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3. Supported Features

  • Packet Distributor library for dynamic, single-packet at a time, load balancing

  • IP fragmentation and reassembly library

  • Support for IPv6 in IP fragmentation and reassembly sample applications

  • Support for VFIO for mapping BARs and setting up interrupts

  • Link Bonding PMD Library supporting round-robin, active backup, balance(layer 2, layer 2+3, and layer 3+4), broadcast bonding modes 802.3ad link aggregation (mode 4), transmit load balancing (mode 5) and adaptive load balancing (mode 6)

  • Support zero copy mode RX/TX in user space vhost sample

  • Support multiple queues in virtio-net PMD

  • Support for Intel 40GbE Controllers:

    • Intel® XL710 40 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
    • Intel® X710 40 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

  • Support NIC filters in addition to flow director for Intel® 1GbE and 10GbE Controllers

  • Virtualization (KVM)

    • Userspace vhost switch:

      New sample application to support userspace virtio back-end in host and packet switching between guests.

  • Virtualization (Xen)

    • Support for DPDK application running on Xen Domain0 without hugepages.

    • Para-virtualization

      Support front-end Poll Mode Driver in guest domain

      Support userspace packet switching back-end example in host domain

  • FreeBSD* 9.2 support for librte_pmd_e1000, librte_pmd_ixgbe and Virtual Function variants. Please refer to the DPDK for FreeBSD* Getting Started Guide. Application support has been added for the following:

    • multiprocess/symmetric_mp
    • multiprocess/simple_mp
    • l2fwd
    • l3fwd

  • Support for sharing data over QEMU IVSHMEM

  • Support for Intel® Communications Chipset 8925 to 8955 Series in the DPDK-QAT Sample Application

  • New VMXNET3 driver for the paravirtual device presented to a VM by the VMware* ESXi Hypervisor.

  • BETA: example support for basic Netmap applications on DPDK

  • Support for the wireless KASUMI algorithm in the dpdk_qat sample application

  • Hierarchical scheduler implementing 5-level scheduling hierarchy (port, sub-port, pipe, traffic class, queue) with 64K leaf nodes (packet queues).

  • Packet dropper based on Random Early Detection (RED) congestion control mechanism.

  • Traffic Metering based on Single Rate Three Color Marker (srTCM) and Two Rate Three Color Marker (trTCM).

  • An API for configuring RSS redirection table on the fly

  • An API to support KNI in a multi-process environment

  • IPv6 LPM forwarding

  • Power management library and sample application using CPU frequency scaling

  • IPv4 reassembly sample application

  • Quota & Watermarks sample application

  • PCIe Multi-BAR Mapping Support

  • Support for Physical Functions in Poll Mode Driver for the following devices:

    • Intel® 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
    • Intel® i350 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
    • Intel® 82599 10-Gigabit Ethernet Controller
    • Intel® XL710/X710 40-Gigabit Ethernet Controller

  • Quality of Service (QoS) Hierarchical Scheduler: Sub-port Traffic Class Oversubscription

  • Multi-thread Kernel NIC Interface (KNI) for performance improvement

  • Virtualization (KVM)

    • Para-virtualization

      Support virtio front-end poll mode driver in guest virtual machine Support vHost raw socket interface as virtio back-end via KNI

    • SR-IOV Switching for the 10G Ethernet Controller

      Support Physical Function to start/stop Virtual Function Traffic

      Support Traffic Mirroring (Pool, VLAN, Uplink and Downlink)

      Support VF multiple MAC addresses (Exact/Hash match), VLAN filtering

      Support VF receive mode configuration

  • Support VMDq for 1 GbE and 10 GbE NICs

  • Extension for the Quality of Service (QoS) sample application to allow statistics polling

  • New libpcap -based poll-mode driver, including support for reading from 3rd Party NICs using Linux kernel drivers

  • New multi-process example using fork() to demonstrate application resiliency and recovery, including reattachment to and re-initialization of shared data structures where necessary

  • New example (vmdq) to demonstrate VLAN-based packet filtering

  • Improved scalability for scheduling large numbers of timers using the rte_timer library

  • Support for building the DPDK as a shared library

  • Support for Intel® Ethernet Server Bypass Adapter X520-SR2

  • Poll Mode Driver support for the Intel® Ethernet Connection I354 on the Intel® Atom™ Processor C2000 Product Family SoCs

  • IPv6 exact match flow classification in the l3fwd sample application

  • Support for multiple instances of the Intel® DPDK

  • Support for Intel® 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller - Intel® Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter (previously code named “Hartwell”)

  • Support for Intel® Ethernet Controller I210 (previously code named “Springville”)

  • Early access support for the Quad-port Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-4 and X520-DA2 (code named “Spring Fountain”)

  • Support for Intel® X710/XL710 40 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (code named “Fortville”)

  • Core components:

    • rte_mempool: allocator for fixed-sized objects
    • rte_ring: single- or multi- consumer/producer queue implementation
    • rte_timer: implementation of timers
    • rte_malloc: malloc-like allocator
    • rte_mbuf: network packet buffers, including fragmented buffers
    • rte_hash: support for exact-match flow classification in software
    • rte_lpm: support for longest prefix match in software for IPv4 and IPv6
    • rte_sched: support for QoS scheduling
    • rte_meter: support for QoS traffic metering
    • rte_power: support for power management
    • rte_ip_frag: support for IP fragmentation and reassembly

