From: Mohammad Abdul Awal Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 16:12:22 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: add VXLAN and NVGRE encapsulation in release notes X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c865e26bd3541d93541d42567d5277d9bad9d434;p=dpdk.git doc: add VXLAN and NVGRE encapsulation in release notes Signed-off-by: Mohammad Abdul Awal Acked-by: John McNamara --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst index 8e5846ff3f..86bbec506f 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst @@ -94,6 +94,15 @@ New Features spawned on an as needed basis through configuration parameters passed to the driver of the underlying device using devargs. +* **Added support for VXLAN and NVGRE tunnel endpoint.** + + New actions types have been added to support encapsulation and decapsulation + operations for a tunnel endpoint. The new action types are + RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_[VXLAN/NVGRE]_ENCAP, RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_[VXLAN/NVGRE]_DECAP, + RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_JUMP. New item type RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_MARK has been + added to match a flow against a previously marked flow. It also introduced shared + counter to flow API to counte for a group of flows. + * **Added PMD-recommended Tx and Rx parameters** Applications can now query drivers for device-tuned values of @@ -457,6 +466,14 @@ API Changes redirect matching traffic to a specific physical port. * PORT_ID pattern item and actions were added to match and target DPDK port IDs at a higher level than PHY_PORT. + * RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_[VXLAN/NVGRE]_ENCAP action items were added to support + tunnel encapsulation operation for VXLAN and NVGRE type tunnel endpoint. + * RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_[VXLAN/NVGRE]_DECAP action items were added to support + tunnel decapsulation operation for VXLAN and NVGRE type tunnel endpoint. + * RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_JUMP action item was added to support a matched flow + to be redirected to the specific group. + * RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_MARK item type has been added to match a flow against + a previously marked flow. * ethdev: change flow APIs regarding count action: * ``rte_flow_create()`` API count action now requires the ``struct rte_flow_action_count``.