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
--
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