From: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: thomas@monjalon.net, John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] doc: update release notes for 20.02
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 10:59:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1582455568-77117-1-git-send-email-john.mcnamara@intel.com> (raw)
Fix grammar, spelling and formatting of DPDK 20.02 release notes.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst | 70 +++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst
index dfebc46..8a493e4 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ New Features
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:
@@ -91,10 +91,10 @@ New Features
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.**
@@ -105,7 +105,9 @@ New Features
* **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.
@@ -122,7 +124,7 @@ New Features
* 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.
@@ -135,7 +137,7 @@ New Features
* 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.
@@ -155,6 +157,8 @@ New Features
* **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
@@ -162,8 +166,8 @@ New Features
* **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.
@@ -174,7 +178,7 @@ New Features
(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.**
@@ -185,34 +189,35 @@ New Features
* **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.**
@@ -222,7 +227,7 @@ New Features
* **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.**
@@ -232,8 +237,8 @@ New Features
* **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
@@ -250,7 +255,7 @@ 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.
@@ -259,8 +264,8 @@ Removed Items
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.
@@ -279,6 +284,8 @@ API Changes
Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
=========================================================
+* No changes in this release.
+
ABI Changes
-----------
@@ -298,21 +305,6 @@ ABI Changes
* No change, kept ABI v20. DPDK 20.02 is compatible with DPDK 19.11.
-Known Issues
-------------
-
-.. This section should contain new known issues in this release. Sample format:
-
- * **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.
-
- This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it.
- Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
- =========================================================
-
-
Tested Platforms
----------------
--
2.7.5
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