* **Extended port_id range from uint8_t to uint16_t.**
- Increased port_id range from 8 bits to 16 bits in order to support more than
- 256 ports in dpdk. All ethdev APIs which have port_id as parameter are changed
- in the meantime.
+ Increased the ``port_id`` range from 8 bits to 16 bits in order to support
+ more than 256 ports in DPDK. All ethdev APIs which have ``port_id`` as
+ parameter have been changed.
* **Modified the return type of rte_eth_stats_reset.**
- Changed return type of ``rte_eth_stats_reset`` from ``void`` to ``int``
- so the caller may know whether a device supports the operation or not
+ Changed return type of ``rte_eth_stats_reset`` from ``void`` to ``int`` so
+ that the caller can determine whether a device supports the operation or not
and if the operation was carried out.
* **Added a new driver for Marvell Armada 7k/8k devices.**
- Added the new mrvl net driver for Marvell Armada 7k/8k devices. See the
- "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this new
- driver.
+ Added the new ``mrvl`` net driver for Marvell Armada 7k/8k devices. See the
+ :doc:`../nics/mrvl` NIC guide for more details on this new driver.
+
+* **Updated mlx4 driver.**
+
+ Updated the mlx4 driver including the following changes:
+
+ * Isolated mode (rte_flow) can now be enabled anytime, not only during
+ initial device configuration.
+ * Flow rules now support up to 4096 priority levels usable at will by
+ applications.
+ * Enhanced error message to help debugging invalid/unsupported flow rules.
+ * Flow rules matching all multicast and promiscuous traffic are now allowed.
+ * No more software restrictions on flow rules with the RSS action, their
+ configuration is much more flexible.
+ * Significantly reduced memory footprint for Rx and Tx queue objects.
+ * While supported, UDP RSS is temporarily disabled due to a remaining issue
+ with its support in the Linux kernel.
+ * The new RSS implementation does not automatically spread traffic according
+ to the inner packet of VXLAN frames anymore, only the outer one (like
+ other PMDs).
+ * Partial (Tx only) support for secondary processes was broken and had to be
+ removed.
+ * Refactored driver to get rid of dependency on the components provided by
+ Mellanox OFED and instead rely on the current and public rdma-core
+ package and Linux version from now on.
+ * Removed compile-time limitation on number of device instances the PMD
+ can support.
* **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.
+ * Enabled the PMD to run on top of upstream Linux kernel and rdma-core
+ libs, removing 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 support for vectorized Rx/Tx burst for ARMv8.
+ * Added support for secondary process.
+ * Added support for flow counters.
+ * Added support for Rx hardware timestamp offload.
+ * Added support for device removal event.
* **Added SoftNIC PMD.**
- Added new SoftNIC PMD. This virtual device offers applications a software
- fallback support for traffic management.
+ Added a new SoftNIC PMD. This virtual device provides applications with
+ software fallback support for traffic management.
* **Added support for NXP DPAA Devices.**
* DPAA Mempool driver for supporting offloaded packet memory pool
* DPAA PMD for DPAA devices
- See the "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details of
- this new driver.
+ See the :doc:`../nics/dpaa` document for more details of this new driver.
* **Updated support for Cavium OCTEONTX Device.**
- Updated support for Cavium's OCTEONTX device(CN83xx). This includes:
+ Updated support for Cavium's OCTEONTX device (CN83xx). This includes:
* OCTEONTX Mempool driver for supporting offloaded packet memory pool
* OCTEONTX Ethdev PMD
* OCTEONTX Eventdev-Ethdev Rx adapter
- See the "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details of
- this new driver.
+ See the :doc:`../nics/octeontx` document for more details of this new driver.
-* **nfp: Added PF support.**
+* **Added PF support to the Netronome NFP PMD.**
- Previously Netronome's NFP PMD had just support for VFs. PF support is
- just as a basic DPDK port and has no VF management yet.
+ Added PF support to the Netronome NFP PMD. Previously the NFP PMD only
+ supported VFs. PF support is just as a basic DPDK port and has no VF
+ management yet.
PF support comes with firmware upload support which allows the PMD to
independently work from kernel netdev NFP drivers.
* Support for Flow API
* Support for Tx and Rx descriptor status functions
-* **Add bus agnostic functions to cryptodev for PMD initialisation**
+* **Added bus agnostic functions to cryptodev for PMD initialization**
- Adds new PMD assist functions ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_parse_input_args()``,
- ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_destroy()`` which
- are bus independent for driver to manage creation and destruction of new
- device instances.
+ Added new PMD assist, bus independent, functions
+ ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_parse_input_args()``, ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()`` and
+ ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_destroy()`` for drivers to manage creation and
+ destruction of new device instances.
* **Updated QAT crypto PMD.**
- Performance enhancements:
+ Added several performance enhancements:
* Removed atomics from the internal queue pair structure.
- * Coalesce writes to HEAD CSR on response processing.
- * Coalesce writes to TAIL CSR on request processing.
+ * Added coalesce writes to HEAD CSR on response processing.
