From 93a91beef7b878baf804b5a236b8deab85cc4950 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shahaf Shuler Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:32:00 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] doc: update release notes for mlx5 driver Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler Acked-by: John McNamara --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst index a2d5fa87b2..5d2ea99008 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst @@ -59,6 +59,20 @@ New Features "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this new driver. +* **Updated mlx5 driver.** + + Updated the mlx5 driver including the following changes: + + * Enabled PMD to run on top of upstream linux kernel and rdma-core libs. + By that removed the dependency on specific Mellanox OFED libraries. + * Improved PMD latency performance. + * Improved PMD memory footprint. + * Supported vectorized Rx/Tx burst for ARMv8. + * Supported secondary process. + * Supported flow counters. + * Supported Rx hardware timestamp offload. + * Supported device removal event. + * **Added SoftNIC PMD.** Added new SoftNIC PMD. This virtual device offers applications a software -- 2.20.1