From 0568dac3b4ec7ea8bed7ffb680e38490caa6868b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shahaf Shuler Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 10:48:34 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] doc: update release notes for mlx drivers Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst index 3dcb625389..40eec3a492 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst @@ -64,6 +64,33 @@ New Features CXGBE VF Poll Mode Driver has been added to run DPDK over Chelsio T5/T6 NIC VF instances. +* **Updated mlx5 driver.** + + Updated the mlx5 driver including the following changes: + + * Introduced Multi-packet Rx. With it, achieved 100Gb/sec with 64B frames. + * Supported to be run by non-root users given reduced set of capabilities + CAP_NET_ADMIN, CAP_NET_RAW and CAP_IPC_LOCK. + * Supported TSO and checksum for generic UDP and IP tunnels. + * Supported inner checksum and RSS for GRE, VXLAN-GPE, MPLSoGRE + and MPLSoUDP tunnels. + * Accommodate to the new memory hotplug model. + * Supported non virtually contiguous mempools. + * Supported MAC adding along with allmulti and promiscuous modes from VF. + * Supported Mellanox BlueField SoC device. + * Supported PMD defaults for queue number and depth to improve the out + of the box performance. + +* **Updated mlx4 driver.** + + Updated the mlx4 driver including the following changes: + + * Supported to be run by non-root users given reduced set of capabilities + CAP_NET_ADMIN, CAP_NET_RAW and CAP_IPC_LOCK. + * Supported CRC strip toggling. + * Accommodate to the new memory hotplug model. + * Supported non virtually contiguous mempools. + * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.** Updated the sfc_efx driver including the following changes: -- 2.20.1