+ * Added coalesce writes to TAIL CSR on request processing.
- Additional support for:
-
- * AES CCM algorithm.
+ In addition support was added for the AES CCM algorithm.
* **Updated the AESNI MB PMD.**
The AESNI MB PMD has been updated with additional support for:
- * DES CBC algorithm.
- * DES DOCSIS BPI algorithm.
+ * The DES CBC algorithm.
+ * The DES DOCSIS BPI algorithm.
- This requires the IPSec Multi-buffer library 0.47. For more details,
- check out the AESNI MB PMD documenation.
+ This change requires version 0.47 of the IPSec Multi-buffer library. For
+ more details see the :doc:`../cryptodevs/aesni_mb` documentation.
* **Updated the OpenSSL PMD.**
The OpenSSL PMD has been updated with additional support for:
- * DES CBC algorithm.
- * AES CCM algorithm.
+ * The DES CBC algorithm.
+ * The AES CCM algorithm.
* **Added NXP DPAA SEC crypto PMD.**
- A new "dpaa_sec" hardware based crypto PMD for NXP DPAA devices has been
- added. See the "Crypto Device Drivers" document for more details on this
- driver.
+ A new ``dpaa_sec`` hardware based crypto PMD for NXP DPAA devices has been
+ added. See the :doc:`../cryptodevs/dpaa_sec` document for more details.
* **Added MRVL crypto PMD.**
A new crypto PMD has been added, which provides several ciphering and hashing
algorithms. All cryptography operations use the MUSDK library crypto API.
+ See the :doc:`../cryptodevs/mrvl` document for more details.
* **Add new benchmarking mode to dpdk-test-crypto-perf application.**
- Added new "PMD cyclecount" benchmark mode to dpdk-test-crypto-perf application
- that displays more detailed breakdown of CPU cycles used by hardware
+ Added a new "PMD cyclecount" benchmark mode to the ``dpdk-test-crypto-perf``
+ application to display a detailed breakdown of CPU cycles used by hardware
acceleration.
* **Added the Security Offload Library.**
- Added an experimental library - rte_security. It provide security APIs for
- protocols like IPSec using inline ipsec offload to ethernet device or full
- protocol offload with lookaside crypto device.
+ Added an experimental library - ``rte_security``. This provide security APIs
+ for protocols like IPSec using inline ipsec offload to ethernet devices or
+ full protocol offload with lookaside crypto devices.
- See the "Security_Library" section of the DPDK Programmers Guide document,
- for more information.
+ See the :doc:`../prog_guide/rte_security` section of the DPDK Programmers
+ Guide document for more information.
-* **Updated DPAA2_SEC crypto driver.**
+* **Updated the DPAA2_SEC crypto driver to support rte_security.**
- Updated dpaa2_sec crypto PMD to support rte_security lookaside protocol
- offload for IPSec.
+ Updated the ``dpaa2_sec`` crypto PMD to support ``rte_security`` lookaside
+ protocol offload for IPSec.
-* **Updated IXGBE ethernet driver.**
+* **Updated the IXGBE ethernet driver to support rte_security.**
- Updated ixgbe ethernet PMD to support rte_security inline IPSec offload.
+ Updated ixgbe ethernet PMD to support ``rte_security`` inline IPSec offload.
-* **Updated ipsec-secgw application**
+* **Updated ipsec-secgw application to support rte_security.**
- Updated ipsec-secgw sample application to support rte_security actions for
- ipsec inline and full protocol offload using lookaside crypto offload.
+ Updated the ``ipsec-secgw`` sample application to support ``rte_security``
+ actions for ipsec inline and full protocol offload using lookaside crypto
+ offload.
* **Added IOMMU support to libvhost-user**
- Implemented device IOTLB in Vhost-user backend, and enabled Virtio's IOMMU
- feature. The feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled by setting
- RTE_VHOST_USER_IOMMU_SUPPORT flag at vhost device registration time.
+ Implemented device IOTLB in the Vhost-user backend, and enabled Virtio's
+ IOMMU feature. The feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled by
+ setting ``RTE_VHOST_USER_IOMMU_SUPPORT`` flag at vhost device registration
+ time.
* **Added the Event Ethernet Adapter Library.**
- Added the Event Ethernet Adapter library. It provices APIs for
- eventdev applications to configure the ethdev to eventdev packet flow.
+ Added the Event Ethernet Adapter library. This library provides APIs for
+ eventdev applications to configure the ethdev for eventdev packet flow.
-* **Updated DPAA2 Event PMD.**
+* **Updated DPAA2 Event PMD for the Event Ethernet Adapter.**
- Added support for eventdev ethernet adapter for DPAA2.
+ Added support for the eventdev ethernet adapter for DPAA2.
* **Added Membership library (rte_member).**
- Added membership library. It provides an API for DPDK applications to insert a
- new member, delete an existing member, or query the existence of a member in a
- given set, or a group of sets. For the case of a group of sets the library
- will return not only whether the element has been inserted before in one of
- the sets but also which set it belongs to.
