1. DPDK Release 20.11
1.1. New Features
Added write combining store APIs.
Added
rte_write32_wc
andrte_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 therte_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 andhas_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
inrte_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. See the Driver for the Intel® Dynamic Load Balancer (DLB) eventdev guide for more details on this new driver.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 (DLB2) 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 torte_ioat_perform_ops()
, and renamed therte_ioat_completed_copies()
API torte_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 thefence
flag parameter in therte_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 thel3fwd-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.
1.2. 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 directorylinux/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.
1.3. 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()
withrte_get_main_lcore()
. The old function is deprecated.The iterator for worker lcores is also changed:
RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE
is replaced withRTE_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()
andrte_cio_wmb()
were deprecated since 20.08 and are removed in this release.mem: Removed the unioned field
phys_addr
from the structuresrte_memseg
andrte_memzone
. The fieldiova
remains from the old unions.mempool: Removed the unioned fields
phys_addr
andphysaddr
from the structuresrte_mempool_memhdr
andrte_mempool_objhdr
. The fieldiova
remains from the old unions. The flag nameMEMPOOL_F_NO_PHYS_CONTIG
is removed, while the aliased flagMEMPOOL_F_NO_IOVA_CONTIG
is kept.mbuf: Removed the functions
rte_mbuf_data_dma_addr*
and the macrosrte_pktmbuf_mtophys*
. The same functionality is still available with the functions and macros havingiova
in their names instead ofdma_addr
ormtophys
.mbuf: Removed the unioned field
buf_physaddr
fromrte_mbuf
. The fieldbuf_iova
remains from the old union.mbuf: Removed the unioned field
refcnt_atomic
from the structuresrte_mbuf
andrte_mbuf_ext_shared_info
. The fieldrefcnt
remains from the old unions.mbuf: Removed the unioned fields
userdata
andudata64
from the structurerte_mbuf
. It is replaced with dynamic fields.mbuf: Removed the field
seqn
from the structurerte_mbuf
. It is replaced with dynamic fields.mbuf: Removed the field
timestamp
from the structurerte_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
andpci_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
andmapped_pci_res_list
).ethdev: Removed the
kdrv
field in the ethdevrte_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 fromvoid
toint
to provide a way to report various error conditions.ethdev: Added
int
return type torte_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
andnb_queue
in structrte_eth_dcb_tc_queue_mapping
fromuint8_t
touint16_t
. As the data ofuint8_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()
andrte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl()
.ethdev: Removed the legacy L2 tunnel configuration API, including
rte_eth_dev_l2_tunnel_eth_type_conf()
andrte_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 ofrte_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
fromenum rte_crypto_aead_algorithm
,RTE_CRYPTO_CIPHER_LIST_END
fromenum rte_crypto_cipher_algorithm
andRTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_LIST_END
fromenum 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
andrte_cryptodev_scheduler_slaves_get
torte_cryptodev_scheduler_worker_attach
,rte_cryptodev_scheduler_worker_detach
andrte_cryptodev_scheduler_workers_get
accordingly.scheduler: Renamed the configuration value
RTE_CRYPTODEV_SCHEDULER_MAX_NB_SLAVES
toRTE_CRYPTODEV_SCHEDULER_MAX_NB_WORKERS
.security: The
hfn_ovrd
field inrte_security_pdcp_xform
is changed fromuint32_t
touint8_t
so that a new fieldsdap_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 APIrte_security_session_get_size
for private session mempool.ipsec:
RTE_SATP_LOG2_NUM
has been dropped fromenum
and subsequently movedrte_ipsec
lib from experimental to stable.baseband/fpga_lte_fec: Renamed function
fpga_lte_fec_configure
torte_fpga_lte_fec_configure
and structurefpga_lte_fec_conf
torte_fpga_lte_fec_conf
.baseband/fpga_5gnr_fec: Renamed function
fpga_5gnr_fec_configure
torte_fpga_5gnr_fec_configure
and structurefpga_5gnr_fec_conf
torte_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()
andrte_rawdev_configure()
, allowing limited driver type-checking and ABI compatibility.rawdev: Changed the return type of the function
rte_dev_info_get()
and the functionrte_rawdev_queue_conf_get()
fromvoid
toint
allowing the return of error codes from drivers.rawdev: The running of a drivers
selftest()
function can now be done using therawdev_autotest
command in thedpdk-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, theioat_rawdev_autotest
command has been removed as no longer needed.raw/ioat: As noted above, the
rte_ioat_do_copies()
andrte_ioat_completed_copies()
functions have been renamed torte_ioat_perform_ops()
andrte_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 fromrte_bpf_xtype
.gso: Changed
rte_gso_segment
behaviour and return value:pkt
is not saved topkts_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 functionrte_sched_subport_config
.sched: Removed
tb_rate
,tc_rate
,tc_period
andtb_size
fromstruct rte_sched_subport_params
.
