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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
Copyright 2016 The DPDK contributors
DPDK Release 16.07
==================
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New Features
------------
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* **Removed the mempool cache memory if caching is not being used.**
The size of the mempool structure is reduced if the per-lcore cache is disabled.
* **Added mempool external cache for non-EAL thread.**
Added new functions to create, free or flush a user-owned mempool
cache for non-EAL threads. Previously the caching was always disabled
on these threads.
* **Changed the memory allocation scheme in the mempool library.**
* Added the ability to allocate a large mempool in fragmented virtual memory.
* Added new APIs to populate a mempool with memory.
* Added an API to free a mempool.
* Modified the API of the ``rte_mempool_obj_iter()`` function.
* Dropped the specific Xen Dom0 code.
* Dropped the specific anonymous mempool code in testpmd.
* **Added a new driver for Broadcom NetXtreme-C devices.**
Added the new bnxt driver for Broadcom NetXtreme-C devices. See the
"Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this
new driver.
* **Added a new driver for ThunderX nicvf devices.**
Added the new thunderx net driver for ThunderX nicvf devices. See the
"Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this new
driver.
* **Added mailbox interrupt support for ixgbe and igb VFs.**
When the physical NIC link comes up or down, the PF driver will send a
mailbox message to notify each VF. To handle this link up/down event,
support have been added for a mailbox interrupt to receive the message and
allow the application to register a callback for it.
* **Updated the ixgbe base driver.**
The ixgbe base driver was updated with changes including the
following:
* Added sgmii link for X550.
* Added MAC link setup for X550a SFP and SFP+.
* Added KR support for X550em_a.
* Added new PHY definitions for M88E1500.
* Added support for the VLVF to be bypassed when adding/removing a VFTA entry.
* Added X550a flow control auto negotiation support.
* **Updated the i40e base driver.**
Updated the i40e base driver including support for new devices IDs.
* **Updated the enic driver.**
The enic driver was updated with changes including the following:
* Optimized the Tx function.
* Added Scattered Rx capability.
* Improved packet type identification.
* Added MTU update in non Scattered Rx mode and enabled MTU of up to 9208
with UCS Software release 2.2 on 1300 series VICs.
* **Updated the mlx5 driver.**
The mlx5 driver was updated with changes including the following:
* Data path was refactored to bypass Verbs to improve RX and TX performance.
* Removed compilation parameters for inline send, ``MLX5_MAX_INLINE``, and
added command line parameter instead, ``txq_inline``.
* Improved TX scatter gather support:
Removed compilation parameter ``MLX5_PMD_SGE_WR_N``.
Scatter-gather elements is set to the maximum value the NIC supports.
Removed linearization logic, this decreases the memory consumption of the PMD.
* Improved jumbo frames support, by dynamically setting RX scatter gather elements
according to the MTU and mbuf size,
no need for compilation parameter ``MLX5_PMD_SGE_WR_N``
* **Added support for virtio on IBM POWER8.**
The ioports are mapped in memory when using Linux UIO.
* **Added support for Virtio in containers.**
Add a new virtual device, named virtio_user, to support virtio for containers.
Known limitations:
* Control queue and multi-queue are not supported yet.
* Doesn't work with ``--huge-unlink``.
* Doesn't work with ``--no-huge``.
* Doesn't work when there are more than ``VHOST_MEMORY_MAX_NREGIONS(8)`` hugepages.
* Root privilege is required for sorting hugepages by physical address.
* Can only be used with the vhost user backend.
* **Added vhost-user client mode.**
DPDK vhost-user now supports client mode as well as server mode. Client mode
is enabled when the ``RTE_VHOST_USER_CLIENT`` flag is set while calling
``rte_vhost_driver_register``.
When DPDK vhost-user restarts from an normal or abnormal exit (such as a
crash), the client mode allows DPDK to establish the connection again. Note
that QEMU version v2.7 or above is required for this feature.
DPDK vhost-user will also try to reconnect by default when:
* The first connect fails (for example when QEMU is not started yet).
* The connection is broken (for example when QEMU restarts).
It can be turned off by setting the ``RTE_VHOST_USER_NO_RECONNECT`` flag.
* **Added NSH packet recognition in i40e.**
* **Added AES-CTR support to AESNI MB PMD.**
Now AESNI MB PMD supports 128/192/256-bit counter mode AES encryption and
decryption.
* **Added AES counter mode support for Intel QuickAssist devices.**
Enabled support for the AES CTR algorithm for Intel QuickAssist devices.
Provided support for algorithm-chaining operations.
* **Added KASUMI SW PMD.**
A new Crypto PMD has been added, which provides KASUMI F8 (UEA1) ciphering
and KASUMI F9 (UIA1) hashing.
* **Added multi-writer support for RTE Hash with Intel TSX.**
The following features/modifications have been added to rte_hash library:
* Enabled application developers to use an extra flag for ``rte_hash``
creation to specify default behavior (multi-thread safe/unsafe) with the
``rte_hash_add_key`` function.