+ Added a new data structure library called the Membership Library.
The Membership Library is an extension and generalization of a traditional
- filter (for example Bloom Filter) structure that has multiple usages in a wide
- variety of workloads and applications. In general, the Membership Library is a
- data structure that provides a “set-summary” and responds to set-membership
- queries whether a certain member belongs to a set(s).
+ filter (for example Bloom Filter) structure that has multiple usages in a
+ wide variety of workloads and applications. In general, the Membership
+ Library is a data structure that provides a "set-summary" and responds to
+ set-membership queries whether a certain member belongs to a set(s).
+
+ The library provides APIs for DPDK applications to insert a new member,
+ delete an existing member, and query the existence of a member in a given
+ set, or a group of sets. For the case of a group of sets the library will
+ return not only whether the element has been inserted in one of the sets but
+ also which set it belongs to.
- See the :ref:`Membership Library <Member_Library>` documentation in
- the Programmers Guide document, for more information.
+ See the :doc:`../prog_guide/member_lib` documentation in the Programmers
+ Guide, for more information.
* **Added the Generic Segmentation Offload Library.**
* **Added the Flow Classification Library.**
- Added the Flow Classification library, it provides an API for DPDK
- applications to classify an input packet by matching it against a set of flow
- rules. It uses the librte_table API to manage the flow rules.
+ Added an experimental Flow Classification library to provide APIs for DPDK
+ applications to classify an input packet by matching it against a set of
+ flow rules. It uses the ``librte_table`` API to manage the flow rules.
Resolved Issues
=========================================================
-EAL
-~~~
-
* **Service core fails to call service callback due to atomic lock**
In a specific configuration of multi-thread unsafe services and service
looked like another thread was executing the service callback. The logic for
atomic locking of the services has been fixed and refactored for readability.
-Drivers
-~~~~~~~
-
-
-Libraries
-~~~~~~~~~
-
-
-Examples
-~~~~~~~~
-
-
-Other
-~~~~~
-
-
-Known Issues
-------------
-
-.. This section should contain new known issues in this release. Sample format:
-
- * **Add title in present tense with full stop.**
-
- Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the known issue in the present
- tense. Add information on any known workarounds.
-
- This section is a comment. do not overwrite or remove it.
- Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
- =========================================================
-
API Changes
-----------
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-* **Ethdev device name length increased**
+* **Ethdev device name length increased.**
- The size of internal device name is increased to 64 characters
- to allow for storing longer bus specific name.
+ The size of internal device name has been increased to 64 characters
+ to allow for storing longer bus specific names.
-* **Ethdev flag RTE_ETH_DEV_DETACHABLE was removed**
+* **Removed the Ethdev RTE_ETH_DEV_DETACHABLE flag.**
- This flag is not necessary anymore, with the new hotplug implementation.
- It is now removed from the ether library. Its semantic is expressed at the bus
- and PMD level.
+ Removed the Ethdev ``RTE_ETH_DEV_DETACHABLE`` flag. This flag is not
+ required anymore, with the new hotplug implementation. It has been removed
+ from the ether library. Its semantics are now expressed at the bus and PMD
+ level.
* **Service cores API updated for usability**
- The service cores API has been changed, removing pointers from the API
- where possible, instead using integer IDs to identify each service. This
- simplifed application code, aids debugging, and provides better
+ The service cores API has been changed, removing pointers from the API where
+ possible, and instead using integer IDs to identify each service. This
+ simplifies application code, aids debugging, and provides better
encapsulation. A summary of the main changes made is as follows:
* Services identified by ID not by ``rte_service_spec`` pointer
* Reduced API surface by using ``set`` functions instead of enable/disable
* Reworked ``rte_service_register`` to provide the service ID to registrar
- * Rework start and stop APIs into ``rte_service_runstate_set``
- * Added API to set runstate of service implementation to indicate readyness
+ * Reworked start and stop APIs into ``rte_service_runstate_set``
+ * Added API to set runstate of service implementation to indicate readiness
-* **The following changes made in mempool library**
+* **The following changes have been made in the mempool library**
- * Moved ``flags`` datatype from int to unsigned int for ``rte_mempool``.
+ * Moved ``flags`` datatype from ``int`` to ``unsigned int`` for
+ ``rte_mempool``.
* Removed ``__rte_unused int flag`` param from ``rte_mempool_generic_put``
and ``rte_mempool_generic_get`` API.
* Added ``flags`` param in ``rte_mempool_xmem_size`` and
``rte_mempool_xmem_usage``.
+ * ``rte_mem_phy2mch`` was used in Xen dom0 to obtain the physical address;
+ remove this API as Xen dom0 support was removed.
-* ``rte_mem_phy2mch`` was used in Xen dom0 to obtain the physical address;
- remove this API as Xen dom0 support was removed.
+* **Added IOVA aliases related to physical address handling.**
-* **Some data type, structure members and functions related to physical address
- are deprecated and have new alias with IOVA wording.**
+ Some data types, structure members and functions related to physical address
+ handling are deprecated and have new aliases with IOVA wording. For example:
* ``phys_addr_t`` can be often replaced by ``rte_iova_t`` of same size.