1.4. ABI Changes
eal: Removed the unimplemented function
rte_dump_registers()
.ethdev
changesThe following device operation function pointers moved from
struct eth_dev_ops
tostruct 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
andrx_nseg
torte_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 structurerte_flow_item_eth
, indicating that packet header contains at least one VLAN.Added new field
has_more_vlan
to the structurerte_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
andtbl8
from the structrte_lpm
. The removed fields were made internal.
1.5. 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
1.6. 20.11.1 Release Notes
1.6.1. 20.11.1 Fixes
app/crypto-perf: fix CSV output format
app/crypto-perf: fix latency CSV output
app/crypto-perf: fix spelling in output
app/crypto-perf: remove always true condition
app/eventdev: adjust event count order for pipeline test
app/eventdev: fix SMP barrier in performance test
app/eventdev: remove redundant enqueue in burst Tx
app: fix build with extra include paths
app/flow-perf: simplify objects initialization
app/procinfo: fix check on xstats-ids
app/procinfo: fix _filters stats reporting
app/procinfo: fix security context info
app/procinfo: remove useless assignment
app/procinfo: remove useless memset
app/testpmd: avoid exit without terminal restore
app/testpmd: fix help of metering commands
app/testpmd: fix IP checksum calculation
app/testpmd: fix key for RSS flow rule
app/testpmd: fix max Rx packet length for VLAN packets
app/testpmd: fix packets dump overlapping
app/testpmd: fix queue reconfig request on Rx split update
app/testpmd: fix queue stats mapping configuration
app/testpmd: fix setting maximum packet length
app/testpmd: fix start index for showing FEC array
app/testpmd: release flows left before port stop
app/testpmd: support shared age action query
bitrate: fix missing header include
build: fix linker flags on Windows
build: fix plugin load on static build
build: force pkg-config for dependency detection
build: provide suitable error for “both” libraries option
bus/pci: fix build with MinGW-w64 8
bus/pci: fix build with Windows SDK >= 10.0.20253
bus/pci: fix hardware ID limit on Windows
bus/pci: ignore missing NUMA node on Windows
common/mlx5: fix completion queue entry size configuration
common/mlx5: fix pointer cast on Windows
common/mlx5: fix storing synced MAC to internal table
common/octeontx2: fix build with SVE
common/sfc_efx/base: apply mask to value on match field set
common/sfc_efx/base: check for MAE privilege
common/sfc_efx/base: enhance field ID check in field set API
common/sfc_efx/base: fix MAE match spec class comparison API
common/sfc_efx/base: fix MAE match spec validation helper
common/sfc_efx/base: fix MPORT related byte order handling
common/sfc_efx/base: fix signed/unsigned mismatch warnings
common/sfc_efx/base: remove warnings about inline specifiers
common/sfc_efx/base: support alternative MAE match fields
common/sfc_efx/base: update MCDI headers for MAE privilege
crypto/dpaa2_sec: fix memory allocation check
crypto/qat: fix access to uninitialized variable
crypto/qat: fix digest in buffer
doc: add FEC to NIC features
doc: add vtune profiling config to prog guide
doc: fix figure numbering in graph guide
doc: fix mark action zero value in mlx5 guide
doc: fix product link in hns3 guide
doc: fix QinQ flow rules in testpmd guide
doc: fix RSS flow description in i40e guide
doc: fix some statements for ice vector PMD
doc: fix supported feature table in mlx5 guide
doc: update flow mark action in mlx5 guide
eal/arm: fix debug build with gcc for 128-bit atomics
eal: fix automatic loading of drivers as shared libs
eal: fix internal ABI tag with clang
eal: fix MCS lock header include
eal: fix reciprocal header include
eal/linux: fix handling of error events from epoll
