4. DPDK Release 20.11

4.1. New Features

Added write combining store APIs.

Added rte_write32_wc and rte_write32_wc_relaxed APIs that enable write combining stores (depending on architecture). The functions are provided as a generic stub and x86 specific implementation.
Added prefetch with intention to write APIs.

Added new prefetch function variants e.g. rte_prefetch0_write, which allow the programmer to prefetch a cache line and also indicate the intention to write.
Added the rte_cldemote API.

Added a hardware hint CLDEMOTE, which is similar to prefetch in reverse. CLDEMOTE moves the cache line to the more remote cache, where it expects sharing to be efficient. Moving the cache line to a level more distant from the processor helps to accelerate core-to-core communication. This API is specific to x86 and implemented as a stub for other architectures.
Added support for limiting maximum SIMD bitwidth.

Added a new EAL config setting max_simd_bitwidth to limit the vector path selection at runtime. This value can be set by apps using the rte_vect_set_max_simd_bitwidth function, or by the user with EAL flag --force-max-simd-bitwidth.
Added zero copy APIs for rte_ring.

For rings with producer/consumer in RTE_RING_SYNC_ST, RTE_RING_SYNC_MT_HTS modes, these APIs split enqueue/dequeue operation into three phases (enqueue/dequeue start, copy data to/from ring, enqueue/dequeue finish). Along with the advantages of the peek APIs, these provide the ability to copy the data to the ring memory directly without the need for temporary storage.
Updated CRC modules of the net library.
- Added runtime selection of the optimal architecture-specific CRC path.
- Added optimized implementations of CRC32-Ethernet and CRC16-CCITT using the AVX512 and VPCLMULQDQ instruction sets.
Introduced extended buffer description for receiving.

Added the extended Rx buffer description for Rx queue setup routine providing the individual settings for each Rx segment with maximal size, buffer offset and memory pool to allocate data buffers from.
Added the FEC API, for a generic FEC query and config.

Added the FEC API which provides functions for query FEC capabilities and current FEC mode from device. An API for configuring FEC mode is also provided.
Added thread safety to rte_flow functions.

Added the RTE_ETH_DEV_FLOW_OPS_THREAD_SAFE device flag to indicate whether a PMD supports thread safe operations. If the PMD doesn’t set the flag, the rte_flow API level functions will protect the flow operations with a mutex.
Added flow-based traffic sampling support.

Added a new action RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SAMPLE that will sample the incoming traffic and send a duplicated traffic with the specified ratio to the application, while the original packet will continue to the target destination.

The packets sampling is ‘1/ratio’. A ratio value set to 1 means that the packets will be completely mirrored. The sample packet can be assigned with a different set of actions than the original packet.
Added support of shared action in flow API.

Added shared action support to use single flow actions in multiple flow rules. An update to the shared action configuration alters the behavior of all flow rules using it.
- Added a new action: RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SHARED to use shared action as a flow action.
- Added new flow APIs to create/update/destroy/query shared actions.
Added support to flow rules to allow private PMD items/actions.
- Flow rule verification has been updated to accept private PMD items and actions.
Added a generic API to offload tunneled traffic and restore missed packets.
- Added a new hardware independent helper to the flow API that offloads tunneled traffic and restores missed packets.
Updated the ethdev library to support hairpin between two ports.

New APIs have been introduced to support binding / unbinding of 2 ports in a hairpin configuration. The hairpin Tx part flow rules can be inserted explicitly. A new API has been added to get the hairpin peer ports list.
Updated the Amazon ena driver.

Updated the ena PMD with new features and improvements, including:
- Added network interface metrics which can be read using xstats.
Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.

Updated the Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including:
- Added support for 200G PAM4 link speed.
- Added support for RSS hash level selection.
- Updated HWRM structures to 1.10.1.70 version.
- Added TRUFLOW support for Stingray devices.
- Added support for representors on MAIA cores of SR.
- Added support for VXLAN decap offload using rte_flow.
- Added support to indicate native rte_flow API thread safety.
Updated Cisco enic driver.
- Added support for VF representors with single-queue Tx/Rx and flow API
- Added support for egress PORT_ID action
- Added support for non-zero priorities for group 0 flows
- Added support for VXLAN decap combined with VLAN pop
Added hns3 FEC PMD, for supporting query and config FEC mode.

