Added the new ``ionic`` net driver for Pensando Ethernet Network Adapters.
See the :doc:`../nics/ionic` NIC guide for more details on this new driver.
-* **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver**
+* **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.**
Updated Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including:
Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
- * Added support for MAC rules on specific port.
+ * Added support for MAC rules on a specific port.
* Added support for MAC/VLAN with TCP/UDP in switch rule.
* Added support for 1/10G device.
- * Added support for API rte_eth_tx_done_cleanup.
+ * Added support for API ``rte_eth_tx_done_cleanup``.
* **Updated Intel iavf driver.**
* **Updated the Intel ixgbe driver.**
- * Added support for API rte_eth_tx_done_cleanup.
+ Updated ixgbe PMD with new features and improvements, including:
+
+ * Added support for API ``rte_eth_tx_done_cleanup()``.
* Added support setting VF MAC address by PF driver.
* Added support for setting the link to specific speed.
* Extended PHY access AQ cmd.
* Added support for reading LPI counters.
* Added support for Energy Efficient Ethernet.
- * Added support for API rte_eth_tx_done_cleanup.
+ * Added support for API ``rte_eth_tx_done_cleanup()``.
* Added support for VF multiple queues interrupt.
* Added support for setting the link to specific speed.
* Removed limitation of matching on tagged/untagged packets (when using DV flow engine).
* Added BlueField-2 integrated ConnectX-6 Dx device support.
-* **Add new vDPA PMD based on Mellanox devices**
+* **Add new vDPA PMD based on Mellanox devices.**
Added a new Mellanox vDPA (``mlx5_vdpa``) PMD.
See the :doc:`../vdpadevs/mlx5` guide for more details on this driver.
* **Added algorithms to cryptodev API.**
+ Added new algorithms to the cryptodev API:
+
* ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) is added to
asymmetric crypto library specifications.
* ECPM (Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication) is added to
* **Added synchronous Crypto burst API.**
- A new API is introduced in crypto library to handle synchronous cryptographic
- operations allowing to achieve performance gain for cryptodevs which use
+ A new API has been introduced in the crypto library to handle synchronous cryptographic
+ operations allowing it to achieve performance gains for cryptodevs which use
CPU based acceleration, such as Intel AES-NI. An implementation for aesni_gcm
cryptodev is provided. The IPsec example application and ipsec library itself
were changed to allow utilization of this new feature.
(generation) and cipher-hash (verification) requests (e.g. SNOW3G + ZUC or
ZUC + AES CTR) in QAT PMD possible when running on GEN3 QAT hardware.
Such algorithm combinations are not supported on GEN1/GEN2 hardware
- and executing the request returns RTE_CRYPTO_OP_STATUS_INVALID_SESSION.
+ and executing the request returns ``RTE_CRYPTO_OP_STATUS_INVALID_SESSION``.
* **Queue-pairs are now thread-safe on Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) PMD.**
* **Updated the ZUC PMD.**
- * Transistioned underlying library from libSSO ZUC to intel-ipsec-mb
+ * Transitioned underlying library from libSSO ZUC to intel-ipsec-mb
library (minimum version required 0.53).
* Removed dynamic library limitation, so PMD can be built as a shared
object now.
* **Updated the KASUMI PMD.**
- * Transistioned underlying library from libSSO KASUMI to intel-ipsec-mb
+ * Transitioned underlying library from libSSO KASUMI to intel-ipsec-mb
library (minimum version required 0.53).
* **Updated the SNOW3G PMD.**
- * Transistioned underlying library from libSSO SNOW3G to intel-ipsec-mb
+ * Transitioned underlying library from libSSO SNOW3G to intel-ipsec-mb
library (minimum version required 0.53).
* **Changed armv8 crypto PMD external dependency.**
- armv8 crypto PMD now depends on Arm crypto library, and Marvell's
- armv8 crypto library is not used anymore. Library name is changed
+ Changed armv8 crypto PMD external dependency. The
+ armv8 crypto PMD now depends on the Arm crypto library, and Marvell's
+ armv8 crypto library is not used anymore. The library name has been changed
from armv8_crypto to AArch64crypto.
* **Added inline IPsec support to Marvell OCTEON TX2 PMD.**
- Added inline IPsec support to Marvell OCTEON TX2 PMD. With the feature,
- applications would be able to offload entire IPsec offload to the hardware.
+ Added inline IPsec support to Marvell OCTEON TX2 PMD. With this feature,
+ applications will be able to offload entire IPsec offload to the hardware.
For the configured sessions, hardware will do the lookup and perform
- decryption and IPsec transformation. For the outbound path, application
- can submit a plain packet to the PMD, and it would be sent out on wire
+ decryption and IPsec transformation. For the outbound path, applications
+ can submit a plain packet to the PMD, and it will be sent out on the wire
after doing encryption and IPsec transformation of the packet.
* **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 End Point rawdev PMD.**
* **Added event mode to l3fwd sample application.**
- Add event device support for ``l3fwd`` sample application. It demonstrates
+ Added event device support for the ``l3fwd`` sample application. It demonstrates
usage of poll and event mode IO mechanism under a single application.
* **Added cycle-count mode to the compression performance tool.**
* **Added OpenWrt howto guide.**
- Added document describes how to enable DPDK on OpenWrt in both virtual and
- physical machine.
+ Added document which describes how to enable DPDK on OpenWrt in both virtual and
+ physical machines.
Removed Items
* **Disabled building all the Linux kernel modules by default.**
- In order to remove the build time dependency with Linux kernel,
+ In order to remove the build time dependency on the Linux kernel,
the Technical Board decided to disable all the kernel modules
by default from 20.02 version.
The internal tail write coalescing feature was removed as not compatible with
dual-thread feature. It was replaced with a threshold feature. At busy times
if only a small number of packets can be enqueued, each enqueue causes
- an expensive MMIO write. These MMIO write occurrences can be optimised by using
- the new threshold parameter on process start. Please see qat documentation for
+ an expensive MMIO write. These MMIO write occurrences can be optimized by using
+ the new threshold parameter on process start. Please see QAT documentation for
more details.
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+* No change in this release.
+
ABI Changes
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* No change, kept ABI v20. DPDK 20.02 is compatible with DPDK 19.11.
-Known Issues
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- * **Add title in present tense with full stop.**
-
- Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the known issue
- in the present tense. Add information on any known workarounds.
-
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