20. DPDK Release 1.8

20.1. 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