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.

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