1..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2    Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation.
3
4DPDK Release 2.0
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6
7
8New Features
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10
11*   Poll-mode driver support for an early release of the PCIE host interface of the Intel(R) Ethernet Switch FM10000.
12
13    *   Basic Rx/Tx functions for PF/VF
14
15    *   Interrupt handling support for PF/VF
16
17    *   Per queue start/stop functions for PF/VF
18
19    *   Support Mailbox handling between PF/VF and PF/Switch Manager
20
21    *   Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for PF/VF
22
23    *   Scatter receive function for PF/VF
24
25    *   Reta update/query for PF/VF
26
27    *   VLAN filter set for PF
28
29    *   Link status query for PF/VF
30
31.. note:: The software is intended to run on pre-release hardware and may contain unknown or unresolved defects or
32          issues related to functionality and performance.
33          The poll mode driver is also pre-release and will be updated to a released version post hardware and base driver release.
34          Should the official hardware release be made between DPDK releases an updated poll-mode driver will be made available.
35
36*   Link Bonding
37
38    *   Support for adaptive load balancing (mode 6) to the link bonding library.
39
40    *   Support for registration of link status change callbacks with link bonding devices.
41
42    *   Support for slaves devices which do not support link status change interrupts in the link bonding library via a link status polling mechanism.
43
44*   PCI Hotplug with NULL PMD sample application
45
46*   ABI versioning
47
48*   x32 ABI
49
50*   Non-EAL Thread Support
51
52*   Multi-pthread Support
53
54*   Re-order Library
55
56*   ACL for AVX2
57
58*   Architecture Independent CRC Hash
59
60*   uio_pci_generic Support
61
62*   KNI Optimizations
63
64*   Vhost-user support
65
66*   Virtio (link, vlan, mac, port IO, perf)
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68*   IXGBE-VF RSS
69
70*   RX/TX Callbacks
71
72*   Unified Flow Types
73
74*   Indirect Attached MBUF Flag
75
76*   Use default port configuration in TestPMD
77
78*   Tunnel offloading in TestPMD
79
80*   Poll Mode Driver - 40 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_i40e)
81
82    *   Support for Flow Director
83
84    *   Support for ethertype filter
85
86    *   Support RSS in VF
87
88    *   Support configuring redirection table with different size from 1GbE and 10 GbE
89
90       -   128/512 entries of 40GbE PF
91
92       -   64 entries of 40GbE VF
93
94    *   Support configuring hash functions
95
96    *   Support for VXLAN packet on Intel® 40GbE Controllers
97
98*   Poll Mode Driver for Mellanox ConnectX-3 EN adapters (mlx4)
99
100.. note:: This PMD is only available for Linux and is disabled by default
101          due to external dependencies (libibverbs and libmlx4). Please
102          refer to the NIC drivers guide for more information.
103
104*   Packet Distributor Sample Application
105
106*   Job Stats library and Sample Application.
107
108*   Enhanced Jenkins hash (jhash) library
109
110.. note:: The hash values returned by the new jhash library are different
111          from the ones returned by the previous library.
112