Re: [dpdk-dev] 17.11 Intel Roadmap

[Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>]

Hi Tim,

I'd like to add this:

Netronome NFP PMD with PF support, including PF mutliport suport. Currently
NFP PMF just supports VFs.

Thanks

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:18 AM, O'Driscoll, Tim <tim.odriscoll@intel.com>
wrote:

> Below are the features that we're planning to submit for the 17.11
> release. We'll submit a patch to update the roadmap page with this info.
>
> It would be good if others are also willing to share their plans so that
> we can build up a complete picture of what's planned for 17.11 and make
> sure there's no duplication.
>
>
> QoS Traffic Management Software Fallback and Sample App: The new QoS
> traffic management API (rte_tm) was added to ethdev in 17.08. A software
> fallback using the existing DPDK QoS scheduling library (librte_sched) will
> be added. A sample application will also be created which demonstrates
> usage of this API.
>
> Extend Power Management Lib to Support Per-Core Turbo Boost: The power
> management library will be enhanced to support the ability to enable
> per-core turbo boost for CPUs that support this capability. An example
> usage of this would be in a pipeline model where enabling turbo boost on a
> distributor core will increase overall system performance without having to
> enable turbo on the worker cores.
>
> Power Management Policy Control: This change will allow policy control to
> be applied to power management actions such as changes to p-states. A guest
> will be able to send policy info to a power management process on the host,
> which will apply that policy when making power management changes.
>
> DES SW PMD: A new SW crypto PMD will be created to support DES. This will
> provide an optimized implementation for AVX512, and an unoptimised
> implementation for AVX2/AVX/SSE.
>
> AES CCM Support in OpenSSL PMD: Support for AES CCM mode will be added to
> the OpenSSL PMD. Further details on AES CCM are available at:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCM_mode.
>
> QAT PMD Performance Enhancements: Improve QAT cryptodev driver performance
> by 1) RX/TX CSR writes coalescing, 2) deferred freeing of RX descriptors,
> and 3) removing atomics and assuming single threaded queue pair operation.
>
> Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO): Support for Generic Receive Offload
> (GRO) was added in 17.08. Similar support for GSO will be added in 17.11.
>
> GRO Heavyweight Mode Sample App: The Generic Receive Offload library added
> in 17.08 operates in two modes: lightweight and heavyweight. Use of the
> lightweight mode is demonstrated with testpmd. A sample application will be
> created to demonstrate usage of the heavyweight mode.
>
> Primary/Secondary Process Support for Virtual Devices: Most virtual
> devices don't currently support the primary/secondary process model.
> Support for this will be added.
>
> Extend Port ID to 2 Bytes: The Port ID will be extended to 2 bytes. See
> the ABI deprecation notice for further details: http://www.dpdk.org/dev/
> patchwork/patch/26852/.
>
> I40E API to Configure RSS Queue Regions: The I40E allows queue regions to
> be defined, so that different traffic classes or different packet
> classification types can be sent to different queues.
>
>