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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: update release notes for 20.05
@ 2020-05-25 19:11 John McNamara
  2020-05-25 19:11 ` Mcnamara, John
  2020-05-25 21:39 ` Thomas Monjalon
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: John McNamara @ 2020-05-25 19:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev; +Cc: thomas, ktraynor, ciara.power, fiona.trahe, John McNamara

Fix grammar, spelling and formatting of DPDK 20.05 release notes.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
---

v2: * Addressed comments from mailing list.
    * Tried to add a more coherent grouping to the crypto changes.


 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst | 274 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 129 insertions(+), 145 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst
index a61631e..3c6106b 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst
@@ -56,38 +56,38 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =========================================================
 
-* **Added Trace Library and Tracepoints**
+* **Added Trace Library and Tracepoints.**
 
-  A native implementation of ``common trace format(CTF)`` based trace library
-  has been added to provide the ability to add tracepoints in
-  application/library to get runtime trace/debug information for control and
-  fast APIs with minimum impact on fast path performance.
-  Typical trace overhead is ~20 cycles and instrumentation overhead is 1 cycle.
-  Added tracepoints in ``EAL``, ``ethdev``, ``cryptodev``, ``eventdev`` and
-  ``mempool`` libraries for important functions.
+  Added a native implementation of the "common trace format" (CTF) based trace
+  library. This allows the user add tracepoints in an application/library to
+  get runtime trace/debug information for control, and fast APIs with minimum
+  impact on fast path performance. Typical trace overhead is ~20 cycles and
+  instrumentation overhead is 1 cycle.  Added tracepoints in ``EAL``,
+  ``ethdev``, ``cryptodev``, ``eventdev`` and ``mempool`` libraries for
+  important functions.
 
-* **Added APIs for RCU defer queue.**
+* **Added APIs for RCU defer queues.**
 
-  Added APIs to create and delete defer queue. Additional APIs are provided
+  Added APIs to create and delete defer queues. Additional APIs are provided
   to enqueue a deleted resource and reclaim the resource in the future.
-  These APIs help the application use lock-free data structures with
+  These APIs help an application use lock-free data structures with
   less effort.
 
 * **Added new API for rte_ring.**
 
-  * New synchronization modes for rte_ring.
+  * Introduced new synchronization modes for ``rte_ring``.
 
-  Introduced new optional MT synchronization modes for rte_ring:
-  Relaxed Tail Sync (RTS) mode and Head/Tail Sync (HTS) mode.
-  With these mode selected, rte_ring shows significant improvements for
-  average enqueue/dequeue times on overcommitted systems.
+    Introduced new optional MT synchronization modes for ``rte_ring``:
+    Relaxed Tail Sync (RTS) mode and Head/Tail Sync (HTS) mode.
+    With these modes selected, ``rte_ring`` shows significant improvements for
+    average enqueue/dequeue times on overcommitted systems.
 
-  * Added peek style API for rte_ring.
+  * Added peek style API for ``rte_ring``.
 
-  For rings with producer/consumer in RTE_RING_SYNC_ST, RTE_RING_SYNC_MT_HTS
-  mode, provide an ability to split enqueue/dequeue operation into two phases
-  (enqueue/dequeue start; enqueue/dequeue finish). That allows user to inspect
-  objects in the ring without removing them from it (aka MT safe peek).
+    For rings with producer/consumer in ``RTE_RING_SYNC_ST``, ``RTE_RING_SYNC_MT_HTS``
+    mode, provide the ability to split enqueue/dequeue operation into two phases
+    (enqueue/dequeue start and enqueue/dequeue finish). This allows the user to inspect
+    objects in the ring without removing them (aka MT safe peek).
 
 * **Added flow aging support.**
 
@@ -100,14 +100,16 @@ New Features
   * Added new query: ``rte_flow_get_aged_flows`` to get the aged-out flows
     contexts from the port.
 
-* **ethdev: Added a new value to link speed for 200Gbps**
+* **ethdev: Added a new value to link speed for 200Gbps.**
 
-* **Updated Amazon ena driver.**
+  Added a new ethdev value to for link speeds of 200Gbps.
 
-  Updated ena PMD with new features and improvements, including:
+* **Updated the Amazon ena driver.**
+
+  Updated the ena PMD with new features and improvements, including:
 
   * Added support for large LLQ (Low-latency queue) headers.
-  * Added Tx drops as new extended driver statistic.
+  * Added Tx drops as a new extended driver statistic.
   * Added support for accelerated LLQ mode.
   * Handling of the 0 length descriptors on the Rx path.
 
