12. DPDK Release 1.8
12.1. New Features
Link Bonding
- Support for 802.3ad link aggregation (mode 4) and transmit load balancing (mode 5) to the link bonding library.
- Support for registration of link status change callbacks with link bonding devices.
- Support for slaves devices which do not support link status change interrupts in the link bonding library via a link status polling mechanism.
Poll Mode Driver - 40 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_i40e)
- Support for Flow Director
- Support for ethertype filter
- Support RSS in VF
- Support configuring redirection table with different size from 1GbE and 10 GbE
- 128/512 entries of 40GbE PF
- 64 entries of 40GbE VF
- Support configuring hash functions
- Support for VXLAN packet on Intel 40GbE Controllers
Packet Distributor Sample Application