diff mbox

[dpdk-dev,v2,1/2] doc: update mlx PMD release notes

Message ID 222597018bee62a6ff5898e15bf3692aa1ed09ab.1517727898.git.shahafs@mellanox.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Headers

Checks

Context Check Description
ci/checkpatch success coding style OK
ci/Intel-compilation success Compilation OK

Commit Message

Shahaf Shuler Feb. 4, 2018, 7:06 a.m. UTC 
  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 mbox

Patch

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