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From: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
To: john.mcnamara@intel.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com,
	adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com, yskoh@mellanox.com
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update release notes for mlx drivers
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 10:48:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180517074834.76805-1-shahafs@mellanox.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
index 74ca3cf280..27241f3ea4 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
@@ -59,6 +59,33 @@ New Features
 
   Support to update RSS hash and key has been added to CXGBE PMD.
 
+* **Updated mlx5 driver.**
+
+  Updated the mlx5 driver including the following changes:
+
+  * Introduced Multi-packet Rx. With it, achieved 100Gb/sec with 64B frames.
+  * Supported to be run by non-root users given reduced set of capabilities
+    CAP_NET_ADMIN, CAP_NET_RAW and CAP_IPC_LOCK.
+  * Supported TSO and checksum for generic UDP and IP tunnels.
+  * Supported inner checksum and RSS for GRE, VXLAN-GPE, MPLSoGRE
+    and MPLSoUDP tunnels.
+  * Accommodate to the new memory hotplug model.
+  * Supported non virtually contiguous mempools.
+  * Supported MAC adding along with allmulti and promiscuous modes from VF.
+  * Supported Mellanox BlueField SoC device.
+  * Supported PMD defaults for queue number and depth to improve the out
+    of the box performance.
+
+* **Updated mlx4 driver.**
+
+  Updated the mlx4 driver including the following changes:
+
+  * Supported to be run by non-root users given reduced set of capabilities
+    CAP_NET_ADMIN, CAP_NET_RAW and CAP_IPC_LOCK.
+  * Supported CRC strip toggling.
+  * Accommodate to the new memory hotplug model.
+  * Supported non virtually contiguous mempools.
+
 * **Added CXGBE VF PMD.**
 
   CXGBE VF Poll Mode Driver has been added to run DPDK over Chelsio
-- 
2.12.0

             reply	other threads:[~2018-05-17  7:48 UTC|newest]

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2018-05-17  7:48 Shahaf Shuler [this message]
2018-05-22 21:27 ` Ferruh Yigit

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