From: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
To: adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com, nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com,
yskoh@mellanox.com, john.mcnamara@intel.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, olgas@mellanox.com
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] doc: update mlx PMD release notes
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 09:06:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <222597018bee62a6ff5898e15bf3692aa1ed09ab.1517727898.git.shahafs@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180201114527.128941-1-shahafs@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
---
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-04 7:07 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 ` Shahaf Shuler [this message]
2018-02-05 12:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] doc: update mlx PMD release notes Shahaf Shuler
2018-02-05 13:12 ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2018-02-05 15:31 ` Adrien Mazarguil
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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