From: Adrien Mazarguil Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:42:45 +0000 (+0200) Subject: doc: add mlx4 release notes for version 2.1 X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~8503 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8ffaa0a8098ac435976915b85b5c34bbf99acf56;p=dpdk.git doc: add mlx4 release notes for version 2.1 Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil [Thomas: merged with new release notes style] Acked-by: John McNamara --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_1.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_1.rst index ed026ef70c..103a5ee88d 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_1.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_1.rst @@ -293,6 +293,15 @@ New Features series of 10G/40G adapters. +* **Enhanced support for Mellanox ConnectX-3 driver (mlx4).** + + * Support Mellanox OFED 3.0. + * Improved performance for both RX and TX operations. + * Better link status information. + * Outer L3/L4 checksum offload support. + * Inner L3/L4 checksum offload support for VXLAN. + + * **Enabled VMXNET3 vlan filtering.** Added support for the VLAN filter functionality of the VMXNET3 interface. @@ -931,6 +940,9 @@ Resolved Issues improve performance. +* **mlx4: Fix compilation as a shared library and on 32 bit platforms.** + + * **mlx4: Fix possible crash on scattered mbuf allocation failure.** Fixes issue where failing to allocate a segment, ``mlx4_rx_burst_sp()``