* ``RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR`` is often replaced by ``RTE_BAD_IOVA`` of same value.
* ``rte_mem_virt2phy()`` can often be replaced by ``rte_mem_virt2iova``.
* ``rte_malloc_virt2phy`` is aliased with ``rte_malloc_virt2iova``.
* ``rte_memzone.phys_addr`` is aliased with ``rte_memzone.iova``.
- * ``rte_mempool_objhdr.physaddr`` is aliased with ``rte_mempool_objhdr.iova``.
- * ``rte_mempool_memhdr.phys_addr`` is aliased with ``rte_mempool_memhdr.iova``.
+ * ``rte_mempool_objhdr.physaddr`` is aliased with
+ ``rte_mempool_objhdr.iova``.
+ * ``rte_mempool_memhdr.phys_addr`` is aliased with
+ ``rte_mempool_memhdr.iova``.
* ``rte_mempool_virt2phy()`` can be replaced by ``rte_mempool_virt2iova()``.
- * ``rte_mempool_populate_phys*()`` are aliased with ``rte_mempool_populate_iova*()``
+ * ``rte_mempool_populate_phys*()`` are aliased with
+ ``rte_mempool_populate_iova*()``
* ``rte_mbuf.buf_physaddr`` is aliased with ``rte_mbuf.buf_iova``.
* ``rte_mbuf_data_dma_addr*()`` are aliased with ``rte_mbuf_data_iova*()``.
* ``rte_pktmbuf_mtophys*`` are aliased with ``rte_pktmbuf_iova*()``.
The PCI bus previously implemented within the EAL has been moved.
A first part has been added as an RTE library providing PCI helpers to
parse device locations or other such utilities.
- A second part consisting in the actual bus driver has been moved to its
+ A second part consisting of the actual bus driver has been moved to its
proper subdirectory, without changing its functionalities.
- As such, several PCI-related functions are not proposed by the EAL anymore:
-
- * rte_pci_detach
- * rte_pci_dump
- * rte_pci_ioport_map
- * rte_pci_ioport_read
- * rte_pci_ioport_unmap
- * rte_pci_ioport_write
- * rte_pci_map_device
- * rte_pci_probe
- * rte_pci_probe_one
- * rte_pci_read_config
- * rte_pci_register
- * rte_pci_scan
- * rte_pci_unmap_device
- * rte_pci_unregister
- * rte_pci_write_config
+ As such, several PCI-related functions are not exposed by the EAL anymore:
+
+ * ``rte_pci_detach``
+ * ``rte_pci_dump``
+ * ``rte_pci_ioport_map``
+ * ``rte_pci_ioport_read``
+ * ``rte_pci_ioport_unmap``
+ * ``rte_pci_ioport_write``
+ * ``rte_pci_map_device``
+ * ``rte_pci_probe``
+ * ``rte_pci_probe_one``
+ * ``rte_pci_read_config``
+ * ``rte_pci_register``
+ * ``rte_pci_scan``
+ * ``rte_pci_unmap_device``
+ * ``rte_pci_unregister``
+ * ``rte_pci_write_config``
These functions are made available either as part of ``librte_pci`` or
``librte_bus_pci``.
* **Moved vdev bus APIs outside of the EAL**
Moved the following APIs from ``librte_eal`` to ``librte_bus_vdev``:
+
* ``rte_vdev_init``
* ``rte_vdev_register``
* ``rte_vdev_uninit``
* **Add return value to stats_get dev op API**
The ``stats_get`` dev op API return value has been changed to be int.
- By this way PMDs can return an error value in case of failure at stats
+ In this way PMDs can return an error value in case of failure at stats
getting process time.
-* **Modified the rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver function in the cryptodev library.**
+* **Modified the rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver function.**
- The function ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver()`` has been modified.
- An extra parameter ``struct cryptodev_driver *crypto_drv`` has been added.
+ Modified the ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver()`` function in the cryptodev
+ library. An extra parameter ``struct cryptodev_driver *crypto_drv`` has been
+ added.
* **Removed virtual device bus specific functions from librte_cryptodev.**
and have been replaced by non bus specific functions
``rte_cryptodev_pmd_parse_input_args()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()``.
-* ``rte_cryptodev_create_vdev`` was removed to avoid the dependency on vdev
- in librte_cryptodev; instead, users can call rte_vdev_init() directly.
+ The ``rte_cryptodev_create_vdev()`` function was removed to avoid the
+ dependency on vdev in librte_cryptodev; instead, users can call
+ ``rte_vdev_init()`` directly.
* **Removed PCI device bus specific functions from librte_cryptodev.**
The functions ``rte_set_log_level()``, ``rte_get_log_level()``,
``rte_set_log_type()`` and ``rte_get_log_type()`` have been removed.
+
They are respectively replaced by ``rte_log_set_global_level()``,
``rte_log_get_global_level()``, ``rte_log_set_level()`` and
``rte_log_get_level()``.