Added the FEC PMD which provides functions for querying FEC capabilities and current FEC mode from a device. A PMD for configuring FEC mode is also provided.
Updated the Intel iavf driver.

Updated the iavf PMD with new features and improvements, including:
- Added support for flexible descriptor metadata extraction.
- Added support for outer IP hash of GTPC and GTPU.
- Added support of AVX512 instructions in Rx and Tx path.
- Added support for up to 256 queue pairs per VF.
Updated Intel ixgbe driver.

Updated the Intel ixgbe driver to use write combining stores.
Updated Intel i40e driver.

Updated the Intel i40e driver to use write combining stores.
Updated Intel ice driver.
- Added support for write combining stores.
- Added ACL filter support for the Intel DCF.
Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.

Updated the Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
- Added vectorized Multi-Packet Rx Queue burst.
- Added support for 2 new miniCQE formats: Flow Tag and L3/L4 header.
- Added support for PMD level multiple-thread flow insertion.
- Added support for matching on fragmented/non-fragmented IPv4/IPv6 packets.
- Added support for QinQ packets matching.
- Added support for the new VLAN fields has_vlan in the Ethernet item and has_more_vlan in the VLAN item.
- Updated the supported timeout for Age action to the maximal value supported by the rte_flow API.
- Added support for Age action query.
- Added support for multi-ports hairpin.
- Allow unknown link speed.
Updated Mellanox mlx5 vDPA driver:
- Added support of vDPA VirtQ error handling.
Updated Solarflare network PMD.

Updated the Solarflare sfc_efx driver with changes including:
- Added SR-IOV PF support
- Added Alveo SN1000 SmartNICs (EF100 architecture) support including flow API transfer rules for switch HW offload
- Added ARMv8 support
- Claimed flow API native thread safety
Added Wangxun txgbe PMD.

Added a new PMD driver for Wangxun 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs.

See the TXGBE Poll Mode Driver for more details.
Updated Virtio driver.
- Added support for Vhost-vDPA backend to the Virtio-user PMD.
- Changed default link speed to unknown.
- Added support for the 200G link speed.
Updated Memif PMD.
- Added support for abstract socket addresses.
- Changed default socket address type to abstract.
Added UDP/IPv4 GRO support for VxLAN and non-VxLAN packets.

For VxLAN packets, added inner UDP/IPv4 support. For non-VxLAN packets, added UDP/IPv4 support.
Extended the flow-perf application.
- Added support for user order instead of bit mask. Now the user can create any structure of rte_flow using the flow performance application with any order. Moreover the app also now starts to support inner items matching as well.
- Added header modify actions.
- Added flag action.
- Added raw encap/decap actions.
- Added VXLAN encap/decap actions.
- Added ICMP (code/type/identifier/sequence number) and ICMP6 (code/type) matching items.
- Added option to set port mask for insertion/deletion: --portmask=N where N represents the hexadecimal bitmask of the ports used.
Added raw data-path APIs for cryptodev library.

Added raw data-path APIs to Cryptodev to help accelerate external libraries or applications which need to avail of fast cryptodev enqueue/dequeue operations but which do not necessarily need to depend on mbufs and cryptodev operation mempools.
Updated the aesni_mb crypto PMD.
- Added support for intel-ipsec-mb version 0.55.
- Added support for AES-ECB 128, 192 and 256.
- Added support for ZUC-EEA3/EIA3 algorithms.
- Added support for SNOW3G-UEA2/UIA2 algorithms.
- Added support for KASUMI-F8/F9 algorithms.
- Added support for Chacha20-Poly1305.
- Added support for AES-256 CCM algorithm.
Updated the aesni_gcm crypto PMD.
- Added SGL support for AES-GMAC.
Added Broadcom BCMFS symmetric crypto PMD.

Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Broadcom FlexSparc crypto units. See Broadcom FlexSparc Crypto Poll Mode Driver guide for more details on this new PMD.
Updated NXP DPAA2_SEC crypto PMD.
- Added DES-CBC support for cipher_only, chain and ipsec protocol.
- Added support for non-HMAC auth algorithms (MD5, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512).
Updated Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.
- Added AES-GCM support.
- Added cipher only offload support.
Updated Marvell OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.
- Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD lookaside protocol offload for IPsec with IPv6 support.
Updated Intel QAT PMD.
- Added Raw Data-path APIs support.
- Added support for write combining stores.
Added Intel ACC100 bbdev PMD.

