24. DPDK Release 1.8
24.1. 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