-* **Removed ``mbuf`` flags ``PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT`` and ``PKT_RX_QINQ_PKT``.**
+* **Removed mbuf flags PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT and PKT_RX_QINQ_PKT.**
The ``mbuf`` flags ``PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT`` and ``PKT_RX_QINQ_PKT`` have
- been removed since their behavior were not properly described.
+ been removed since their behavior was not properly described.
-* **Added ``mbuf`` flags ``PKT_RX_VLAN`` and ``PKT_RX_QINQ``.**
+* **Added mbuf flags PKT_RX_VLAN and PKT_RX_QINQ.**
Two ``mbuf`` flags have been added to indicate that the VLAN
identifier has been saved in in the ``mbuf`` structure. For instance:
- - if VLAN is not stripped and TCI is saved: ``PKT_RX_VLAN``
- - if VLAN is stripped and TCI is saved: ``PKT_RX_VLAN | PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED``
+ - If VLAN is not stripped and TCI is saved: ``PKT_RX_VLAN``
+ - If VLAN is stripped and TCI is saved: ``PKT_RX_VLAN | PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED``
* **Modified the vlan_offload_set_t function prototype in the ethdev library.**
- Changed the function prototype of ``vlan_offload_set_t``. The return value
- has been changed from ``void`` to ``int`` so the caller to knows whether
- the backing device supports the operation or if the operation was
- successfully performed.
+ Modified the ``vlan_offload_set_t`` function prototype in the ethdev
+ library. The return value has been changed from ``void`` to ``int`` so the
+ caller can determine whether the backing device supports the operation or if
+ the operation was successfully performed.
ABI Changes
* **Extended port_id range.**
The size of the field ``port_id`` in the ``rte_eth_dev_data`` structure
- changed, as described in the `New Features` section.
+ has changed, as described in the `New Features` section above.
* **New parameter added to rte_eth_dev.**
- New parameter ``security_ctx`` added to ``rte_eth_dev`` to support security
- operations like IPSec inline.
+ A new parameter ``security_ctx`` has been added to ``rte_eth_dev`` to
+ support security operations like IPSec inline.
* **New parameter added to rte_cryptodev.**
- New parameter ``security_ctx`` added to ``rte_cryptodev`` to support security
- operations like lookaside crypto.
+ A new parameter ``security_ctx`` has been added to ``rte_cryptodev`` to
+ support security operations like lookaside crypto.
Removed Items
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-* Xen dom0 in EAL was removed, as well as xenvirt PMD and vhost_xen.
+* Xen dom0 in EAL has been removed, as well as the xenvirt PMD and vhost_xen.
* The crypto performance unit tests have been removed,
- replaced by the dpdk-test-crypto-perf application.
+ replaced by the ``dpdk-test-crypto-perf`` application.
Shared Library Versions
librte_acl.so.2
+ librte_bitratestats.so.2
+ + librte_bus_dpaa.so.1
+ + librte_bus_fslmc.so.1
+ + librte_bus_pci.so.1
+ librte_bus_vdev.so.1
librte_cfgfile.so.2
librte_cmdline.so.2
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+
+* Intel(R) platforms with Intel(R) NICs combinations
+
+ * CPU
+
+ * Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2758 @ 2.40GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1540 @ 2.00GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1541 @ 2.10GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-4667 v3 @ 2.00GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v4 @ 2.10GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2658 v2 @ 2.40GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2658 v3 @ 2.20GHz
+
+ * OS:
+
+ * CentOS 7.2
+ * Fedora 25
+ * Fedora 26
+ * FreeBSD 11
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3
+ * SUSE Enterprise Linux 12
+ * Wind River Linux 8
+ * Ubuntu 16.04
+ * Ubuntu 16.10
+
+ * NICs:
+
+ * Intel(R) 82599ES 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
+
+ * Firmware version: 0x61bf0001
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:10fb / 8086:10ed
+ * Driver version: 5.2.3 (ixgbe)
+
+ * Intel(R) Corporation Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T
+
+ * Firmware version: 0x800003e7
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:15ad / 8086:15a8
+ * Driver version: 4.4.6 (ixgbe)
+
+ * Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA4 (4x10G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 6.01 0x80003205
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1572 / 8086:154c
+ * Driver version: 2.1.26 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA2 (2x10G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 6.01 0x80003204
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1572 / 8086:154c
+ * Driver version: 2.1.26 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (2x25G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 6.01 0x80003221
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:158b
+ * Driver version: 2.1.26 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710-QDA2 (2X40G)
+
+ * Firmware version: 6.01 0x8000321c