Added a new acc100 bbdev driver for the Intel® ACC100 accelerator also known as Mount Bryce. See the Intel(R) ACC100 5G/4G FEC Poll Mode Driver BBDEV guide for more details on this new driver.
Updated rte_security library to support SDAP.

rte_security_pdcp_xform in rte_security lib is updated to enable 5G NR processing of SDAP headers in PMDs.
Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 regex PMD.

Added a new PMD driver for the hardware regex offload block for OCTEON TX2 SoC.

See the OCTEON TX2 REE Regexdev Driver for more details.
Updated Software Eventdev driver.

Added performance tuning arguments to allow tuning the scheduler for better throughput in high core count use cases.
Added a new driver for the Intel Dynamic Load Balancer v1.0 device.

Added the new dlb eventdev driver for the Intel DLB V1.0 device.
Added a new driver for the Intel Dynamic Load Balancer v2.0 device.

Added the new dlb2 eventdev driver for the Intel DLB V2.0 device. See the Driver for the Intel® Dynamic Load Balancer (DLB) eventdev guide for more details on this new driver.
Added Ice Lake (Gen4) support for Intel NTB.

Added NTB device support (4th generation) for the Intel Ice Lake platform.
Updated ioat rawdev driver.

The ioat rawdev driver has been updated and enhanced. Changes include:
- Added support for Intel® Data Streaming Accelerator hardware. For more information, see Introducing the Intel Data Streaming Accelerator (Intel DSA).
- Added support for the fill operation via the API rte_ioat_enqueue_fill(), where the hardware fills an area of memory with a repeating pattern.
- Added a per-device configuration flag to disable management of user-provided completion handles.
- Renamed the rte_ioat_do_copies() API to rte_ioat_perform_ops(), and renamed the rte_ioat_completed_copies() API to rte_ioat_completed_ops() to better reflect the APIs’ purposes, and remove the implication that they are limited to copy operations only. Note: The old API is still provided but marked as deprecated in the code.
- Added a new API rte_ioat_fence() to add a fence between operations. This API replaces the fence flag parameter in the rte_ioat_enqueue_copies() function, and is clearer as there is no ambiguity as to whether the flag should be set on the last operation before the fence or the first operation after it.
Updated the pipeline library for alignment with the P4 language.

Added a new Software Switch (SWX) pipeline type that provides more flexibility through APIs and feature alignment with the P4 language. Some enhancements are:
- The packet headers, meta-data, actions, tables and pipelines are dynamically defined instead of selected from a pre-defined set.
- The actions and the pipeline are defined with instructions.
- Extern objects and functions can be plugged into the pipeline.
- Transaction-oriented table updates.
Added new AVX512 specific classify algorithms for ACL library.
- Added new RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_AVX512X16 vector implementation, which can process up to 16 flows in parallel. Requires AVX512 support.
- Added new RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_AVX512X32 vector implementation, which can process up to 32 flows in parallel. Requires AVX512 support.
Added AVX512 lookup implementation for FIB.

Added a AVX512 lookup functions implementation into FIB and FIB6 libraries.
Added support to update subport bandwidth dynamically.
- Added new API rte_sched_port_subport_profile_add to add new subport bandwidth profiles to the subport profile table at runtime.
- Added support to update the subport rate dynamically.
Updated FIPS validation sample application.
- Added scatter gather support.
- Added NIST GCMVS complaint GMAC test method support.
Updated l3wfd-acl sample application.
- Added new optional parameter --eth-dest for the l3fwd-acl to allow the user to specify the destination mac address for each ethernet port used.
- Replaced --scalar command-line option with --alg=<value>, to allow the user to select the desired classify method.
Updated vhost sample application.

Added vhost asynchronous APIs support, which demonstrates how the application can leverage IOAT DMA channels with vhost asynchronous APIs. See the Vhost Sample Application for more details.

4.2. Removed Items

build: Support for the Make build system has been removed from DPDK. Meson is now the primary build system. Sample applications can still be built with Make standalone, using pkg-config.
vhost: Dequeue zero-copy support has been removed.
kernel: The module igb_uio has been moved to the git repository dpdk-kmods in a new directory linux/igb_uio.
Removed Python 2 support since it was sunsetted in January 2020. See Sunsetting Python 2
Removed TEP termination sample application.
Removed the deprecated dpdk-setup.sh script.

