numam-dpdk/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_2.rst
Rahul Lakkireddy bf89cbedd2 cxgbe: optimize forwarding performance for 40G
Update sge initialization with respect to free-list manager configuration
and ingress arbiter. Also update refill logic to refill mbufs only after
a certain threshold for rx.  Optimize tx packet prefetch.

Approx. 3 MPPS improvement seen in forwarding performance after the
optimization.

Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumaras@chelsio.com>
2015-10-20 18:49:18 +02:00

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DPDK Release 2.2
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New Features
------------
* **Enhanced support for the Chelsio CXGBE driver.**
* Optimize forwarding performance for Chelsio T5 40GbE cards.
Resolved Issues
---------------
EAL
~~~
* **eal/linux: Fixed epoll timeout.**
Fixed issue where the ``rte_epoll_wait()`` function didn't return when the
underlying call to ``epoll_wait()`` timed out.
Drivers
~~~~~~~
* **ixgbe: Fixed issue with X550 DCB.**
Fixed a DCB issue with x550 where for 8 TCs (Traffic Classes), if a packet
with user priority 6 or 7 was injected to the NIC, then the NIC would only
put 3 packets into the queue. There was also a similar issue for 4 TCs.
* **ixgbe: Removed burst size restriction of vector RX.**
Fixed issue where a burst size less than 32 didn't receive anything.
* **i40e: Fixed base driver allocation when not using first numa node.**
Fixed i40e issue that occurred when a DPDK application didn't initialize
ports if memory wasn't available on socket 0.
* **vhost: Fixed Qemu shutdown.**
Fixed issue with libvirt ``virsh destroy`` not killing the VM.
Libraries
~~~~~~~~~
* **hash: Fixed memory allocation of Cuckoo Hash key table.**
Fixed issue where an incorrect Cuckoo Hash key table size could be
calculated limiting the size to 4GB.
Examples
~~~~~~~~
Other
~~~~~
Known Issues
------------
API Changes
-----------
* The deprecated flow director API is removed.
It was replaced by rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl().
* The function rte_eal_pci_close_one() is removed.
It was replaced by rte_eal_pci_detach().
* The deprecated ACL API ipv4vlan is removed.
* The deprecated hash function rte_jhash2() is removed.
It was replaced by rte_jhash_32b().
* The deprecated KNI functions are removed:
rte_kni_create(), rte_kni_get_port_id() and rte_kni_info_get().
* The deprecated ring PMD functions are removed:
rte_eth_ring_pair_create() and rte_eth_ring_pair_attach().
ABI Changes
-----------
* The EAL and ethdev structures rte_intr_handle and rte_eth_conf were changed
to support Rx interrupt. It was already done in 2.1 for CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.
* The ethdev flow director entries for SCTP were changed.
It was already done in 2.1 for CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.
* The mbuf structure was changed to support unified packet type.
It was already done in 2.1 for CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.
* The dummy malloc library is removed. The content was moved into EAL in 2.1.
* The LPM structure is changed. The deprecated field mem_location is removed.
* librte_table LPM: A new parameter to hold the table name will be added to
the LPM table parameter structure.
* librte_port: Macros to access the packet meta-data stored within the packet
buffer has been adjusted to cover the packet mbuf structure.
Shared Library Versions
-----------------------
The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
.. code-block:: diff
+ libethdev.so.2
+ librte_acl.so.2
librte_cfgfile.so.1
librte_cmdline.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.1
librte_meter.so.1
librte_pipeline.so.1
librte_pmd_bond.so.1
+ librte_pmd_ring.so.2
+ librte_port.so.2
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.1