eal/windows: fix build with MinGW-w64 8
eal/windows: fix C++ compatibility
eal/windows: fix debug build with MinGW
eal/windows: fix vfprintf warning with clang
ethdev: avoid blocking telemetry for link status
ethdev: fix close failure handling
ethdev: fix max Rx packet length check
ethdev: fix missing header include
eventdev: fix a return value comment
event/dlb: fix accessing uninitialized variables
examples/eventdev: add info output for main core
examples/eventdev: check CPU core enabling
examples/eventdev: move ethdev stop to the end
examples/l3fwd: remove limitation on Tx queue count
examples/pipeline: fix CLI parsing crash
examples/pipeline: fix VXLAN script permission
fbarray: fix overlap check
fib: fix missing header includes
ip_frag: remove padding length of fragment
ipsec: fix missing header include
lib: fix doxygen for parameters of function pointers
license: add licenses for exception cases
lpm: fix vector IPv4 lookup
mbuf: add C++ include guard for dynamic fields header
mbuf: fix missing header include
mbuf: remove unneeded atomic generic header include
mempool: fix panic on dump or audit
metrics: fix variable declaration in header
net/af_xdp: remove useless assignment
net/avp: remove always true condition
net/axgbe: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/bnxt: disable end of packet padding for Rx
net/bnxt: fix cleanup on mutex init failure
net/bnxt: fix doorbell write ordering
net/bnxt: fix error handling in device start
net/bnxt: fix fallback mbuf allocation logic
net/bnxt: fix format specifier for unsigned int
net/bnxt: fix freeing mbuf
net/bnxt: fix FW version log
net/bnxt: fix lock init and destroy
net/bnxt: fix max rings computation
net/bnxt: fix memory leak when mapping fails
net/bnxt: fix null termination of Rx mbuf chain
net/bnxt: fix outer UDP checksum Rx offload capability
net/bnxt: fix packet type index calculation
net/bnxt: fix PF resource query
net/bnxt: fix Rx completion ring size calculation
net/bnxt: fix Rx rings in RSS redirection table
net/bnxt: fix VNIC config on Rx queue stop
net/bnxt: fix VNIC RSS configure function
net/bnxt: limit Rx representor packets per poll
net/bnxt: make offload flags mapping per-ring
net/bnxt: propagate FW command failure to application
net/bnxt: refactor init/uninit
net/bnxt: release HWRM lock in error
net/bnxt: remove redundant return
net/bnxt: set correct checksum status in mbuf
net/bonding: fix PCI address comparison on non-PCI ports
net/bonding: fix port id validity check on parsing
net/bonding: remove local variable shadowing outer one
net/cxgbe: accept VLAN flow items without ethertype
net/cxgbe: fix jumbo frame flag condition
net/dpaa2: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/dpaa: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/e1000: fix flow control mode setting
net/e1000: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/ena: fix Tx doorbell statistics
net/ena: fix Tx SQ free space assessment
net/ena: flush Rx buffers memory pool cache
net/ena: prevent double doorbell
net/ena: validate Rx req ID upon acquiring descriptor
net/enetc: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/enic: fix filter log message
net/enic: fix filter type used for flow API
net: fix missing header include
net/hinic: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/hinic: restore vectorised code
net/hns3: adjust format specifier for enum
net/hns3: adjust some comments
net/hns3: fix build with SVE
net/hns3: fix crash with multi-process
net/hns3: fix data overwriting during register dump
net/hns3: fix dump register out of range
net/hns3: fix error code in xstats
net/hns3: fix FEC state query
net/hns3: fix firmware exceptions by concurrent commands
net/hns3: fix flow director rule residue on malloc failure
net/hns3: fix interception with flow director