4.3. API Changes

build macros: The macros defining RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_* have been removed. The information provided by these macros is now available through standard compiler macros.
eal: Replaced the function rte_get_master_lcore() with rte_get_main_lcore(). The old function is deprecated.

The iterator for worker lcores is also changed: RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE is replaced with RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_WORKER.
eal: The definitions related to including and excluding devices have been changed from blacklist/whitelist to block/allow list. There are compatibility macros and command line mapping to accept the old values but applications and scripts are strongly encouraged to migrate to the new names.
eal: The rte_logs struct and global symbol was made private and is no longer part of the API.
eal: Made the rte_dev_event structure private to the EAL as no public API used it.
eal: rte_cio_rmb() and rte_cio_wmb() were deprecated since 20.08 and are removed in this release.
mem: Removed the unioned field phys_addr from the structures rte_memseg and rte_memzone. The field iova remains from the old unions.
mempool: Removed the unioned fields phys_addr and physaddr from the structures rte_mempool_memhdr and rte_mempool_objhdr. The field iova remains from the old unions. The flag name MEMPOOL_F_NO_PHYS_CONTIG is removed, while the aliased flag MEMPOOL_F_NO_IOVA_CONTIG is kept.
mbuf: Removed the functions rte_mbuf_data_dma_addr* and the macros rte_pktmbuf_mtophys*. The same functionality is still available with the functions and macros having iova in their names instead of dma_addr or mtophys.
mbuf: Removed the unioned field buf_physaddr from rte_mbuf. The field buf_iova remains from the old union.
mbuf: Removed the unioned field refcnt_atomic from the structures rte_mbuf and rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info. The field refcnt remains from the old unions.
mbuf: Removed the unioned fields userdata and udata64 from the structure rte_mbuf. It is replaced with dynamic fields.
mbuf: Removed the field seqn from the structure rte_mbuf. It is replaced with dynamic fields.
mbuf: Removed the field timestamp from the structure rte_mbuf. It is replaced with the dynamic field RTE_MBUF_DYNFIELD_TIMESTAMP_NAME which was previously used only for Tx.
pci: Removed the rte_kernel_driver enum defined in rte_dev.h and replaced with a private enum in the PCI subsystem.
pci: Removed the PCI resources map API from the public API (pci_map_resource and pci_unmap_resource) and moved it to the PCI bus driver along with the PCI resources lists and associated structures (pci_map, pci_msix_table, mapped_pci_resource and mapped_pci_res_list).
ethdev: Removed the kdrv field in the ethdev rte_eth_dev_data structure as it gave no useful abstracted information to the applications.
ethdev: rte_eth_rx_descriptor_done() API has been deprecated.
ethdev: Renamed basic statistics per queue. An underscore is inserted between the queue number and the rest of the xstat name:
- rx_qN* -> rx_qN_*
- tx_qN* -> tx_qN_*
ethdev: Added capability to query age flow action.
ethdev: Changed rte_eth_dev_stop return value from void to int to provide a way to report various error conditions.
ethdev: Added int return type to rte_eth_dev_close().
ethdev: Renamed internal functions:
- _rte_eth_dev_callback_process() -> rte_eth_dev_callback_process()
- _rte_eth_dev_reset -> rte_eth_dev_internal_reset()
ethdev: Modified field type of base and nb_queue in struct rte_eth_dcb_tc_queue_mapping from uint8_t to uint16_t. As the data of uint8_t will be truncated when queue number in a TC is greater than 256.
ethdev: Removed the legacy filter API, including rte_eth_dev_filter_supported() and rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl().
ethdev: Removed the legacy L2 tunnel configuration API, including rte_eth_dev_l2_tunnel_eth_type_conf() and rte_eth_dev_l2_tunnel_offload_set()..
vhost: Moved vDPA APIs from experimental to stable.
vhost: Add a new function rte_vhost_crypto_driver_start to be called instead of rte_vhost_driver_start by crypto applications.
cryptodev: The structure rte_crypto_sym_vec is updated to support both cpu_crypto synchronous operations and asynchronous raw data-path APIs.
cryptodev: RTE_CRYPTO_AEAD_LIST_END from enum rte_crypto_aead_algorithm, RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_LIST_END from enum rte_crypto_cipher_algorithm and RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_LIST_END from enum rte_crypto_auth_algorithm are removed to avoid future ABI breakage while adding new algorithms.
scheduler: Renamed functions rte_cryptodev_scheduler_slave_attach, rte_cryptodev_scheduler_slave_detach and rte_cryptodev_scheduler_slaves_get to rte_cryptodev_scheduler_worker_attach, rte_cryptodev_scheduler_worker_detach and rte_cryptodev_scheduler_workers_get accordingly.
scheduler: Renamed the configuration value RTE_CRYPTODEV_SCHEDULER_MAX_NB_SLAVES to RTE_CRYPTODEV_SCHEDULER_MAX_NB_WORKERS.
security: The hfn_ovrd field in rte_security_pdcp_xform is changed from uint32_t to uint8_t so that a new field sdap_enabled can be added to support SDAP.
security: The API rte_security_session_create is updated to take two mempool objects: one for session and other for session private data. So the application need to create two mempools and get the size of session private data using API rte_security_session_get_size for private session mempool.
ipsec: RTE_SATP_LOG2_NUM has been dropped from enum and subsequently moved rte_ipsec lib from experimental to stable.
baseband/fpga_lte_fec: Renamed function fpga_lte_fec_configure to rte_fpga_lte_fec_configure and structure fpga_lte_fec_conf to rte_fpga_lte_fec_conf.
baseband/fpga_5gnr_fec: Renamed function fpga_5gnr_fec_configure to rte_fpga_5gnr_fec_configure and structure fpga_5gnr_fec_conf to rte_fpga_5gnr_fec_conf.
rawdev: Added a structure size parameter to the functions rte_rawdev_queue_setup(), rte_rawdev_queue_conf_get(), rte_rawdev_info_get() and rte_rawdev_configure(), allowing limited driver type-checking and ABI compatibility.
rawdev: Changed the return type of the function rte_dev_info_get() and the function rte_rawdev_queue_conf_get() from void to int allowing the return of error codes from drivers.
rawdev: The running of a drivers selftest() function can now be done using the rawdev_autotest command in the dpdk-test binary. This command now calls the self-test function for each rawdev found on the system, and does not require a specific command per device type. Following this change, the ioat_rawdev_autotest command has been removed as no longer needed.
raw/ioat: As noted above, the rte_ioat_do_copies() and rte_ioat_completed_copies() functions have been renamed to rte_ioat_perform_ops() and rte_ioat_completed_ops() respectively.
stack: the experimental tag has been dropped from the stack library, and its interfaces are considered stable as of DPDK 20.11.
bpf: RTE_BPF_XTYPE_NUM has been dropped from rte_bpf_xtype.
gso: Changed rte_gso_segment behaviour and return value:
- pkt is not saved to pkts_out[0] if not GSOed.
- Return 0 instead of 1 for the above case.
- pkt is not freed, no matter whether it is GSOed, leaving to the caller.
acl: RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_NUM enum value has been removed. This enum value was not used inside DPDK, while it prevented the addition of new classify algorithms without causing an ABI breakage.
sched: Added subport_profile_id as an argument to function rte_sched_subport_config.
sched: Removed tb_rate, tc_rate, tc_period and tb_size from struct rte_sched_subport_params.