* Changed the Cuckoo Hash Search algorithm to breadth first search for
multi-writer routines and split Cuckoo Hash Search and Move operations in
order to reduce transactional code region and improve TSX performance.
* Added a hash multi-writer test case to the test app.
* **Improved IP Pipeline Application.**
The following features have been added to the ip_pipeline application:
* Configure the MAC address in the routing pipeline and automatic route
updates with change in link state.
* Enable RSS per network interface through the configuration file.
* Streamline the CLI code.
* **Added keepalive enhancements.**
Added support for reporting of core states other than "dead" to
monitoring applications, enabling the support of broader liveness
reporting to external processes.
* **Added packet capture framework.**
* A new library ``librte_pdump`` is added to provide a packet capture API.
* A new ``app/pdump`` tool is added to demonstrate capture packets in DPDK.
* **Added floating VEB support for i40e PF driver.**
A "floating VEB" is a special Virtual Ethernet Bridge (VEB) which does not
have an upload port, but instead is used for switching traffic between
virtual functions (VFs) on a port.
For information on this feature, please see the "I40E Poll Mode Driver"
section of the "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document.
* **Added support for live migration of a VM with SRIOV VF.**
Live migration of a VM with Virtio and VF PMD's using the bonding PMD.
Resolved Issues
---------------
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EAL
~~~
* **igb_uio: Fixed possible mmap failure for Linux >= 4.5.**
The mmaping of the iomem range of the PCI device fails for kernels that
enabled the ``CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM`` option. The error seen by the
user is as similar to the following::
EAL: pci_map_resource():
cannot mmap(39, 0x7f1c51800000, 0x100000, 0x0):
Invalid argument (0xffffffffffffffff)
The ``CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM`` kernel option was introduced in Linux v4.5.
The issues was resolve by updating ``igb_uio`` to stop reserving PCI memory
resources. From the kernel point of view the iomem region looks like idle
and mmap works again. This matches the ``uio_pci_generic`` usage.
Drivers
~~~~~~~
* **i40e: Fixed vlan stripping from inner header.**
Previously, for tunnel packets, such as VXLAN/NVGRE, the vlan
tags of the inner header will be stripped without putting vlan
info to descriptor.
Now this issue is fixed by disabling vlan stripping from inner header.
* **i40e: Fixed the type issue of a single VLAN type.**
Currently, if a single VLAN header is added in a packet, it's treated
as inner VLAN. But generally, a single VLAN header is treated as the
outer VLAN header.
This issue is fixed by changing corresponding register for single VLAN.
* **enic: Fixed several issues when stopping then restarting ports and queues.**
Fixed several crashes related to stopping then restarting ports and queues.
Fixed possible crash when re-configuring the number of Rx queue descriptors.
* **enic: Fixed Rx data mis-alignment if mbuf data offset modified.**
Fixed possible Rx corruption when mbufs were returned to a pool with data
offset other than RTE_PKTMBUF_HEADROOM.
* **enic: Fixed Tx IP/UDP/TCP checksum offload and VLAN insertion.**
* **enic: Fixed Rx error and missed counters.**
Libraries
~~~~~~~~~
* **mbuf: Fixed refcnt update when detaching.**
Fix the ``rte_pktmbuf_detach()`` function to decrement the direct mbuf's
reference counter. The previous behavior was not to affect the reference
counter. This lead to a memory leak of the direct mbuf.
Examples
~~~~~~~~
Other
~~~~~
Known Issues
------------
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* **Add title in present tense with full stop.**
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tense. Add information on any known workarounds.
API Changes
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.. This section should contain API changes. Sample format:
* Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the API change. Use fixed width
quotes for ``rte_function_names`` or ``rte_struct_names``. Use the past tense.
* The following counters are removed from the ``rte_eth_stats`` structure:
* ``ibadcrc``
* ``ibadlen``
* ``imcasts``
* ``fdirmatch``
* ``fdirmiss``
* ``tx_pause_xon``
* ``rx_pause_xon``
* ``tx_pause_xoff``
* ``rx_pause_xoff``
* The extended statistics are fetched by ids with ``rte_eth_xstats_get``
after a lookup by name ``rte_eth_xstats_get_names``.
* The function ``rte_eth_dev_info_get`` fill the new fields ``nb_rx_queues``
and ``nb_tx_queues`` in the structure ``rte_eth_dev_info``.
* The vhost function ``rte_vring_available_entries`` is renamed to
``rte_vhost_avail_entries``.
* All existing vhost APIs and callbacks with ``virtio_net`` struct pointer
as the parameter have been changed due to the ABI refactoring described
below. It is replaced by ``int vid``.
* The function ``rte_vhost_enqueue_burst`` no longer supports concurrent enqueuing
packets to the same queue.
* The function ``rte_eth_dev_set_mtu`` adds a new return value ``-EBUSY``, which
indicates the operation is forbidden because the port is running.
* The script ``dpdk_nic_bind.py`` is renamed to ``dpdk-devbind.py``.
