From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mellanox.co.il (mail-il-dmz.mellanox.com [193.47.165.129]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B95374C8E for ; Thu, 17 May 2018 09:48:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from Internal Mail-Server by MTLPINE1 (envelope-from shahafs@mellanox.com) with ESMTPS (AES256-SHA encrypted); 17 May 2018 10:50:38 +0300 Received: from unicorn01.mtl.labs.mlnx. (unicorn01.mtl.labs.mlnx [10.7.12.62]) by labmailer.mlnx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id w4H7mlmh011679; Thu, 17 May 2018 10:48:47 +0300 From: Shahaf Shuler To: john.mcnamara@intel.com Cc: dev@dpdk.org, nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com, adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com, yskoh@mellanox.com Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 10:48:34 +0300 Message-Id: <20180517074834.76805-1-shahafs@mellanox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.12.0 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update release notes for mlx drivers X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 07:48:51 -0000 Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler --- 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