4.4. ABI Changes

eal: Removed the unimplemented function rte_dump_registers().
ethdev changes
- The following device operation function pointers moved from struct eth_dev_ops to struct rte_eth_dev:
  - eth_rx_queue_count_t rx_queue_count;
  - eth_rx_descriptor_done_t rx_descriptor_done;
  - eth_rx_descriptor_status_t rx_descriptor_status;
  - eth_tx_descriptor_status_t tx_descriptor_status;
- struct eth_dev_ops is no longer accessible by applications, which was already an internal data structure.
- ethdev internal functions are marked with __rte_internal tag.
- Added extensions’ attributes to struct rte_flow_item_ipv6. A set of additional values added to struct, indicating the existence of every defined extension header type. Applications should use the new values for identification of existing extensions in the packet header.
- Added fields rx_seg and rx_nseg to rte_eth_rxconf structure to provide extended description of the receiving buffer.
- struct rte_eth_hairpin_conf has two new members:
  - uint32_t tx_explicit:1;
  - uint32_t manual_bind:1;
- Added new field has_vlan to structure rte_flow_item_eth, indicating that packet header contains at least one VLAN.
- Added new field has_more_vlan to the structure rte_flow_item_vlan, indicating that packet header contains at least one more VLAN, after this VLAN.
eventdev: The following structures are modified to support DLB/DLB2 PMDs and future extensions:
- rte_event_dev_info
- rte_event_dev_config
- rte_event_port_conf
sched: Added new fields to struct rte_sched_subport_port_params.
lpm: Removed fields other than tbl24 and tbl8 from the struct rte_lpm. The removed fields were made internal.

