X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_21_11.rst;h=2e4fd9ac8fb14820c2c0dec81c764b5749347426;hb=34fd4373ce76efd0236e59397c495762c2ec9e64;hp=26ecd6deccc8e2b43e3675a40d95ee9cabf7eb5d;hpb=dd22740cc291568f354279f5c38eef4a1d1dd3a0;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst index 26ecd6decc..2e4fd9ac8f 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ New Features * Added Intel iavf support on Windows. * Added IPv4 and L4 (TCP/UDP/SCTP) checksum hash support in RSS flow. * Added PPPoL2TPv2oUDP RSS hash based on inner IP address and TCP/UDP port. + * Added Intel iavf inline crypto support. * **Updated Intel ice driver.** @@ -189,6 +190,7 @@ New Features * Added implicit mempool registration to avoid data path hiccups (opt-out). * Added NIC offloads for the PMD on Windows (TSO, VLAN strip, CRC keep). + * Added socket direct mode bonding support. * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.** @@ -197,6 +199,18 @@ New Features * Added port representors support on SN1000 SmartNICs * Added flow API transfer proxy support +* **Added power monitor API in vhost library.** + + Added an API to support power monitor in vhost library. + +* **Updated virtio PMD.** + + * Initial support for RSS receive mode has been added to the Virtio PMD, + with the capability for the application to configure the hash key, + the RETA and the hash types. + Virtio hash reporting is yet to be added. + * Added power monitor support in virtio PMD. + * **Updated Marvell cnxk crypto PMD.** * Added AES-CBC SHA1-HMAC support in lookaside protocol (IPsec) for CN10K. @@ -222,6 +236,32 @@ New Features * Added PDCP short MAC-I support. * Added raw vector datapath API support. +* **Added framework for consolidation of IPsec_MB dependent SW Crypto PMDs.** + + * The IPsec_MB framework was added to share common code between Intel + SW Crypto PMDs that depend on the intel-ipsec-mb library. + * Multiprocess support was added for the consolidated PMDs, + which requires v1.1 of the intel-ipsec-mb library. + * The following PMDs were moved into a single source folder, + however their usage and EAL options remain unchanged. + * AESNI_MB PMD. + * AESNI_GCM PMD. + * KASUMI PMD. + * SNOW3G PMD. + * ZUC PMD. + * CHACHA20_POLY1305 - A new PMD added. + +* **Updated the aesni_mb crypto PMD.** + + * Added support for ZUC-EEA3-256 and ZUC-EIA3-256. + +* **Added digest appended ops support for Snow3G PMD.** + + * Added support for out-of-place auth-cipher operations that encrypt + the digest along with the rest of the raw data. + * Added support for partially encrypted digest when using auth-cipher + operations. + * **Updated the ACC100 bbdev PMD.** Added support for more comprehensive CRC options. @@ -235,6 +275,10 @@ New Features * Added a new baseband PMD driver for NXP LA12xx Software defined radio. * See the :doc:`../bbdevs/la12xx` for more details. +* **Updated Mellanox regex driver.** + + * Added support for new ROF file format. + * **Updated IPsec library.** * Added support for more AEAD algorithms AES_CCM, CHACHA20_POLY1305 @@ -243,6 +287,10 @@ New Features * Added support for SA telemetry. * Added support for setting a non default starting ESN value. +* **Added optimized Toeplitz hash implementation.** + + Added optimized Toeplitz hash implementation using Galois Fields New Instructions. + * **Added multi-process support for testpmd.** Added command-line options to specify total number of processes and @@ -265,6 +313,7 @@ New Features * Added tests to validate packets hard expiry. * Added tests to verify tunnel header verification in IPsec inbound. * Added tests to verify inner checksum. + * Added tests for CHACHA20_POLY1305 PMD, including a new testcase for SGL OOP. * **Revised packet capture framework.** @@ -278,6 +327,15 @@ New Features * Pcapng format with timestamps and meta-data. * Fixes packet capture with stripped VLAN tags. +* **Added ASan support.** + + `AddressSanitizer + `_ (ASan) + is a widely-used debugging tool to detect memory access errors. + It helps to detect issues like use-after-free, various kinds of buffer + overruns in C/C++ programs, and other similar errors, as well as + printing out detailed debug information whenever an error is detected. + Removed Items ------------- @@ -336,6 +394,10 @@ API Changes Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ======================================================= +* eal: The lcore state ``FINISHED`` is removed from + the ``enum rte_lcore_state_t``. + The lcore state ``WAIT`` is enough to represent the same state. + * kvargs: The experimental function ``rte_kvargs_strcmp()`` has been removed. Its usages have been replaced by a new function ``rte_kvargs_get_with_value()``. @@ -363,6 +425,8 @@ API Changes * mempool: The mempool API macros ``MEMPOOL_PG_*`` are deprecated and will be removed in DPDK 22.11. +* mbuf: The mbuf offload flags ``PKT_*`` are renamed as ``RTE_MBUF_F_*``. A + compatibility layer will be kept until DPDK 22.11. * net: Renamed ``s_addr`` and ``d_addr`` fields of ``rte_ether_hdr`` structure to ``src_addr`` and ``dst_addr``, respectively. @@ -412,6 +476,9 @@ API Changes * eventdev: Moved memory used by timer adapters to hugepage. This will prevent TLB misses if any and aligns to memory structure of other subsystems. +* fib: Added the ``rib_ext_sz`` field to ``rte_fib_conf`` and ``rte_fib6_conf`` + so that user can specify the size of the RIB extension inside the FIB. + ABI Changes ----------- @@ -428,6 +495,9 @@ ABI Changes Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ======================================================= +* ethdev: All enums & macros updated to have ``RTE_ETH`` prefix and structures + updated to have ``rte_eth`` prefix. DPDK components updated to use new names. + * 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 @@ -440,6 +510,12 @@ ABI Changes to be transparent for both users (no changes in user app is required) and PMD developers (no changes in PMD is required). +* cryptodev: Made ``rte_cryptodev``, ``rte_cryptodev_data`` private + structures internal to DPDK. ``rte_cryptodevs`` 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