enhanced crypto adapter forward mode.** + + * Added ``rte_event_crypto_adapter_enqueue()`` API to enqueue events to crypto + adapter if forward mode is supported by driver. + * Added support for crypto adapter forward mode in octeontx2 event and crypto + device driver. Removed Items @@ -221,6 +316,34 @@ API Changes * pci: The value ``PCI_ANY_ID`` is marked as deprecated and can be replaced with ``RTE_PCI_ANY_ID``. +* ethdev: Added a ``rte_flow`` pointer parameter to the function + ``rte_flow_dev_dump()`` allowing dump for single flow. + +* cryptodev: The experimental raw data path API for dequeue + ``rte_cryptodev_raw_dequeue_burst`` got a new parameter + ``max_nb_to_dequeue`` to provide flexible control on dequeue. + +* ethdev: The experimental flow API for shared action has been generalized + as a flow action handle used in rules through an indirect action. + The functions ``rte_flow_shared_action_*`` manipulating the action object + are replaced with ``rte_flow_action_handle_*``. + The action ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SHARED`` is deprecated and can be + replaced with ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_INDIRECT``. + +* ethdev: The experimental function ``rte_mtr_policer_actions_update()``, + the enum ``rte_mtr_policer_action``, and the struct members + ``policer_action_recolor_supported`` and ``policer_action_drop_supported`` + have been removed. + +* stack: Lock-free ``rte_stack`` no longer silently ignores push and pop when + it's not supported on the current platform. Instead ``rte_stack_create()`` + fails and ``rte_errno`` is set to ``ENOTSUP``. + +* raw/ioat: The experimental function ``rte_ioat_completed_ops()`` now + supports two additional parameters, ``status`` and ``num_unsuccessful``, + to allow the reporting of errors from hardware when performing copy + operations. + ABI Changes -----------