net/hns3: fix interrupt resources in Rx interrupt mode
net/hns3: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/hns3: fix link status change from firmware
net/hns3: fix memory leak on secondary process exit
net/hns3: fix query order of link status and link info
net/hns3: fix register length when dumping registers
net/hns3: fix RSS indirection table size
net/hns3: fix Rx/Tx errors stats
net/hns3: fix stats flip overflow
net/hns3: fix VF query link status in dev init
net/hns3: fix VF reset on mailbox failure
net/hns3: fix xstats with id and names
net/hns3: remove MPLS from supported flow items
net/hns3: use new opcode for clearing hardware resource
net/hns3: validate requested maximum Rx frame length
net/i40e: add null input checks
net/i40e: fix flex payload rule conflict
net/i40e: fix global register recovery
net/i40e: fix jumbo frame flag condition
net/i40e: fix L4 checksum flag
net/i40e: fix returned code for RSS hardware failure
net/i40e: fix Rx bytes statistics
net/i40e: fix stats counters
net/i40e: fix VLAN stripping in VF
net/i40e: fix X722 for 802.1ad frames ability
net/iavf: fix conflicting RSS combination rules
net/iavf: fix GTPU UL and DL support for flow director
net/iavf: fix jumbo frame flag condition
net/iavf: fix memory leak in large VF
net/iavf: fix queue pairs configuration
net/iavf: fix symmetric flow rule creation
net/iavf: fix vector mapping with queue
net/ice/base: fix memory handling
net/ice/base: fix null pointer dereference
net/ice/base: fix tunnel destroy
net/ice: check Rx queue number on RSS init
net/ice: disable IPv4 checksum offload in vector Tx
net/ice: drain out DCF AdminQ command queue
net/ice: enlarge Rx queue rearm threshold to 64
net/ice: fix jumbo frame flag condition
net/ice: fix outer checksum flags
net/ice: fix outer UDP Tx checksum offload
net/ice: fix RSS lookup table initialization
net/ionic: allow separate L3 and L4 checksum offload
net/ionic: do minor logging fixups
net/ionic: fix address handling in Tx
net/ionic: fix link speed and autonegotiation
net/ionic: fix up function attribute tags
net/ipn3ke: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/ixgbe: detect failed VF MTU set
net/ixgbe: disable NFS filtering
net/ixgbe: fix configuration of max frame size
net/ixgbe: fix flex bytes flow director rule
net/ixgbe: fix jumbo frame flag condition
net/ixgbe: fix UDP zero checksum on x86
net/liquidio: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/mlx4: fix device detach
net/mlx4: fix handling of probing failure
net/mlx4: fix port attach in secondary process
net/mlx5: check FW miniCQE format capabilities
net/mlx5: fix buffer split offload advertising
net/mlx5: fix comparison sign in flow engine
net/mlx5: fix constant array size
net/mlx5: fix count actions query in sample flow
net/mlx5: fix counter and age flow action validation
net/mlx5: fix crash on secondary process port close
net/mlx5: fix device name size on Windows
net/mlx5: fix Direct Verbs flow descriptor allocation
net/mlx5: fix drop action in tunnel offload mode
net/mlx5: fix flow action destroy wrapper
net/mlx5: fix flow operation wrapper per OS
net/mlx5: fix flow split combined with age action
net/mlx5: fix flow split combined with counter
net/mlx5: fix flow tag decompression
net/mlx5: fix freeing packet pacing
net/mlx5: fix hairpin flow split decision
net/mlx5: fix leak on ASO SQ creation failure
net/mlx5: fix leak on Rx queue creation failure
net/mlx5: fix leak on Tx queue creation failure
net/mlx5: fix mark action in active tunnel offload
net/mlx5: fix mbuf freeing in vectorized MPRQ
net/mlx5: fix miniCQE configuration for Verbs
net/mlx5: fix multi-process port ID
net/mlx5: fix port attach in secondary process
net/mlx5: fix shared age action validation
net/mlx5: fix shared RSS and mark actions combination
net/mlx5: fix shared RSS capability check
