From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mohammad Abdul Awal Subject: [PATCH 2/2] doc: add vxlan and nvgre tunnel update in release notes Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 17:08:45 +0100 Message-ID: <20180528160845.18784-2-mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com> References: <20180528160845.18784-1-mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com> Cc: Mohammad Abdul Awal To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF4F72C54 for ; Mon, 28 May 2018 18:09:03 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20180528160845.18784-1-mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Change-Id: Ibcb8d2343db7f3ac8346dd2ac73ff93e026e0431 Signed-off-by: Mohammad Abdul Awal --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst index 511d51908..37d102572 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst @@ -323,6 +323,15 @@ New Features spawned on an as needed basis through configuration parameters passed to the driver of the underlying device using devargs. +* **Added support for VXLAN and NVGRE tunnel endpoint.** + + New actions types have been added to support encapsulation and decapsulation + operations for a tunnel endpoint. The new action types are + RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_[VXLAN/NVGRE]_ENCAP, RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_[VXLAN/NVGRE]_DECAP, + RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_JUMP. New item type RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_MARK has been + added to match a flow against a previously marked flow. It also introduced shared + counter to flow API to counte for a group of flows. + API Changes ----------- @@ -457,6 +466,14 @@ API Changes redirect matching traffic to a specific physical port. * PORT_ID pattern item and actions were added to match and target DPDK port IDs at a higher level than PHY_PORT. + * RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_[VXLAN/NVGRE]_ENCAP action items were added to support + tunnel encapsulation operation for VXLAN and NVGRE type tunnel endpoint. + * RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_[VXLAN/NVGRE]_DECAP action items were added to support + tunnel decapsulation operation for VXLAN and NVGRE type tunnel endpoint. + * RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_JUMP action item was added to support a matched flow + to be redirected to the specific group. + * RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_MARK item type has been added to match a flow against + a previously marked flow. * ethdev: change flow APIs regarding count action: * ``rte_flow_create()`` API count action now requires the ``struct rte_flow_action_count``. -- 2.17.0