From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643691B67A for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2018 18:40:05 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 05 Feb 2018 09:40:04 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,465,1511856000"; d="scan'208";a="24993577" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.91]) ([10.237.220.91]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 05 Feb 2018 09:40:02 -0800 To: Adrien Mazarguil , Shahaf Shuler Cc: nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com, yskoh@mellanox.com, john.mcnamara@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org, olgas@mellanox.com References: <222597018bee62a6ff5898e15bf3692aa1ed09ab.1517727898.git.shahafs@mellanox.com> <7eaebf6c5f4a14ba742629c03bfec15b658def7c.1517833737.git.shahafs@mellanox.com> <20180205153126.GL4256@6wind.com> From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 17:40:01 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180205153126.GL4256@6wind.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] doc: update mlx PMD release notes 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: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:40:06 -0000 On 2/5/2018 3:31 PM, Adrien Mazarguil wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 02:31:11PM +0200, Shahaf Shuler wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler > > With one minor nit, rdma-core plug-in compilation hasn't been accepted > yet. Assuming it will: > > Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks. > >> --- >> >> 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 >> >