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1583 / 8086:154c
+ * Driver version: 2.1.26 (i40e)
+
+ * Intel(R) Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
+
+ * Firmware version: 1.63, 0x80000dda
+ * Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1521 / 8086:1520
+ * Driver version: 5.3.0-k (igb)
+
+* Intel(R) platforms with Mellanox(R) NICs combinations
+
+ * Platform details:
+
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697A v4 @ 2.60GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 @ 2.50GHz
+ * Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz
+
+ * OS:
+
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)
+ * Ubuntu 16.10
+ * Ubuntu 16.04
+ * Ubuntu 14.04
+
+ * MLNX_OFED: 4.2-1.0.0.0
+
+ * NICs:
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-3 Pro 40G MCX354A-FCC_Ax (2x40G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1007
+ * Firmware version: 2.42.5000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 10G MCX4111A-XCAT (1x10G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 10G MCX4121A-XCAT (2x10G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 25G MCX4111A-ACAT (1x25G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 40G MCX4131A-BCAT/MCX413A-BCAT (1x40G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 40G MCX415A-BCAT (1x40G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX4131A-GCAT/MCX413A-GCAT (1x50G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX414A-BCAT (2x50G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX415A-GCAT/MCX416A-BCAT/MCX416A-GCAT
+ (2x50G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 50G MCX415A-CCAT (1x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 100G MCX416A-CCAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1013
+ * Firmware version: 12.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 Lx 10G MCX4121A-XCAT (2x10G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1015
+ * Firmware version: 14.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 Lx 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1015
+ * Firmware version: 14.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-5 100G MCX556A-ECAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1017
+ * Firmware version: 16.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX-5 Ex EN 100G MCX516A-CDAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1019
+ * Firmware version: 16.21.1000
+
+* ARM platforms with Mellanox(R) NICs combinations
+
+ * Platform details:
+
+ * Qualcomm ARM 1.1 2500MHz
+
+ * OS:
+
+ * Ubuntu 16.04
+
+ * MLNX_OFED: 4.2-1.0.0.0
+
+ * NICs:
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-4 Lx 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1015
+ * Firmware version: 14.21.1000
+
+ * Mellanox(R) ConnectX(R)-5 100G MCX556A-ECAT (2x100G)
+
+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Device ID: 15b3:1017
+ * Firmware version: 16.21.1000
+
+Fixes in 17.11 LTS Release
+--------------------------
+
+17.11.1
+~~~~~~~
+
+* app/procinfo: add compilation option in config
+* app/testpmd: fix crash of txonly with multiple segments
+* app/testpmd: fix flow director filter
+* app/testpmd: fix flowgen forwarding offload flags
+* app/testpmd: fix invalid Rx queue number setting
+* app/testpmd: fix invalid Tx queue number setting
+* app/testpmd: fix port configuration print
+* app/testpmd: fix port id allocation
+* app/testpmd: fix port index in RSS forward config
+* app/testpmd: fix port topology in RSS forward config
+* app/testpmd: fix port validation
+* app/testpmd: remove xenvirt again
+* bus/dpaa: fix ARM big endian build
+* bus/dpaa: fix build when assert enabled
+* bus/dpaa: fix default IOVA mode
+* bus/fslmc: fix build with latest glibc
+* bus/fslmc: fix the cplusplus macro closure
+* bus/pci: fix interrupt handler type
+* bus/pci: forbid IOVA mode if IOMMU address width too small
+* bus/vdev: continue probing after a device failure
+* cmdline: avoid garbage in unused fields of parsed result
+* cmdline: fix dynamic tokens parsing
+* cryptodev: add missing CPU flag string
+* cryptodev: fix function prototype
+* cryptodev: fix session pointer cast
+* crypto/dpaa2_sec: fix enum conversion for GCM
+* crypto: fix pedantic compilation
+* crypto/qat: fix allocation check and leak
+* crypto/qat: fix null auth algo overwrite
+* crypto/qat: fix out-of-bounds access
+* crypto/qat: fix parameter type
+* crypto/scheduler: fix strncpy
+* doc: fix format in OpenSSL installation guide
+* doc: fix lists of supported crypto algorithms
+* drivers: change the deprecated memseg physaddr to IOVA
+* eal/arm64: remove the braces in memory barrier macros
+* eal/ppc64: revert arch-specific TSC freq query
+* eal/ppc: remove the braces in memory barrier macros
+* ethdev: fix link autonegotiation value
+* ethdev: fix missing imissed counter in xstats
+* ethdev: fix port data reset timing
+* ethdev: fix port id allocation
+* eventdev: fix doxygen comments
+* eventdev: set error code in port link/unlink functions
+* event/octeontx: fix Rx adapter port id mapping
+* event/sw: fix debug logging config option