net/mlx5: fix shared RSS translation and cleanup
net/mlx5: fix tunnel rules validation on VF representor
net/mlx5: fix Tx queue size created with DevX
net/mlx5: fix unnecessary checking for RSS action
net/mlx5: fix Verbs memory allocation callback
net/mlx5: fix VXLAN decap on non-VXLAN flow
net/mlx5: fix wire vport hint
net/mlx5: refuse empty VLAN in flow pattern
net/mlx5: remove CQE padding device argument
net/mlx5: unify operations for all OS
net/mlx5: validate hash Rx queue pointer
net/mvneta: check allocation in Rx queue flush
net/mvpp2: fix frame size checking
net/mvpp2: fix stack corruption
net/mvpp2: remove CRC length from MRU validation
net/mvpp2: remove debug log on fast-path
net/mvpp2: remove VLAN flush
net/netvsc: ignore unsupported packet on sync command
net/nfp: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/nfp: read chip model from PluDevice register
net/octeontx2: fix corruption in segments list
net/octeontx2: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU
net/octeontx2: fix PF flow action for Tx
net/octeontx: fix build with SVE
net/octeontx: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/octeontx: fix max Rx packet length
net/pcap: fix byte stats for drop Tx
net/pcap: fix infinite Rx with large files
net/pcap: remove local variable shadowing outer one
net/qede: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/qede: fix promiscuous enable
net/sfc: fix generic byte statistics to exclude FCS bytes
net/sfc: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/sfc: fix TSO and checksum offloads for EF10
net/thunderx: fix jumbo frame flag condition for MTU set
net/virtio: add missing backend features negotiation
net/virtio: fix getting old status on reconnect
net/virtio: fix memory init with vDPA backend
net/virtio-user: fix protocol features advertising
net/virtio-user: fix run closing stdin and close callfd
node: fix missing header include
pipeline: fix missing header includes
power: clean up includes
power: create guest channel public header file
power: export guest channel header file
power: fix missing header includes
power: make channel message functions public
power: rename constants
power: rename public structs
regex/mlx5: fix memory rule alignment
regex/mlx5: fix number of supported queues
regex/mlx5: fix support for group id
regex/octeontx2: fix PCI table overflow
rib: fix insertion in some cases
rib: fix missing header include
rib: fix missing header includes
service: propagate init error in EAL
table: fix missing header include
telemetry: fix missing header include
test/distributor: fix return buffer queue overload
test/event_crypto: set cipher operation in transform
test: fix buffer overflow in Tx burst
test: fix terminal settings on exit
test/ipsec: fix result code for not supported
test/mcslock: remove unneeded per lcore copy
test/ring: reduce duration of performance tests
test/rwlock: fix spelling and missing whitespace
usertools: fix binding built-in kernel driver
vdpa/mlx5: fix configuration mutex cleanup
version: 20.11.1-rc1
vhost: fix missing header includes
vhost: fix packed ring dequeue offloading
vhost: fix vid allocation race
1.6.2. 20.11.1 Validation
Canonical(R) Testing
Build tests on Ubuntu 21.04
- OVS-DPDK tests on x86_64
1.0.0 (07:05:12): phys (BM) tests
1.1.0 (07:05:12): initialize environment
1.1.1 (07:09:32): testpmd => Pass
1.1.2 (07:11:12): check testpmd output => Pass
2.0.0 (07:11:12): prep virtual test environment
1.0.0 (07:14:14): virt tests
1.1.0 (07:14:14): initialize environment
3.0.0 (07:15:30): performance tests
3.1.0 (07:15:30): prep benchmarks
3.2.0 (07:15:51): performance tests
3.2.1 (07:16:01): test guest-openvswitch for OVS-5CPU => Pass
3.2.2 (07:35:44): test guest-dpdk-vhost-user-client-multiq for
OVSDPDK-VUC => Pass
4.0.0 (07:57:11): VUC endurance checks
