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From: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
To: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Cc: nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com, yskoh@mellanox.com,
	john.mcnamara@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org, olgas@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] doc: update mlx PMD release notes
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 16:31:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180205153126.GL4256@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7eaebf6c5f4a14ba742629c03bfec15b658def7c.1517833737.git.shahafs@mellanox.com>

On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 02:31:11PM +0200, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>

With one minor nit, rdma-core plug-in compilation hasn't been accepted
yet. Assuming it will:

Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>

> ---
> 
> On v3:
>  - No change.
> 
> On v2:
>  - No change.
> 
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
> index 689080bed..714a24388 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
> @@ -50,6 +50,33 @@ New Features
>    exiting. Not calling this function could result in leaking hugepages, leading
>    to failure during initialization of secondary processes.
>  
> +* **Updated mlx5 driver.**
> +
> +  Updated the mlx5 driver including the following changes:
> +
> +  * Enabled compilation as a plugin, thus removed the mandatory dependency with rdma-core.
> +    With the special compilation, the rdma-core libraries will be loaded only in case
> +    Mellanox device is being used. For binaries creation the PMD can be enabled, still not
> +    requiring from every end user to install rdma-core.
> +  * Improved multi-segment packet performance.
> +  * Changed driver name to use the PCI address to be compatible with OVS-DPDK APIs.
> +  * Extended statistics for physical port packet/byte counters.
> +  * Supported IPv4 time-to-live filter.
> +  * Converted to the new offloads API.
> +  * Supported device removal check operation.
> +
> +* **Updated mlx4 driver.**
> +
> +  Updated the mlx4 driver including the following changes:
> +
> +  * Enabled compilation as a plugin, thus removed the mandatory dependency with rdma-core.
> +    With the special compilation, the rdma-core libraries will be loaded only in case
> +    Mellanox device is being used. For binaries creation the PMD can be enabled, still not
> +    requiring from every end user to install rdma-core.
> +  * Improved data path performance.
> +  * Converted to the new offloads API.
> +  * Supported device removal check operation.
> +
>  * **Added the ixgbe ethernet driver to support RSS with flow API.**
>  
>    Rte_flow actually defined to include RSS, but till now, RSS is out of
> -- 
> 2.12.0
> 

-- 
Adrien Mazarguil
6WIND

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-05 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-01 11:45 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH " Shahaf Shuler
2018-02-01 11:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] doc: update mlx5 required OFED version Shahaf Shuler
2018-02-04  7:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] doc: update mlx PMD release notes Shahaf Shuler
2018-02-05 12:31   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Shahaf Shuler
2018-02-05 13:12     ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2018-02-05 15:31     ` Adrien Mazarguil [this message]
2018-02-05 17:40       ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-02-05 12:31   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] doc: update mlx5 required OFED version Shahaf Shuler
2018-02-05 13:12     ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2018-02-05 15:31     ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-04  7:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] doc: update mlx PMD " Shahaf Shuler
2018-02-05  7:44   ` Nélio Laranjeiro

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