4.5. Tested Platforms

Intel® platforms with Intel® NICs combinations
- CPU
  - Intel® Atom™ CPU C3758 @ 2.20GHz
  - Intel® Atom™ CPU C3858 @ 2.00GHz
  - Intel® Atom™ CPU C3958 @ 2.00GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU D-1541 @ 2.10GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU D-1553N @ 2.30GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2680 0 @ 2.70GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Gold 5218N CPU @ 2.30GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Gold 6139 CPU @ 2.30GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Gold 6252N CPU @ 2.30GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8180 CPU @ 2.50GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8280M CPU @ 2.70GHz
- OS:
  - CentOS 8.2
  - Fedora 33
  - FreeBSD 12.1
  - OpenWRT 19.07.3
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 8.2
  - Suse 15 SP1
  - Ubuntu 18.04
  - Ubuntu 20.04
  - Ubuntu 20.10
- NICs:
  - Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-C for SFP (4x25G）
    - Firmware version: 2.30 0x80004dcf 1.2839.0
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1593 / 8086:1889
    - Driver version: 1.3.0 (ice)
    - OS Default DDP: 1.3.20.0
    - COMMS DDP: 1.3.24.0
  - Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-C for QSFP (2x100G）
    - Firmware version: 2.30 0x80004dd0 1.2839.0
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1592 / 8086:1889
    - Driver version: 1.3.0 (ice)
    - OS Default DDP: 1.3.20.0
    - COMMS DDP: 1.3.24.0
  - Intel® 82599ES 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
    - Firmware version: 0x61bf0001
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:10fb / 8086:10ed
    - Driver version: 5.7.1 (ixgbe)
  - Intel® Corporation Ethernet Connection X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T
    - Firmware version: 0x800003e7
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:15ad / 8086:15a8
    - Driver version: 5.1.0-k (ixgbe)
  - Intel® Corporation Ethernet Controller 10G X550T
    - Firmware version: 0x80000482
    - Device id (pf): 8086:1563
    - Driver version: 5.7.1 (ixgbe)
  - Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA4 (4x10G)
    - Firmware version: 8.00 0x80008b82 1.2766.0
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1572 / 8086:154c
    - Driver version: 2.13.10 (i40e)
  - Intel® Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GbE SFP+ (4x10G)
    - Firmware version: 5.00 0x800023c3 1.2766.0
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:37d0 / 8086:37cd
    - Driver version: 2.13.10 (i40e)
  - Intel® Corporation Ethernet Connection X722 for 10GBASE-T (2x10G)
    - Firmware version: 4.10 0x80001a7a
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:37d2 / 8086:37cd
    - Driver version: 2.13.10 (i40e)
  - Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (2x25G)
    - Firmware version: 8.00 0x80008c1a 1.2766.0
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:158b / 8086:154c
    - Driver version: 2.13.10 (i40e)
  - Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710-QDA2 (2X40G)
    - Firmware version: 8.00 0x80008b82 1.2766.0
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1583 / 8086:154c
    - Driver version: 2.13.10 (i40e)
  - Intel® Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection
    - Firmware version: 1.63, 0x80000cbc
    - Device id (pf/vf): 8086:1521 / 8086:1520
    - Driver version: 5.4.0-k (igb)
  - Intel® Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection
    - Firmware version: 3.25, 0x800006eb
    - Device id (pf): 8086:1533
    - Driver version: 5.4.0-k (igb)
  - Intel® Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2
    - Firmware version: 0x800005f9
    - Device id (pf): 8086:1528
    - Driver version: 5.1.0-k (ixgbe)
  - Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-T2L
    - Firmware version: 8.00 0x80008d10 1.2766.0
    - Device id (pf): 8086:15ff
    - Driver version: 2.13.10 (i40e)
Intel® platforms with Mellanox® NICs combinations
- CPU:
  - Intel® Xeon® Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2697A v4 @ 2.60GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2640 @ 2.50GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz
- OS:
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.2 (Ootpa)
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.8 (Maipo)
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo)
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo)