@@ -115,14 +117,14 @@ New Features
 
   Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver with new features and improvements, including:
 
-  * Added support for TSO
-  * Added support for configuring promiscuous and allmulticast mode for VF
+  * Added support for TSO.
+  * Added support for configuring promiscuous and allmulticast mode for VF.
 
 * **Updated Intel i40e driver.**
 
   Updated i40e PMD with new features and improvements, including:
 
-  * Enable MAC address as FDIR input set for ipv4-other, ipv4-udp and ipv4-tcp.
+  * Enabled MAC address as FDIR input set for ipv4-other, ipv4-udp and ipv4-tcp.
   * Added support for RSS using L3/L4 source/destination only.
   * Added support for setting hash function in rte flow.
 
@@ -139,14 +141,14 @@ New Features
   Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including:
 
   * Added support for DCF (Device Config Function) feature.
-  * Added switch filter support for intel DCF.
+  * Added switch filter support for Intel DCF.
 
 * **Updated Marvell OCTEON TX2 ethdev driver.**
 
-  Updated Marvell OCTEON TX2 ethdev driver with traffic manager support with
-  below features.
+  Updated Marvell OCTEON TX2 ethdev driver with traffic manager support,
+  including:
 
-  * Hierarchial Scheduling with DWRR and SP.
+  * Hierarchical Scheduling with DWRR and SP.
   * Single rate - Two color, Two rate - Three color shaping.
 
 * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
@@ -158,14 +160,27 @@ New Features
   * Added support for configuring Hairpin queue data buffer size.
   * Added support for jumbo frame size (9K MTU) in Multi-Packet RQ mode.
   * Removed flow rules caching for memory saving and compliance with ethdev API.
-  * Optimized the memory consumption of flow.
-  * Added support for flow aging based on hardware counter.
-  * Added support for flow pattern with wildcard VLAN item (without VID value).
-  * Updated support for matching on GTP header, added match on GTP flags.
+  * Optimized the memory consumption of flows.
+  * Added support for flow aging based on hardware counters.
+  * Added support for flow patterns with wildcard VLAN items (without VID value).
+  * Updated support for matching on GTP headers, added match on GTP flags.
+
+* **Added a new driver for Intel Foxville I225 devices.**
+
+  Added the new ``igc`` net driver for Intel Foxville I225 devices. See the
+  :doc:`../nics/igc` NIC guide for more details on this new driver.
+
+* **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.**
+
+  Updated the Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Added support for host based flow table management.
+  * Added flow counters to extended stats.
+  * Added PCI function stats to extended stats.
 
 * **Added Chacha20-Poly1305 algorithm to Cryptodev API.**
 
-  Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm can now be supported in Cryptodev.
+  Added support for Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm in Cryptodev.
 
 * **Updated the AESNI MB crypto PMD.**
 
@@ -175,7 +190,7 @@ New Features
 
 * **Updated the AESNI GCM crypto PMD.**
 
-  * Added support for intel-ipsec-mb version 0.54.
+  Added support for intel-ipsec-mb version 0.54.
 
 * **Updated the ZUC crypto PMD.**
 
@@ -186,60 +201,51 @@ New Features
 
 * **Updated the SNOW3G crypto PMD.**
 
-  * Added support for intel-ipsec-mb version 0.54.
+  Added support for intel-ipsec-mb version 0.54.
 
 * **Updated the KASUMI crypto PMD.**
 
-  * Added support for intel-ipsec-mb version 0.54.
-
-* **Added a new driver for Intel Foxville I225 devices.**
-
-  Added the new ``igc`` net driver for Intel Foxville I225 devices. See the
-  :doc:`../nics/igc` NIC guide for more details on this new driver.
-
-* **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.**
-
-  Updated Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including:
+  Added support for intel-ipsec-mb version 0.54.
 
-  * Added support for host based flow table management
-  * Added flow counters to extended stats
-  * Added PCI function stats to extended stats
+* **Updated the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) Crypto PMD.**
 
-* **Added handling of mixed crypto algorithms in QAT PMD for GEN2.**
+  * Added handling of mixed crypto algorithms in QAT PMD for GEN2.
 
-  Enabled handling of mixed algorithms in encrypted digest hash-cipher
-  (generation) and cipher-hash (verification) requests in QAT PMD
-  when running on GEN2 QAT hardware with particular firmware versions
-  (GEN3 support was added in DPDK 20.02).
+    Enabled handling of mixed algorithms in encrypted digest hash-cipher
+    (generation) and cipher-hash (verification) requests in QAT PMD when
+    running on GEN2 QAT hardware with particular firmware versions (GEN3
+    support was added in DPDK 20.02).
 
