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[dpdk-dev] doc: update release notes for mlx drivers

Message ID 20180517074834.76805-1-shahafs@mellanox.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Ferruh Yigit
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Shahaf Shuler May 17, 2018, 7:48 a.m. UTC 
  Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
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 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Ferruh Yigit May 22, 2018, 9:27 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 5/17/2018 8:48 AM, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
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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