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New cn98xx SOC comes up with two NIX blocks wrt cn96xx, cn93xx, to achieve higher performance. Also the no of cores increased to 36 from 24. Adding support for cn98xx where need a logic to detect if the LF is attached to NIX0 or NIX1 and then accordingly use the respective NIX block. Signed-off-by: Harman Kalra <hkalra@marvell.com> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
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Copyright 2020 The DPDK contributors
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.. include:: <isonum.txt>
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DPDK Release 20.08
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.. **Read this first.**
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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_20_08.html
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New Features
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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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* **Updated PCAP driver.**
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Updated PCAP driver with new features and improvements, including:
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* Support software Tx nanosecond timestamps precision.
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* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
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Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
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* Added new PMD devarg ``reclaim_mem_mode``.
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* **Added vDPA device APIs to query virtio queue statistics.**
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A new 3 APIs has been added to query virtio queue statistics, to get their
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names and to reset them by a vDPA device.
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* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver.**
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Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver with new features, including:
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* Added support for virtio queue statistics.
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* Added support for MTU update.
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* **Updated Marvell octeontx2 ethdev PMD.**
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Updated Marvell octeontx2 driver with cn98xx support.
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* **Added support for BPF_ABS/BPF_IND load instructions.**
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Added support for two BPF non-generic instructions:
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``(BPF_ABS | <size> | BPF_LD)`` and ``(BPF_IND | <size> | BPF_LD)``
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which are used to access packet data in a safe manner. Currently JIT support
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for these instructions is implemented for x86 only.
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* **Added flow performance test application.**
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Added new application to test ``rte_flow`` performance, including:
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* Measure ``rte_flow`` insertion rate.
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* Measure ``rte_flow`` deletion rate.
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* Dump ``rte_flow`` memory consumption.
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* Measure packet per second forwarding.
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* Removed ``RTE_KDRV_NONE`` based PCI device driver probing.
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API Changes
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* ``rte_page_sizes`` enumeration is replaced with ``RTE_PGSIZE_xxx`` defines.
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ABI Changes
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* No ABI change that would break compatibility with 19.11.
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Known Issues
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Tested Platforms
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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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