-* **Added plain SHA-1,224,256,384,512 support to QAT PMD.**
+  * Added plain SHA-1, 224, 256, 384, 512 support to QAT PMD.
 
-  Added support for plain SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 hashes
-  to QAT PMD.
+    Added support for plain SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512
+    hashes to QAT PMD.
 
-* **Added AES-GCM/GMAC J0 support to QAT PMD.**
+  * Added AES-GCM/GMAC J0 support to QAT PMD.
 
-  Added support for AES-GCM/GMAC J0 to Intel QuickAssist Technology PMD. User can
-  use this feature by passing zero length IV in appropriate xform. For more
-  info please refer to rte_crypto_sym.h J0 comments.
+    Added support for AES-GCM/GMAC J0 to Intel QuickAssist Technology PMD. The
+    user can use this feature by passing a zero length IV in the appropriate
+    xform. For more information refer to the doxygen comments in
+    ``rte_crypto_sym.h`` for ``J0``.
 
-* **Updated the QAT PMD for AES-256 DOCSIS.**
+  * Updated the QAT PMD for AES-256 DOCSIS.
 
-  Added AES-256 DOCSIS algorithm support to QAT PMD.
+    Added AES-256 DOCSIS algorithm support to the QAT PMD.
 
-* **Added QAT intermediate buffer too small handling in QAT compression PMD.**
+* **Updated the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) Compression PMD.**
 
-  Added a special way of buffer handling when internal QAT intermediate buffer
-  is too small for Huffman dynamic compression operation. Instead of falling
+  Added special buffer handling when the internal QAT intermediate buffer is
+  too small for the Huffman dynamic compression operation. Instead of falling
   back to fixed compression, the operation is now split into multiple smaller
-  dynamic compression requests (possible to execute on QAT) and their results
-  are then combined and copied into the output buffer. This is not possible if
-  any checksum calculation was requested - in such case the code falls back to
-  fixed compression as before.
+  dynamic compression requests (which are possible to execute on QAT) and
+  their results are then combined and copied into the output buffer. This is
+  not possible if any checksum calculation was requested - in such cases the
+  code falls back to fixed compression as before.
 
 * **Updated the turbo_sw bbdev PMD.**
 
-  Supported large size code blocks which does not fit in one mbuf segment.
+  Added support for large size code blocks which do not fit in one mbuf
+  segment.
 
 * **Added Intel FPGA_5GNR_FEC bbdev PMD.**
 
@@ -255,31 +261,32 @@ New Features
     accurate load balancing.
   * Improved behavior on high-core count systems.
   * Reduced latency in low-load situations.
-  * Extended DSW xstats with migration- and load-related statistics.
+  * Extended DSW xstats with migration and load-related statistics.
 
-* **Updated ipsec-secgw sample application with following features.**
+* **Updated ipsec-secgw sample application.**
 
-  * Updated ipsec-secgw application to add event based packet processing.
-    The worker thread(s) would receive events and submit them back to the
-    event device after the processing. This way, multicore scaling and HW
-    assisted scheduling is achieved by making use of the event device
-    capabilities. The event mode currently supports only inline IPsec
-    protocol offload.
+  Updated the ``ipsec-secgw`` sample application with the following features:
 
-  * Updated ipsec-secgw application to support key sizes for AES-192-CBC,
-    AES-192-GCM, AES-256-GCM algorithms.
+  * Updated the application to add event based packet processing. The worker
+    thread(s) would receive events and submit them back to the event device
+    after the processing. This way, multicore scaling and HW assisted
+    scheduling is achieved by making use of the event device capabilities. The
+    event mode currently only supports inline IPsec protocol offload.
 
-  * Added IPsec inbound load-distribution support for ipsec-secgw application
-    using NIC load distribution feature(Flow Director).
+  * Updated the application to support key sizes for AES-192-CBC, AES-192-GCM,
+    AES-256-GCM algorithms.
+
+  * Added IPsec inbound load-distribution support for the application using
+    NIC load distribution feature (Flow Director).
 
 * **Updated Telemetry Library.**
 
-  The updated Telemetry library has many improvements on the original version
-  to make it more accessible and scalable:
+  The updated Telemetry library has been significantly improved in relation to
+  the original version to make it more accessible and scalable:
 
-  * It enables DPDK libraries and applications provide their own specific
-    telemetry information, rather than being limited to what could be reported
-    through the metrics library.
+  * It now enables DPDK libraries and applications to provide their own
+    specific telemetry information, rather than being limited to what could be
+    reported through the metrics library.
 
