X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_2_2.rst;h=9a6d15e82ae9227672be34a250cd6f0203acc718;hb=cb60ede6e3b6a87273e6cd565c56c2338ef811c8;hp=abe57b450a69043af10c8f2f2253a349809c480c;hpb=182f36e3a060e8c0a046f9815a44d971dc4e2cf7;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst index abe57b450a..9a6d15e82a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst @@ -4,10 +4,113 @@ DPDK Release 2.2 New Features ------------ +* **Added e1000 Rx interrupt support.** + +* **Added igb TSO support for both PF and VF.** + +* **RSS enhancement on Intel x550 NIC** + + * Support 512 entries RSS redirection table. + * Support per VF RSS redirection table. + +* **Flow director enhancement on Intel x550 NIC** + + * Add 2 new flow director modes on x550. + * One is MAC VLAN mode, the other is tunnel mode. + +* **Added i40e vector RX/TX.** + +* **Added i40e flow control support.** + +* **Added fm10k TSO support for both PF and VF.** + +* **New NIC Boulder Rapid support.** + + Boulder Rapid is a new NIC of Intel's fm10k family. + +* **Enhanced support for the Chelsio CXGBE driver.** + + * Added support for Jumbo Frames. + * Optimize forwarding performance for Chelsio T5 40GbE cards. + +* **Added support for Mellanox ConnectX-4 adapters (mlx5).** + + The mlx5 poll-mode driver implements support for Mellanox ConnectX-4 EN + and Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx EN families of 10/25/40/50/100 Gb/s adapters. + + Like mlx4, this PMD is only available for Linux and is disabled by default + due to external dependencies (libibverbs and libmlx5). + +* **Added vhost-user multiple queue support.** + +* **Added port hotplug support to xenvirt.** + Resolved Issues --------------- +EAL +~~~ + +* **eal/linux: Fixed epoll timeout.** + + Fixed issue where the ``rte_epoll_wait()`` function didn't return when the + underlying call to ``epoll_wait()`` timed out. + + +Drivers +~~~~~~~ + +* **igb: Fixed IEEE1588 frame identification in I210.** + + Fixed issue where the flag PKT_RX_IEEE1588_PTP was not being set + in Intel I210 NIC, as EtherType in RX descriptor is in bits 8:10 of + Packet Type and not in the default bits 0:2. + +* **ixgbe: Fixed issue with X550 DCB.** + + Fixed a DCB issue with x550 where for 8 TCs (Traffic Classes), if a packet + with user priority 6 or 7 was injected to the NIC, then the NIC would only + put 3 packets into the queue. There was also a similar issue for 4 TCs. + +* **ixgbe: Removed burst size restriction of vector RX.** + + Fixed issue where a burst size less than 32 didn't receive anything. + +* **i40e: Fixed base driver allocation when not using first numa node.** + + Fixed i40e issue that occurred when a DPDK application didn't initialize + ports if memory wasn't available on socket 0. + +* **vhost: Fixed Qemu shutdown.** + + Fixed issue with libvirt ``virsh destroy`` not killing the VM. + +* **virtio: Fixed crash after changing link state.** + + Fixed io permission in the interrupt handler. + +* **virtio: Fixed crash when releasing queue.** + + Fixed issue when releasing null control queue. + + +Libraries +~~~~~~~~~ + +* **hash: Fixed memory allocation of Cuckoo Hash key table.** + + Fixed issue where an incorrect Cuckoo Hash key table size could be + calculated limiting the size to 4GB. + + +Examples +~~~~~~~~ + + +Other +~~~~~ + Known Issues ------------ @@ -16,17 +119,29 @@ Known Issues API Changes ----------- +* The deprecated flow director API is removed. + It was replaced by rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl(). + +* The dcb_queue is renamed to dcb_tc in following dcb configuration + structures: rte_eth_dcb_rx_conf, rte_eth_dcb_tx_conf, + rte_eth_vmdq_dcb_conf, rte_eth_vmdq_dcb_tx_conf. + * The function rte_eal_pci_close_one() is removed. It was replaced by rte_eal_pci_detach(). * The deprecated ACL API ipv4vlan is removed. +* The deprecated hash function rte_jhash2() is removed. + It was replaced by rte_jhash_32b(). + * The deprecated KNI functions are removed: rte_kni_create(), rte_kni_get_port_id() and rte_kni_info_get(). * The deprecated ring PMD functions are removed: rte_eth_ring_pair_create() and rte_eth_ring_pair_attach(). +* The devargs union field virtual is renamed to virt for C++ compatibility. + ABI Changes ----------- @@ -44,6 +159,15 @@ ABI Changes * The LPM structure is changed. The deprecated field mem_location is removed. +* librte_table LPM: A new parameter to hold the table name will be added to + the LPM table parameter structure. + +* librte_port: Macros to access the packet meta-data stored within the packet + buffer has been adjusted to cover the packet mbuf structure. + +* librte_cfgfile: Allow longer names and values by increasing the constants + CFG_NAME_LEN and CFG_VALUE_LEN to 64 and 256 respectively. + Shared Library Versions ----------------------- @@ -54,11 +178,11 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. + libethdev.so.2 + librte_acl.so.2 - librte_cfgfile.so.1 + + librte_cfgfile.so.2 librte_cmdline.so.1 librte_distributor.so.1 + librte_eal.so.2 - librte_hash.so.1 + + librte_hash.so.2 librte_ip_frag.so.1 librte_ivshmem.so.1 librte_jobstats.so.1 @@ -71,11 +195,11 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version. librte_pipeline.so.1 librte_pmd_bond.so.1 + librte_pmd_ring.so.2 - librte_port.so.1 + + librte_port.so.2 librte_power.so.1 librte_reorder.so.1 librte_ring.so.1 librte_sched.so.1 - librte_table.so.1 + + librte_table.so.2 librte_timer.so.1 librte_vhost.so.1