Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] doc: update mlx PMD release notes

[Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 02:31:11PM +0200, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>

With one minor nit, rdma-core plug-in compilation hasn't been accepted
yet. Assuming it will:

Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>

> ---
> 
> On v3:
>  - No change.
> 
> On v2:
>  - No change.
> 
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
> index 689080bed..714a24388 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_02.rst
> @@ -50,6 +50,33 @@ New Features
>    exiting. Not calling this function could result in leaking hugepages, leading
>    to failure during initialization of secondary processes.
>  
> +* **Updated mlx5 driver.**
> +
> +  Updated the mlx5 driver including the following changes:
> +
> +  * Enabled compilation as a plugin, thus removed the mandatory dependency with rdma-core.
> +    With the special compilation, the rdma-core libraries will be loaded only in case
> +    Mellanox device is being used. For binaries creation the PMD can be enabled, still not
> +    requiring from every end user to install rdma-core.
> +  * Improved multi-segment packet performance.
> +  * Changed driver name to use the PCI address to be compatible with OVS-DPDK APIs.
> +  * Extended statistics for physical port packet/byte counters.
> +  * Supported IPv4 time-to-live filter.
> +  * Converted to the new offloads API.
> +  * Supported device removal check operation.
> +
> +* **Updated mlx4 driver.**
> +
> +  Updated the mlx4 driver including the following changes:
> +
> +  * Enabled compilation as a plugin, thus removed the mandatory dependency with rdma-core.
> +    With the special compilation, the rdma-core libraries will be loaded only in case
> +    Mellanox device is being used. For binaries creation the PMD can be enabled, still not
> +    requiring from every end user to install rdma-core.
> +  * Improved data path performance.
> +  * Converted to the new offloads API.
> +  * Supported device removal check operation.
> +
>  * **Added the ixgbe ethernet driver to support RSS with flow API.**
>  
>    Rte_flow actually defined to include RSS, but till now, RSS is out of
> -- 
> 2.12.0
> 

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Adrien Mazarguil
6WIND