DPDK Release 16.04
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DPDK Release 16.07
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EAL
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counter. This lead to a memory leak of the direct mbuf.
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* **Added software parser for packet type.**
* Added a new function ``rte_pktmbuf_read()`` to read the packet data from an
The config option ``RTE_MACHINE`` can be used to pass code names to the compiler via the ``-march`` flag.
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Drivers
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* **enic: Fixed high driver overhead when servicing Rx queues beyond the first.**
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* **L3fwd-power app does not work properly when Rx vector is enabled.**
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* The driver naming convention has been changed to make them more
consistent. It especially impacts ``--vdev`` arguments. For example
``eth_pcap`` becomes ``net_pcap`` and ``cryptodev_aesni_mb_pmd`` becomes
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DPDK Release 17.02
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* **Added support for representing buses in EAL**
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Drivers
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PCI data resulting in a segmentation fault.
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* **Moved five APIs for VF management from the ethdev to the ixgbe PMD.**
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DPDK Release 17.08
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* **Increase minimum x86 ISA version to SSE4.2.**
Starting with version 17.08, DPDK requires SSE4.2 to run on x86.
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* When using SR-IOV (VF) support with netvsc PMD and the Mellanox mlx5
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* ``AVX-512`` support has been disabled for ``GCC`` builds when ``binutils 2.30``
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* eventdev: Event based Rx adapter callback
The mbuf pointer array in the event eth Rx adapter callback
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- * Device abstraction libs and PMDs
- - ethdev (lib, PMDs)
- - cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
- - eventdev (lib, PMDs)
- - etc
- * Other libs
- * Apps, Examples, Tools (if significant)
-
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- =========================================================
-
* **Added support for --base-virtaddr EAL option to FreeBSD.**
The FreeBSD version of DPDK now also supports setting base virtual address
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* Removed library-level ABI versions. These have been replaced with a single
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- =========================================================
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- =========================================================
-
* policy: Please note the revisions to the :doc:`../contributing/abi_policy`
introducing major ABI versions, with DPDK 19.11 becoming the first major
version ``v20``. ABI changes to add new features continue to be permitted in
Shared Library Versions
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- =========================================================
-
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.. code-block:: diff
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* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Intel\ |reg| NICs combinations
* CPU
DPDK Release 20.02
==================
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* No change in this release.
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- =========================================================
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* No change, kept ABI v20. DPDK 20.02 is compatible with DPDK 19.11.
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- =========================================================
-
* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Intel\ |reg| NICs combinations
* CPU
DPDK Release 20.05
==================
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- =========================================================
-
* mempool: The API of ``rte_mempool_populate_iova()`` and
``rte_mempool_populate_virt()`` changed to return 0 instead of ``-EINVAL``
when there is not enough room to store one object.
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- =========================================================
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* No ABI change that would break compatibility with DPDK 20.02 and 19.11.
Tested Platforms
----------------
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* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Broadcom\ |reg| NICs combinations
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DPDK Release 20.08
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-
* ``rte_page_sizes`` enumeration is replaced with ``RTE_PGSIZE_xxx`` defines.
* vhost: The API of ``rte_vhost_host_notifier_ctrl`` was changed to be per
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* No ABI change that would break compatibility with 19.11.
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-
* **mlx5 PMD does not work on Power 9 with OFED 5.1-0.6.6.0.**
Consider using the newer OFED releases, the previous
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- =========================================================
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* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Intel\ |reg| NICs combinations
* CPU
DPDK Release 20.11
==================
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* build: Support for the Make build system has been removed from DPDK.
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* eal: Removed the unimplemented function ``rte_dump_registers()``.
* ``ethdev`` changes
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- =======================================================
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* CPU
DPDK Release 21.02
==================
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* The internal header files ``rte_ethdev_driver.h``, ``rte_ethdev_vdev.h`` and
``rte_ethdev_pci.h`` are no longer installed as part of the DPDK
``ninja install`` action and are renamed to ``ethdev_driver.h``,
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* The experimental function ``rte_telemetry_init`` has been removed from the
Tested Platforms
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- Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
- =======================================================
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* CPU
DPDK Release 21.05
==================
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- - etc
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-
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* eal: The experimental TLS API added in ``rte_thread.h`` has been renamed
from ``rte_thread_tls_*`` to ``rte_thread_*`` to avoid naming redundancy
and confusion with the transport layer security term.
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* No ABI change that would break compatibility with 20.11.
* The experimental function ``rte_telemetry_legacy_register`` has been
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- with this release.
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* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Intel\ |reg| NICs combinations
* CPU
DPDK Release 21.08
==================
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New Features
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* **Added auxiliary bus support.**
An auxiliary bus provides a way to split a function into child-devices
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* eal: ``rte_strscpy`` sets ``rte_errno`` to ``E2BIG`` in case of string
truncation.
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* No ABI change that would break compatibility with 20.11.
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* **Last mbuf segment not implicitly reset.**
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* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Intel\ |reg| NICs combinations
* CPU
DPDK Release 2.0
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New Features
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DPDK Release 2.1
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New Features
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64M.
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Resolved Issues
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