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)
  - Ubuntu 20.04
  - Ubuntu 18.04
  - Ubuntu 16.04
  - SUSE Enterprise Linux 15 SP2
  - SUSE Enterprise Linux 12 SP4
- OFED:
  - MLNX_OFED 5.2-0.3.3.0 and above
  - MLNX_OFED 5.1-2.5.8.0
- upstream kernel:
  - Linux 5.10.0-rc2 and above
- rdma-core:
  - rdma-core-31.0-1 and above
- NICs:
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-3 Pro 40G MCX354A-FCC_Ax (2x40G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
    - Device ID: 15b3:1007
    - Firmware version: 2.42.5000
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-3 Pro 40G MCX354A-FCCT (2x40G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
    - Device ID: 15b3:1007
    - Firmware version: 2.42.5000
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-4 Lx 25G MCX4121A-ACAT (2x25G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
    - Device ID: 15b3:1015
    - Firmware version: 14.29.0476 and above
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-4 Lx 50G MCX4131A-GCAT (1x50G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
    - Device ID: 15b3:1015
    - Firmware version: 14.29.0476 and above
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-5 100G MCX516A-CCAT (2x100G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
    - Device ID: 15b3:1017
    - Firmware version: 16.29.0476 and above
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-5 100G MCX556A-ECAT (2x100G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
    - Device ID: 15b3:1017
    - Firmware version: 16.29.0476 and above
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-5 100G MCX556A-EDAT (2x100G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
    - Device ID: 15b3:1017
    - Firmware version: 16.29.0476 and above
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-5 Ex EN 100G MCX516A-CDAT (2x100G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
    - Device ID: 15b3:1019
    - Firmware version: 16.29.0476 and above
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-6 Dx EN 100G MCX623106AN-CDAT (2x100G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
    - Device ID: 15b3:101d
    - Firmware version: 22.29.0476 and above
  - Mellanox® ConnectX®-6 Lx EN 25G MCX631102AN-ADAT (2x25G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x8
    - Device ID: 15b3:101f
    - Firmware version: 26.29.0470 and above
Mellanox® BlueField® SmartNIC
- Mellanox® BlueField® 2 SmartNIC MT41686 - MBF2H332A-AEEOT (2x25G)
  - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
  - Device ID: 15b3:a2d2
  - Firmware version: 24.29.0476 and above
- Embedded software:
  - CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (AltArch)
  - MLNX_OFED 5.2-0.3.2 and above
  - DPDK application running on Arm cores
Intel® platforms with Broadcom® NICs combinations
- CPU:
  - Intel® Xeon® Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2667 v3 @ 3.20GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Gold 6142 CPU @ 2.60GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Silver 4110 CPU @ 2.10GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® CPU E3-1270 v3 @ 3.50GHz
  - Intel® Xeon® Gold 6134M CPU @ 3.20GHz
- OS:
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 8.1
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5
  - Ubuntu 16.04
  - Centos 8.1
  - Centos 7.8
  - Centos 7.7
- upstream kernel:
  - Linux 5.3.4
- NICs:
  - Broadcom® NetXtreme-E® Series P225p (2x25G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
    - Firmware version: 214.4.114.0 and above
  - Broadcom® NetXtreme-E® Series P425p (4x25G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
    - Firmware version: 216.4.259.0 and above
  - Broadcom® NetXtreme-E® Series P2100G (2x100G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
    - Firmware version: 216.1.259.0 and above
  - Broadcom® NetXtreme-E® Series P425p (4x25G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
    - Firmware version: 216.1.259.0 and above
  - Broadcom® NetXtreme-E® Series P2100G (2x100G)
    - Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
    - Firmware version: 216.1.259.0 and above
Broadcom® NetXtreme-S® Series SmartNIC
- Broadcom® NetXtreme-S® Series PS225-H16 SmartNIC (2x25G)
  - Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
  - Firmware version: 217.0.59.0, 218.1.63.0
- Embedded software:
  - Broadcom Yocto Linux
  - Kernel version: 4.14.174
  - DPDK application running on 8 Arm Cortex-A72 cores