X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_21_05.rst;h=d054b10793997415e7df4c155bab66190c148688;hb=142778b3702a3acbe8efe2efc17722bfc1a7393d;hp=064810a8f921dc6d19b43b6f673a84c1e0f03e6f;hpb=245efe544d8e322f1cd87403cb4361f9d64e75df;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst index 064810a8f9..d054b10793 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst @@ -75,6 +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.** @@ -109,6 +111,13 @@ New Features * Added conntrack item and action for stateful connection offload. +* **Updated Amazon ENA PMD.** + + The new driver version (v2.3.0) introduced bug fixes and improvements, + including: + + * Changed memcpy mapping to the dpdk-optimized version. + * **Updated Arkville PMD driver.** Updated Arkville net driver with new features and improvements, including: @@ -161,8 +170,13 @@ New Features Updated the Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including: * Added support for VXLAN and NVGRE encap as sample actions. + * Added support for flow COUNT action handle. * Support push VLAN on ingress traffic and pop VLAN on egress traffic in E-Switch mode. + * Added support for pre-defined meter policy API. * Added support for ASO (Advanced Steering Operation) meter. + * Added support for ASO metering by PPS (packet per second). + * Added support for the monitor policy of Power Management API. + * Added support for connection tracking. * **Updated NXP DPAA driver.** @@ -179,6 +193,7 @@ New Features * Added support for txgbevf PMD. * Support device arguments to handle AN training for backplane NICs. + * Added support for VXLAN-GPE. * **Enabled vmxnet3 PMD on Windows.** @@ -190,6 +205,10 @@ New Features * Added support for preferred busy polling. +* **Added support for vhost async packed ring data path.** + + Added packed ring support for async vhost. + * **Added support of multiple data-units in cryptodev API.** The cryptodev library has been enhanced to allow operations on multiple @@ -230,6 +249,10 @@ 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 - @@ -329,6 +352,12 @@ API Changes ``policer_action_recolor_supported`` and ``policer_action_drop_supported`` have been removed. +* vhost: The vhost library currently populates received mbufs from a virtio + driver with Tx offload flags while not filling Rx offload flags. + While this behavior is arguable, it is kept untouched. + A new flag ``RTE_VHOST_USER_NET_COMPLIANT_OL_FLAGS`` has been added to ask + for a behavior compliant with the mbuf offload API. + * 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``.