X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_21_11.rst;h=157b623036e53804d61fc0c5f8c6ace3e614cec9;hb=8edb6bc0263e8e7f068a65ea58491c0083aa6332;hp=0970ea4ee6cff8b2de4660d1730bb2e02527b55c;hpb=68977baa750a2a14c8863dea21e34e66d921ba41;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst index 0970ea4ee6..157b623036 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst @@ -75,16 +75,34 @@ New Features operations. * Added multi-process support. +* **Added support to get all MAC addresses of a device.** + + Added ``rte_eth_macaddrs_get`` to allow user to retrieve all Ethernet + addresses assigned to given ethernet port. + * **Added new RSS offload types for IPv4/L4 checksum in RSS flow.** Added macros ETH_RSS_IPV4_CHKSUM and ETH_RSS_L4_CHKSUM, now IPv4 and TCP/UDP/SCTP header checksum field can be used as input set for RSS. +* **Added ethdev support to control delivery of Rx metadata from the HW to the PMD.** + + A new API, ``rte_eth_rx_metadata_negotiate()``, was added. + The following parts of Rx metadata were defined: + + * ``RTE_ETH_RX_METADATA_USER_FLAG`` + * ``RTE_ETH_RX_METADATA_USER_MARK`` + * ``RTE_ETH_RX_METADATA_TUNNEL_ID`` + * **Updated af_packet ethdev driver.** * Default VLAN strip behavior was changed. VLAN tag won't be stripped unless ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_VLAN_STRIP`` offload is enabled. +* **Updated AF_XDP PMD.** + + * Disabled secondary process support. + * **Updated Broadcom bnxt PMD.** * Added flow offload support for Thor. @@ -119,6 +137,13 @@ New Features Updated the Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including: * Added implicit mempool registration to avoid data path hiccups (opt-out). + * Added NIC offloads for the PMD on Windows (TSO, VLAN strip, CRC keep). + +* **Updated Solarflare network PMD.** + + Updated the Solarflare ``sfc_efx`` driver with changes including: + + * Added port representors support on SN1000 SmartNICs * **Updated Marvell cnxk crypto PMD.** @@ -138,10 +163,12 @@ New Features * Added DES-CBC, AES-XCBC-MAC, AES-CMAC and non-HMAC algo support. * Added PDCP short MAC-I support. + * Added raw vector datapath API support. * **Updated NXP dpaa2_sec crypto PMD.** * Added PDCP short MAC-I support. + * Added raw vector datapath API support. * **Updated the ACC100 bbdev PMD.** @@ -151,12 +178,18 @@ New Features Added support for more comprehensive CRC options. +* **Added NXP LA12xx baseband PMD.** + + * Added a new baseband PMD driver for NXP LA12xx Software defined radio. + * See the :doc:`../bbdevs/la12xx` for more details. + * **Updated IPsec library.** * Added support for more AEAD algorithms AES_CCM, CHACHA20_POLY1305 and AES_GMAC. * Added support for NAT-T / UDP encapsulated ESP. * Added support for SA telemetry. + * Added support for setting a non default starting ESN value. * **Added multi-process support for testpmd.** @@ -167,6 +200,7 @@ New Features * Added support for asymmetric crypto throughput performance measurement. Only modex is supported for now. + * Added support for lookaside IPsec protocol offload throughput measurement. * **Added lookaside protocol (IPsec) tests in dpdk-test.** @@ -210,6 +244,14 @@ Removed Items ``rte_eth_mirror_rule_reset`` along with the associated macros ``ETH_MIRROR_*`` are removed. +* ethdev: Removed ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_done`` API function and its + driver callback. It is replaced by the more complete function + ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_status``. + +* ethdev: Removed deprecated ``shared`` attribute of the + ``struct rte_flow_action_count``. Shared counters should be managed + using indirect actions API (``rte_flow_action_handle_create`` etc). + * i40e: Removed i40evf driver. iavf already became the default VF driver for i40e devices, so there is no need to maintain i40evf. @@ -252,6 +294,9 @@ API Changes * net: Renamed ``s_addr`` and ``d_addr`` fields of ``rte_ether_hdr`` structure to ``src_addr`` and ``dst_addr``, respectively. +* ethdev: Added items ``PORT_REPRESENTOR``, ``REPRESENTED_PORT`` and action + ``PORT_REPRESENTOR`` to flow API. + * cryptodev: The API rte_cryptodev_pmd_is_valid_dev is modified to rte_cryptodev_is_valid_dev as it can be used by the application as well as PMD to check whether the device is valid or not. @@ -268,6 +313,14 @@ API Changes * cryptodev: The field ``dataunit_len`` of the ``struct rte_crypto_cipher_xform`` moved to the end of the structure and extended to ``uint32_t``. +* cryptodev: The structure ``rte_crypto_vec`` was updated to add ``tot_len`` + field to support total buffer length to facilitate protocol offload case. + +* cryptodev: The structure ``rte_crypto_sym_vec`` was updated to add + ``dest_sgl`` to support out of place processing. + +* bbdev: Added device info related to data byte endianness processing. + ABI Changes ----------- @@ -284,6 +337,18 @@ ABI Changes Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ======================================================= +* ethdev: Input parameters for ``eth_rx_queue_count_t`` was changed. + Instead of pointer to ``rte_eth_dev`` and queue index, now it accepts pointer + to internal queue data as input parameter. While this change is transparent + to user, it still counts as an ABI change, as ``eth_rx_queue_count_t`` + is used by public inline function ``rte_eth_rx_queue_count``. + +* ethdev: Made ``rte_eth_dev``, ``rte_eth_dev_data``, ``rte_eth_rxtx_callback`` + private data structures. ``rte_eth_devices[]`` can't be accessed directly + by user any more. While it is an ABI breakage, this change is intended + to be transparent for both users (no changes in user app is required) and + PMD developers (no changes in PMD is required). + * security: ``rte_security_set_pkt_metadata`` and ``rte_security_get_userdata`` routines used by inline outbound and inline inbound security processing were made inline and enhanced to do simple 64-bit set/get for PMDs that do not