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Platform specific guide for Marvell OCTEON CN9K/CN10K SoC is added. Signed-off-by: Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
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Copyright 2021 The DPDK contributors
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.. include:: <isonum.txt>
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DPDK Release 21.05
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==================
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.. **Read this first.**
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The text in the sections below explains how to update the release notes.
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Use proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation in all sections.
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Variable and config names should be quoted as fixed width text:
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``LIKE_THIS``.
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Build the docs and view the output file to ensure the changes are correct::
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make doc-guides-html
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xdg-open build/doc/html/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.html
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New Features
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------------
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.. This section should contain new features added in this release.
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Refer to the previous release notes for examples.
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Suggested order in release notes items:
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* Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
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* Device abstraction libs and PMDs
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- ethdev (lib, PMDs)
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- cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
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- eventdev (lib, PMDs)
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- etc
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* Other libs
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* Apps, Examples, Tools (if significant)
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This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it.
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=======================================================
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* **Added support for Marvell CN10K SoC drivers.**
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Added Marvell CN10K SoC support. Marvell CN10K SoC are based on Octeon 10
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family of ARM64 processors with ARM Neoverse N2 core with accelerators for
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packet processing, timers, cryptography, etc.
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* Added common/cnxk driver consisting of common API to be used by
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net, crypto and event PMD's.
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* **Enhanced ethdev representor syntax.**
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* Introduced representor type of VF, SF and PF.
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* Supported sub-function and multi-host in representor syntax::
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representor=# [0,2-4] /* Legacy VF compatible. */
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representor=[[c#]pf#]vf# c1pf2vf3 /* VF 3 on PF 2 of controller 1. */
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representor=[[c#]pf#]sf# sf[0,2-1023] /* 1023 SFs. */
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representor=[c#]pf# c2pf[0,1] /* 2 PFs on controller 2. */
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* **Updated Arkville PMD driver.**
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Updated Arkville net driver with new features and improvements, including:
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* Generalized passing meta data between PMD and FPGA, allowing up to 20
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bytes of user specified information in RX and TX paths.
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* Updated dynamic PMD extensions API using standardized names.
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* Added support for new Atomic Rules PCI device IDs ``0x100f, 0x1010, 0x1017,
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0x1018, 0x1019``.
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* **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.**
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* Updated HWRM structures to 1.10.2.15 version.
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* **Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver.**
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* Added support for module EEPROM dumping.
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* Added support for freeing Tx mbuf on demand.
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* Added support for copper port in Kunpeng930.
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* Added support for runtime config to select IO burst function.
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* Added support for outer UDP checksum in Kunpeng930.
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* Added support for query Tx descriptor status.
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* Added support for query Rx descriptor status.
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* **Updated Intel iavf driver.**
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Updated the Intel iavf driver with new features and improvements, including:
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* Added flow filter to support GTPU inner L3/L4 fields matching.
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* **Updated NXP DPAA driver.**
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* Added support for shared ethernet interface.
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* Added support for external buffers in Tx.
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* **Updated NXP DPAA2 driver.**
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* Added support for traffic management.
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* Added support for configurable Tx confirmation.
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* Added support for external buffers in Tx.
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* **Updated Wangxun txgbe driver.**
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* Added support for txgbevf PMD.
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* Support device arguments to handle AN training for backplane NICs.
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* **Enabled vmxnet3 PMD on Windows.**
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* **Updated the AF_XDP driver.**
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* Added support for preferred busy polling.
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* **Updated Mellanox RegEx PMD.**
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* Added support for multi-segments mbuf.
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* **Updated testpmd.**
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* Added a command line option to configure forced speed for Ethernet port.
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``dpdk-testpmd -- --eth-link-speed N``
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* Added command to display Rx queue used descriptor count.
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``show port (port_id) rxq (queue_id) desc used count``
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Removed Items
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-------------
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.. This section should contain removed items in this release. Sample format:
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This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it.
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API Changes
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* eal: The experimental TLS API added in ``rte_thread.h`` has been renamed
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from ``rte_thread_tls_*`` to ``rte_thread_*`` to avoid naming redundancy
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and confusion with the transport layer security term.
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* pci: The value ``PCI_ANY_ID`` is marked as deprecated
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and can be replaced with ``RTE_PCI_ANY_ID``.
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ABI Changes
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* No ABI change that would break compatibility with 20.11.
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* The experimental function ``rte_telemetry_legacy_register`` has been
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removed from the public API and is now an internal-only function. This
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function was already marked as internal in the API documentation for it,
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and was not for use by external applications.
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Known Issues
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------------
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Tested Platforms
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----------------
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.. This section should contain a list of platforms that were tested
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with this release.
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The format is:
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* <vendor> platform with <vendor> <type of devices> combinations
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* List of CPU
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* List of OS
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* List of devices
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* Other relevant details...
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