  • Poll Mode Driver - Common (rte_ether)

    • VLAN support
    • Support for Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
    • IEEE1588
    • Buffer chaining; Jumbo frames
    • TX checksum calculation
    • Configuration of promiscuous mode, and multicast packet receive filtering
    • L2 Mac address filtering
    • Statistics recording

  • IGB Poll Mode Driver - 1 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_e1000)

    • Support for Intel® 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (previously code named “Kawela”)
    • Support for Intel® 82580 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (previously code named “Barton Hills”)
    • Support for Intel® I350 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (previously code named “Powerville”)
    • Support for Intel® 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller - Intel® Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter (previously code named “Hartwell”)
    • Support for Intel® Ethernet Controller I210 (previously code named “Springville”)
    • Support for L2 Ethertype filters, SYN filters, 2-tuple filters and Flex filters for 82580 and i350
    • Support for L2 Ethertype filters, SYN filters and L3/L4 5-tuple filters for 82576

  • Poll Mode Driver - 10 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_ixgbe)

    • Support for Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (previously code named “Niantic”)
    • Support for Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-T2 (previously code named “Iron Pond”)
    • Support for Intel® Ethernet Controller X540-T2 (previously code named “Twin Pond”)
    • Support for Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) and Data Center Bridging (DCB) to divide incoming traffic into 128 RX queues. DCB is also supported for transmitting packets.
    • Support for auto negotiation down to 1 Gb
    • Support for Flow Director
    • Support for L2 Ethertype filters, SYN filters and L3/L4 5-tuple filters for 82599EB

  • Poll Mode Driver - 40 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_i40e)

    • Support for Intel® XL710 40 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
    • Support for Intel® X710 40 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

  • Environment Abstraction Layer (librte_eal)

    • Multi-process support
    • Multi-thread support
    • 1 GB and 2 MB page support
    • Atomic integer operations
    • Querying CPU support of specific features
    • High Precision Event Timer support (HPET)
    • PCI device enumeration and blacklisting
    • Spin locks and R/W locks

  • Test PMD application

    • Support for PMD driver testing

  • Test application

    • Support for core component tests

  • Sample applications

    • Command Line
    • Exception Path (into Linux* for packets using the Linux TUN/TAP driver)
    • Hello World
    • Integration with Intel® Quick Assist Technology drivers 1.0.0, 1.0.1 and 1.1.0 on Intel® Communications Chipset 89xx Series C0 and C1 silicon.
    • Link Status Interrupt (Ethernet* Link Status Detection
    • IPv4 Fragmentation
    • IPv4 Multicast
    • IPv4 Reassembly
    • L2 Forwarding (supports virtualized and non-virtualized environments)
    • L2 Forwarding Job Stats
    • L3 Forwarding (IPv4 and IPv6)
    • L3 Forwarding in a Virtualized Environment
    • L3 Forwarding with Power Management
    • Bonding mode 6
    • QoS Scheduling
    • QoS Metering + Dropper
    • Quota & Watermarks
    • Load Balancing
    • Multi-process
    • Timer
    • VMDQ and DCB L2 Forwarding
    • Kernel NIC Interface (with ethtool support)
    • Userspace vhost switch

  • Interactive command line interface (rte_cmdline)

  • Updated 10 GbE Poll Mode Driver (PMD) to the latest BSD code base providing support of newer ixgbe 10 GbE devices such as the Intel® X520-T2 server Ethernet adapter

  • An API for configuring Ethernet flow control

  • Support for interrupt-based Ethernet link status change detection

  • Support for SR-IOV functions on the Intel® 82599, Intel® 82576 and Intel® i350 Ethernet Controllers in a virtualized environment

  • Improvements to SR-IOV switch configurability on the Intel® 82599 Ethernet Controllers in a virtualized environment.

  • An API for L2 Ethernet Address “whitelist” filtering

  • An API for resetting statistics counters

  • Support for RX L4 (UDP/TCP/SCTP) checksum validation by NIC

  • Support for TX L3 (IPv4/IPv6) and L4 (UDP/TCP/SCTP) checksum calculation offloading

  • Support for IPv4 packet fragmentation and reassembly

  • Support for zero-copy Multicast

  • New APIs to allow the “blacklisting” of specific NIC ports.

  • Header files for common protocols (IP, SCTP, TCP, UDP)

  • Improved multi-process application support, allowing multiple co-operating DPDK processes to access the NIC port queues directly.

  • CPU-specific compiler optimization

  • Job stats library for load/cpu utilization measurements

  • Improvements to the Load Balancing sample application

  • The addition of a PAUSE instruction to tight loops for energy-usage and performance improvements

  • Updated 10 GbE Transmit architecture incorporating new upstream PCIe* optimizations.

  • IPv6 support:

    • Support in Flow Director Signature Filters and masks
    • RSS support in sample application that use RSS
    • Exact match flow classification in the L3 Forwarding sample application
    • Support in LPM for IPv6 addresses

  • Tunneling packet support:

    • Provide the APIs for VXLAN destination UDP port and VXLAN packet filter configuration and support VXLAN TX checksum offload on Intel® 40GbE Controllers.

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