+* event/sw: fix queue memory leak and multi-link bug
+* examples/bond: check mbuf allocation
+* examples/bond: fix vdev name
+* examples/ip_pipeline: fix timer period unit
+* examples/ipsec-secgw: fix corner case for SPI value
+* examples/ipsec-secgw: fix missing ingress flow attribute
+* examples/ipsec-secgw: fix SPI byte order in flow item
+* examples/ipsec-secgw: fix usage of incorrect port
+* examples/l3fwd-power: fix frequency detection
+* examples/l3fwd-power: fix Rx without interrupt
+* examples/vhost: fix sending ARP packet to self
+* examples/vhost: fix startup check
+* flow_classify: fix ISO C in exported header
+* igb_uio: allow multi-process access
+* keepalive: fix state alignment
+* kni: fix build dependency
+* kni: fix build with kernel 4.15
+* lib: fix missing includes in exported headers
+* log: fix memory leak in regexp level set
+* lpm: fix ARM big endian build
+* malloc: fix end for bounded elements
+* malloc: protect stats with lock
+* mbuf: fix NULL freeing when debug enabled
+* mbuf: fix performance of freeing with non atomic refcnt
+* member: fix ISO C in exported header
+* member: fix memory leak on error
+* mempool: fix first memory area notification
+* mempool: fix physical contiguous check
+* mempool/octeontx: fix improper memory barrier
+* mempool/octeontx: fix memory area registration
+* mempool/octeontx: fix natural alignment being optimized out
+* memzone: fix leak on allocation error
+* mk: fix external build
+* mk: remove TILE-Gx machine type
+* mk: support renamed Makefile in external project
+* net/bnxt: fix check for ether type
+* net/bnxt: fix double increment of idx during Tx ring alloc
+* net/bnxt: fix duplicate filter pattern creation error
+* net/bnxt: fix duplicate pattern for 5tuple filter
+* net/bnxt: fix group info usage
+* net/bnxt: fix link speed setting with autoneg off
+* net/bnxt: fix number of pools for RSS
+* net/bnxt: fix return code in MAC address set
+* net/bnxt: fix Rx checksum flags
+* net/bnxt: fix size of Tx ring in HW
+* net/bnxt: free the aggregation ring
+* net/bnxt: parse checksum offload flags
+* net/bonding: check error of MAC address setting
+* net/bonding: fix activated slave in 8023ad mode
+* net/bonding: fix bonding in 8023ad mode
+* net/bonding: fix setting slave MAC addresses
+* net/dpaa: fix FW version code
+* net/dpaa: fix potential memory leak
+* net/dpaa: fix the mbuf packet type if zero
+* net/dpaa: fix uninitialized and unused variables
+* net/e1000: fix null pointer check
+* net/e1000: fix VF Rx interrupt enabling
+* net/ena: do not set Tx L4 offloads in Rx path
+* net/enic: fix crash due to static max number of queues
+* net/enic: fix L4 Rx ptype comparison
+* net/failsafe: fix invalid free
+* net/failsafe: fix Rx safe check compiler hint
+* net: fix ESP header byte ordering definition
+* net/fm10k: fix logical port delete
+* net/i40e: add debug logs when writing global registers
+* net/i40e: add FDIR NVGRE parameter check
+* net/i40e: check multi-driver option parsing
+* net/i40e: exclude LLDP packet count
+* net/i40e: fix ARM big endian build
+* net/i40e: fix FDIR input set conflict
+* net/i40e: fix FDIR rule confiliction issue
+* net/i40e: fix flag for MAC address write
+* net/i40e: fix flow director Rx resource defect
+* net/i40e: fix interrupt conflict with multi-driver
+* net/i40e: fix ISO C in exported header
+* net/i40e: fix memory leak
+* net/i40e: fix multiple DDP packages conflict
+* net/i40e: fix multiple driver support
+* net/i40e: fix packet type for X722
+* net/i40e: fix port segmentation fault when restart
+* net/i40e: fix Rx interrupt
+* net/i40e: fix setting MAC address of VF
+* net/i40e: fix setting of MAC address on i40evf
+* net/i40e: fix VF reset stats crash
+* net/i40e: fix VF Rx interrupt enabling
+* net/i40e: fix VLAN offload setting
+* net/i40e: fix VLAN offload setting issue
+* net/i40e: fix VSI MAC filter on primary address change
+* net/i40e: warn when writing global registers
+* net/igb: fix Tx queue number assignment
+* net/ixgbe: fix ARM big endian build
+* net/ixgbe: fix max queue number for VF
+* net/ixgbe: fix parsing FDIR NVGRE issue
+* net/ixgbe: fix reset error handling
+* net/ixgbe: fix the failure of number of Tx queue check
+* net/ixgbe: fix tunnel filter fail problem
+* net/ixgbe: fix VF Rx interrupt enabling
+* net/ixgbe: fix wrong PBA setting
+* net/mlx4: fix drop flow resources leak
+* net/mlx4: fix Rx offload non-fragmented indication
+* net/mlx4: fix Tx packet drop application report
+* net/mlx4: fix unnecessary include
+* net/mlx4: revert workaround for broken Verbs
+* net/mlx5: cleanup allocation of ethtool stats
+* net/mlx5: fix calculation of flow ID flag
+* net/mlx5: fix deadlock of link status alarm
+* net/mlx5: fix flow item validation
+* net/mlx5: fix flow priority on queue action
+* net/mlx5: fix flow RSS configuration
+* net/mlx5: fix handling link status event
+* net/mlx5: fix HW checksum offload for outer IP
+* net/mlx5: fix link state on device start
+* net/mlx5: fix memory region boundary checks
+* net/mlx5: fix memory region cache last index
