From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shahaf Shuler Subject: [PATCH] doc: update release notes for mlx5 driver Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:23:29 +0300 Message-ID: <20171016052329.60921-1-shahafs@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: ferruh.yigit@intel.com, thomas@monjalon.net Return-path: Received: from EUR01-VE1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-ve1eur01on0073.outbound.protection.outlook.com [104.47.1.73]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E251B338 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:23:37 +0200 (CEST) List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst index 8db35f5e4..036b0af25 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst @@ -165,6 +165,19 @@ New Features checksums, and doesn't update checksums for output packets. Additionally, the GSO library doesn't process IP fragmented packets. +* **Updated mlx5 driver.** + + Updated the mlx5 driver including the following changes: + + * Enabled PMD to run on top of upstream linux kernel and rdma-core libs. + By that removed the dependency on specific Mellanox OFED libraries. + * Improved PMD latency performance. + * Improved PMD memory footprint. + * Supported vectorized Rx/Tx burst for ARMv8. + * Supported secondary process. + * Supported flow counters. + * Supported Rx hardware timestamp offload. + * Supported device removal event. Resolved Issues --------------- -- 2.12.0