And the script ``setup.sh`` is renamed to ``dpdk-setup.sh``.
ABI Changes
-----------
.. * Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the ABI change that was announced in
the previous releases and made in this release. Use fixed width quotes for
``rte_function_names`` or ``rte_struct_names``. Use the past tense.
* The ``rte_port_source_params`` structure has new fields to support PCAP files.
It was already in release 16.04 with ``RTE_NEXT_ABI`` flag.
* The ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure has new fields ``nb_rx_queues`` and ``nb_tx_queues``
to support the number of queues configured by software.
* A Vhost ABI refactoring has been made: the ``virtio_net`` structure is no
longer exported directly to the application. Instead, a handle, ``vid``, has
been used to represent this structure internally.
Shared Library Versions
-----------------------
.. Update any library version updated in this release and prepend with a ``+`` sign.
The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
.. code-block:: diff
+ libethdev.so.4
librte_acl.so.2
librte_cfgfile.so.2
librte_cmdline.so.2
librte_cryptodev.so.1
librte_distributor.so.1
librte_eal.so.2
librte_hash.so.2
librte_ip_frag.so.1
librte_ivshmem.so.1
librte_jobstats.so.1
librte_kni.so.2
librte_kvargs.so.1
librte_lpm.so.2
librte_mbuf.so.2
+ librte_mempool.so.2
librte_meter.so.1
librte_pdump.so.1
librte_pipeline.so.3
librte_pmd_bond.so.1
librte_pmd_ring.so.2
+ librte_port.so.3
librte_power.so.1
librte_reorder.so.1
librte_ring.so.1
librte_sched.so.1
librte_table.so.2
librte_timer.so.1
+ librte_vhost.so.3
Tested Platforms
----------------
.. This section should contain a list of platforms that were tested with this
release.
The format is:
#. Platform name.
- Platform details.
- Platform details.
#. SuperMicro 1U
- BIOS: 1.0c
- Processor: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2758 @ 2.40GHz
#. SuperMicro 1U
- BIOS: 1.0a
- Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1540 @ 2.00GHz
- Onboard NIC: Intel(R) X552/X557-AT (2x10G)
- Firmware-version: 0x800001cf
- Device ID (PF/VF): 8086:15ad /8086:15a8
- kernel driver version: 4.2.5 (ixgbe)
#. SuperMicro 2U
- BIOS: 1.0a
- Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-4667 v3 @ 2.00GHz
#. Intel(R) Server board S2600GZ
- BIOS: SE5C600.86B.02.02.0002.122320131210
- Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
#. Intel(R) Server board W2600CR
- BIOS: SE5C600.86B.02.01.0002.082220131453
- Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
#. Intel(R) Server board S2600CWT
- BIOS: SE5C610.86B.01.01.0009.060120151350
- Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz
#. Intel(R) Server board S2600WTT
- BIOS: SE5C610.86B.01.01.0005.101720141054
- Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz
#. Intel(R) Server board S2600WTT
- BIOS: SE5C610.86B.11.01.0044.090120151156
- Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v4 @ 2.10GHz
Tested NICs
-----------
.. This section should contain a list of NICs that were tested with this release.
The format is:
#. NIC name.
- NIC details.
- NIC details.
#. Intel(R) Ethernet Controller X540-AT2
- Firmware version: 0x80000389
- Device id (pf): 8086:1528
- Driver version: 3.23.2 (ixgbe)
#. Intel(R) 82599ES 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
- Firmware version: 0x61bf0001
- Device id (pf/vf): 8086:10fb / 8086:10ed
- Driver version: 4.0.1-k (ixgbe)
#. Intel(R) Corporation Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T
- Firmware version: 0x800001cf
- Device id (pf/vf): 8086:15ad / 8086:15a8
- Driver version: 4.2.5 (ixgbe)
#. Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA4 (4x10G)
- Firmware version: 5.04
- Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1572 / 8086:154c
- Driver version: 1.4.26 (i40e)
#. Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA2 (2x10G)
- Firmware version: 5.04
- Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1572 / 8086:154c
- Driver version: 1.4.25 (i40e)
#. Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710-QDA1 (1x40G)
- Firmware version: 5.04
- Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1584 / 8086:154c
- Driver version: 1.4.25 (i40e)
#. Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710-QDA2 (2X40G)
- Firmware version: 5.04
- Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1583 / 8086:154c
- Driver version: 1.4.25 (i40e)
#. Intel(R) Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
- Firmware version: 1.48, 0x800006e7
- Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1521 / 8086:1520
- Driver version: 5.2.13-k (igb)
#. Intel(R) Ethernet Multi-host Controller FM10000
- Firmware version: N/A
- Device id (pf/vf): 8086:15d0
- Driver version: 0.17.0.9 (fm10k)
Tested OSes
-----------
.. This section should contain a list of OSes that were tested with this release.
- CentOS 7.0
- Fedora 23
- Fedora 24
- FreeBSD 10.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
- SUSE Enterprise Linux 12
- Ubuntu 15.10
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Wind River Linux 8