+* net/mlx5: fix memory region cache lookup
+* net/mlx5: fix memory region lookup
+* net/mlx5: fix Memory Region registration
+* net/mlx5: fix missing attribute size for drop action
+* net/mlx5: fix missing RSS capability
+* net/mlx5: fix overflow of Memory Region cache
+* net/mlx5: fix overwriting bit-fields in SW Rx queue
+* net/mlx5: fix port stop by verify flows are still present
+* net/mlx5: fix return value of start operation
+* net/mlx5: fix RSS key configuration
+* net/mlx5: fix secondary process verification
+* net/mlx5: fix Tx checksum offloads
+* net/mlx5: fix UAR remapping on non configured queues
+* net/mlx5: fix un-supported RSS hash fields use
+* net/mlx5: fix VLAN configuration after port stop
+* net/mlx5: remove parser/flow drop queue
+* net/mlx5: use PCI address as port name
+* net/mrvl: fix HIF objects allocation
+* net/mrvl: fix multiple probe
+* net/mrvl: fix oversize bpool handling
+* net/mrvl: fix shadow queue tail and size calculations
+* net/mrvl: keep shadow Txqs inside PMD Txq
+* net/nfp: fix CRC strip check behaviour
+* net/nfp: fix jumbo settings
+* net/nfp: fix MTU settings
+* net/octeontx: add channel to port id mapping
+* net/pcap: fix the NUMA id display in logs
+* net/qede/base: fix VF LRO tunnel configuration
+* net/qede: check tunnel L3 header
+* net/qede: fix clearing of queue stats
+* net/qede: fix few log messages
+* net/qede: fix MTU set and max Rx length
+* net/qede: fix to enable LRO over tunnels
+* net/qede: fix to reject config with no Rx queue
+* net/qede: fix tunnel header size in Tx BD configuration
+* net/qede: replace config option with run-time arg
+* net/sfc: do not hold management event queue lock while MCDI
+* net/sfc: fix DMA memory leak after kvarg processing failure
+* net/sfc: fix flow RSS check in error handling
+* net/sfc: fix incorrect bitwise ORing of L3/L4 packet types
+* net/sfc: fix initialization of flow structure
+* net/sfc: fix label name to be consistent
+* net/sfc: fix main MAC address handling
+* net/sfc: fix multicast address list copy memory leak
+* net/sfc: stop periodic DMA if MAC stats upload fails
+* net/szedata2: fix check of mmap return value
+* net/tap: fix cleanup on allocation failure
+* net/tap: remove unused kernel version definitions
+* net/thunderx: fix multi segment Tx function return
+* net/virtio: fix incorrect cast
+* net/virtio: fix memory leak when reinitializing device
+* net/virtio: fix queue flushing with vector Rx enabled
+* net/virtio: fix Rx and Tx handler selection for ARM32
+* net/virtio: fix typo in LRO support
+* net/virtio: fix vector Rx flushing
+* net/virtio-user: fix crash as features change
+* pdump: fix error check when creating/canceling thread
+* pmdinfogen: fix cross compilation for ARM big endian
+* security: fix device operation type
+* security: fix enum start value
+* security: fix pedantic compilation
+* service: fix lcore role after delete
+* service: fix number mapped cores count
+* service: fix possible mem leak on initialize
+* service: fix service core launch
+* test/bitmap: fix memory leak
+* test/crypto: fix missing include
+* test/eventdev: use CPU event type
+* test/memzone: fix freeing test
+* test/memzone: fix NULL freeing
+* test/memzone: fix wrong test
+* test: register test as failed if setup failed
+* test/reorder: fix memory leak
+* test/ring: fix memory leak
+* test/ring_perf: fix memory leak
+* test/table: fix memory leak
+* test/table: fix uninitialized parameter
+* test/timer_perf: fix memory leak
+* timer: fix reset on service cores
+* usertools/devbind: fix kernel module reporting
+* vfio: fix enabled check on error
+* vhost: fix crash
+* vhost: fix dequeue zero copy with virtio1
+* vhost: fix error code check when creating thread
+* vhost: fix IOTLB pool out-of-memory handling
+* vhost: fix mbuf free
+* vhost: protect active rings from async ring changes
+* vhost: remove pending IOTLB entry if miss request failed
+
+17.11.2
+~~~~~~~
+
+* examples/vhost: move to safe GPA translation API
+* examples/vhost_scsi: move to safe GPA translation API
+* vhost: add support for non-contiguous indirect descs tables (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
+* vhost: check all range is mapped when translating GPAs (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
+* vhost: deprecate unsafe GPA translation API (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
+* vhost: ensure all range is mapped when translating QVAs (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
+* vhost: fix indirect descriptors table translation size (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
+* vhost: handle virtually non-contiguous buffers in Rx (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
+* vhost: handle virtually non-contiguous buffers in Rx-mrg (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
+* vhost: handle virtually non-contiguous buffers in Tx (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
+* vhost: introduce safe API for GPA translation (fixes CVE-2018-1059)
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