From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shahaf Shuler Subject: [PATCH v2] doc: update release notes for mlx5 driver Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:32:00 +0300 Message-ID: <893f3a594ca1603abfcabb44da952477e3621dc5.1508160538.git.shahafs@mellanox.com> References: <20171016052329.60921-1-shahafs@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: thomas@monjalon.net, ferruh.yigit@intel.com Return-path: Received: from EUR02-VE1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-eopbgr20052.outbound.protection.outlook.com [40.107.2.52]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E46461B6D6 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:32:08 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20171016052329.60921-1-shahafs@mellanox.com> 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 --- on v2: - Moved mlx5 notes next to net PMDs. --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst index 8db35f5e4..24018fdd5 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst @@ -59,6 +59,20 @@ New Features "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this new driver. +* **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. + * **Added SoftNIC PMD.** Added new SoftNIC PMD. This virtual device offers applications a software -- 2.12.0