From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by dpdk.space (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6ACA0096 for ; Thu, 9 May 2019 23:11:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E315C49DF; Thu, 9 May 2019 23:11:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mellanox.co.il (mail-il-dmz.mellanox.com [193.47.165.129]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2DE244C3 for ; Thu, 9 May 2019 23:11:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from Internal Mail-Server by MTLPINE2 (envelope-from yskoh@mellanox.com) with ESMTPS (AES256-SHA encrypted); 10 May 2019 00:11:27 +0300 Received: from scfae-sc-2.mti.labs.mlnx (scfae-sc-2.mti.labs.mlnx [10.101.0.96]) by labmailer.mlnx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id x49LBPNi011426; Fri, 10 May 2019 00:11:26 +0300 From: Yongseok Koh To: thomas@monjalon.net Cc: dev@dpdk.org, shahafs@mellanox.com Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 14:11:23 -0700 Message-Id: <20190509211124.38610-1-yskoh@mellanox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.21.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update release notes for Mellanox drivers X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID: <20190509211123.PVMxHAilJt15GRi2_vm2Py4sd1YqKYpzT13TgH1wyuQ@z> mlx4/mlx5 release note for v19.05 Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst index 5044ac7df1..392fe80283 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst @@ -128,11 +128,31 @@ New Features * Added Tx prepare to do Tx offloads checks. * Added support for VXLAN and GENEVE encapsulated TSO. -* **Updated Mellanox drivers.** +* **Updated Mellanox mlx4 drivers.** - New features and improvements were done in mlx4 and mlx5 PMDs: + New features and improvements were done: * Added firmware version reading. + * Added support for secondary process. + * Added support of per-process device registers, reserving identical VA space + is not needed anymore. + * Added support for multicast address list interface + +* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 drivers.** + + New features and improvements were done: + + * Added firmware version reading. + * Added support of new naming scheme of representor. + * Added support for new PCI device DMA map/unmap API. + * Added support for multiport InfiniBand device. + * Added control of excessive memory pinning by kernel. + * Replace IPC socket with ``rte_mp`` API. + * Added support of DMA memory registration by secondary process. + * Added Direct Rule support in Direct Verbs flow driver. + * Added support of per-process device registers, reserving identical VA space + is not needed anymore. + * Added E-Switch support in Direct Verbs flow driver. * **Renamed avf to iavf.** -- 2.21.0