   * It is no longer dependent on the external Jansson library, which allows
     Telemetry be enabled by default.
@@ -287,61 +294,53 @@ New Features
   * The socket handling has been simplified making it easier for clients to
     connect and retrieve information.
 
-* **Added rte_graph library.**
+* **Added the rte_graph library.**
+
+  The Graph architecture abstracts the data processing functions as ``nodes``
+  and ``links`` them together to create a complex ``graph`` to enable
+  reusable/modular data processing functions. The graph library provides APIs
+  to enable graph framework operations such as create, lookup, dump and
+  destroy on graph and node operations such as clone, edge update, and edge
+  shrink, etc. The API also allows the creation of a stats cluster to monitor
+  per graph and per node statistics.
 
-  Graph architecture abstracts the data processing functions as a ``node`` and
-  ``links`` them together to create a complex ``graph`` to enable reusable/modular
-  data processing functions. The graph library provides API to enable graph
-  framework operations such as create, lookup, dump and destroy on graph and node
-  operations such as clone, edge update, and edge shrink, etc.
-  The API also allows to create the stats cluster to monitor per graph and per node stats.
+* **Added the rte_node library.**
 
-* **Added rte_node library which consists of a set of packet processing nodes.**
+  Added the ``rte_node`` library that consists of nodes used by the
+  ``rte_graph`` library. Each node performs a specific packet processing
+  function based on the application configuration.
 
-  The rte_node library that consists of nodes used by rte_graph library. Each
-  node performs a specific packet processing function based on application
-  configuration. The following nodes are added:
+  The following nodes are added:
 
-  * Null node: Skeleton node that defines the general structure of a node.
-  * Ethernet device node: Consists of ethernet Rx/Tx nodes as well as ethernet
+  * Null node: A skeleton node that defines the general structure of a node.
+  * Ethernet device node: Consists of Ethernet Rx/Tx nodes as well as Ethernet
     control APIs.
-  * IPv4 lookup node: Consists of ipv4 extract and lpm lookup node. Routes can
-    be configured by the application through ``rte_node_ip4_route_add`` function.
-  * IPv4 rewrite node: Consists of ipv4 and ethernet header rewrite functionality
-    that can be configured through ``rte_node_ip4_rewrite_add`` function.
+  * IPv4 lookup node: Consists of IPv4 extract and LPM lookup node. Routes can
+    be configured by the application through the ``rte_node_ip4_route_add``
+    function.
+  * IPv4 rewrite node: Consists of IPv4 and Ethernet header rewrite
+    functionality that can be configured through the
+    ``rte_node_ip4_rewrite_add`` function.
   * Packet drop node: Frees the packets received to their respective mempool.
 
 * **Added new l3fwd-graph sample application.**
 
-  Added an example application ``l3fwd-graph``. It demonstrates the usage of graph
-  library and node library for packet processing. In addition to the library usage
-  demonstration, this application can use for performance comparison with existing
-  ``l3fwd`` (The static code without any nodes) with the modular ``l3fwd-graph``
-  approach.
+  Added an example application ``l3fwd-graph``. This demonstrates the usage of
+  the graph library and node library for packet processing. In addition to the
+  library usage demonstration, this application can be used for performance
+  comparison of the existing ``l3fwd`` (static code without any nodes) with
+  the modular ``l3fwd-graph`` approach.
 
-* **Updated testpmd application.**
+* **Updated the testpmd application.**
 
-  * Added a new cmdline option ``--rx-mq-mode`` which can be used to test PMD's
-    behaviour on handling Rx mq mode.
+  Added a new cmdline option ``--rx-mq-mode`` which can be used to test PMD's
+  behaviour on handling Rx mq mode.
 
 * **Added support for GCC 10.**
 
   Added support for building with GCC 10.1.
 
 
-Removed Items
--------------
-
-.. This section should contain removed items in this release. Sample format:
-
-   * Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the removed item
-     in the past tense.
-
-   This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it.
-   Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
-   =========================================================
-
-
 API Changes
 -----------
 
@@ -358,7 +357,7 @@ API Changes
    =========================================================
 
 * mempool: The API of ``rte_mempool_populate_iova()`` and
-  ``rte_mempool_populate_virt()`` changed to return 0 instead of -EINVAL
+  ``rte_mempool_populate_virt()`` changed to return 0 instead of ``-EINVAL``
   when there is not enough room to store one object.
 
 
@@ -380,21 +379,6 @@ ABI Changes
 * No ABI change that would break compatibility with DPDK 20.02 and 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
 ----------------
 
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