2. New Features

• Poll-mode driver support for an early release of the PCIE host interface of the Intel(R) Ethernet Switch FM10000.
  • Basic Rx/Tx functions for PF/VF
  • Interrupt handling support for PF/VF
  • Per queue start/stop functions for PF/VF
  • Support Mailbox handling between PF/VF and PF/Switch Manager
  • Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for PF/VF
  • Scatter receive function for PF/VF
  • Reta update/query for PF/VF
  • VLAN filter set for PF
  • Link status query for PF/VF

Note

The software is intended to run on pre-release hardware and may contain unknown or unresolved defects or issues related to functionality and performance. The poll mode driver is also pre-release and will be updated to a released version post hardware and base driver release. Should the official hardware release be made between DPDK releases an updated poll-mode driver will be made available.

• Link Bonding

  • Support for adaptive load balancing (mode 6) 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.

• PCI Hotplug with NULL PMD sample application

• ABI versioning

• x32 ABI

• Non-EAL Thread Support

• Multi-pthread Support

• Re-order Library

• ACL for AVX2

• Architecture Independent CRC Hash

• uio_pci_generic Support

• KNI Optimizations

• Vhost-user support

• Virtio (link, vlan, mac, port IO, perf)

• IXGBE-VF RSS

• RX/TX Callbacks

• Unified Flow Types

• Indirect Attached MBUF Flag

• Use default port configuration in TestPMD

• Tunnel offloading in TestPMD

• 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

• Job Stats library and Sample Application.

For further features supported in this release, see Chapter 3 Supported Features.