4.1.0 (07:57:11): prep VUC endurance tests
4.1.1 (08:12:38): start stop guests (client) => Pass
4.1.2 (09:25:59): add/remove ports (client) => Pass
4.2.0 (09:35:04): Final cleanup
Red Hat(R) Testing
Platform
RHEL 8
Kernel 4.18
Qemu 5.2
X540-AT2 NIC(ixgbe, 10G)
Functionality
Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(1G hugepage size)
Guest with device assignment(PF) throughput testing(2M hugepage size)
Guest with device assignment(VF) throughput testing
PVP (host dpdk testpmd as vswitch) 1Q: throughput testing
PVP vhost-user 2Q throughput testing
PVP vhost-user 1Q * cross numa node throughput testing
Guest with vhost-user 2 queues throughput testing
vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: qemu reconnect
vhost-user reconnect with dpdk-client, qemu-server: ovs reconnect
PVP 1Q live migration testing
PVP 1Q cross numa node live migration testing
Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing
Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 1Q live migration testing (2M)
Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 2Q live migration testing
Guest with ovs+dpdk+vhost-user 4Q live migration testing
Host PF + DPDK testing
Host VF + DPDK testing
Broadcom(R) Testing
Functionality
Tx/Rx
Link status
RSS
TSO
VLAN filtering
MAC filtering
statistics
Checksum offload
MTU
Promiscuous mode
Platform
BCM57414 NetXtreme-E 10Gb/25Gb Ethernet Controller, Firmware: 218.1.186.0
BCM57508 NetXtreme-E 10Gb/25Gb/40Gb/50Gb/100Gb/200Gb Ethernet, Firmware : 219.0.0.74
Intel(R) Testing
- Basic Intel(R) NIC(ixgbe, i40e and ice) testing
PF (i40e)
PF (ixgbe)
PF (ice)
VF (i40e)
VF (ixgbe)
VF (ice)
Compile Testing
Intel NIC single core/NIC performance
Power and IPsec
Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
vhost/virtio basic loopback, PVP and performance test
cryptodev Function/Performance
Intel(R) Testing with Open vSwitch
OVS testing with OVS 2.15.0
ICE Device
Jumbo frames, RSS, Kernel forwarding
i40e Device
Basic performance (RFC2544 P2P, PVP_CONT, RFC2544 PVP_TPUT, RFC2544 PVVP_TPUT, PVPV), Jumbo frames, RSS
Niantic Device
Basic performance tests (RFC2544 P2P, PVP_CONT, RFC2544 PVP_TPUT, RFC2544 PVVP_TPUT, PVPV), Jumbo frames, RSS
vhost
Port addition/deletion, Jumbo frames, RSS
Nvidia(R) Testing
Basic functionality with testpmd
Tx/Rx
xstats
Timestamps
Link status
RTE flow and flow_director
RSS
VLAN stripping and insertion
Checksum/TSO
ptype
link_status_interrupt example application
l3fwd-power example application
Multi-process example applications
Build tests
Ubuntu 20.04.1 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-2.2.0.0.
Ubuntu 20.04.1 with rdma-core master (7f2d460).
Ubuntu 20.04.1 with rdma-core v28.0.
Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core v17.1.
Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core master (7f2d460) (i386).
Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
Fedora 32 with rdma-core v33.0.
CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (7f2d460).
CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-2.2.0.0.
CentOS 8 8.3.2011 with rdma-core master (7f2d460).
openSUSE Leap 15.2 with rdma-core v27.1.
ConnectX-5
RHEL 7.4
Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-2.2.0.0
Kernel: 5.12.0-rc1 / Driver: rdma-core 34.0
fw 14.29.2002
ConnectX-4 Lx
RHEL 7.4
Driver MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.2-2.2.0.0
Kernel: 5.12.0-rc1 / Driver: rdma-core 34.0
fw 16.29.2002
1.6.3. 20.11.1 Known Issues
ICE
creating 512 acl rules after creating a full mask switch rule fails.
vhost/virtio
udp-fragmentation-offload cannot be setup on Ubuntu 19.10 VMs. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207075
vm2vm virtio-net connectivity between two vms randomly fails due to lost connection after vhost reconnect.
1.7. 20.11.2 Release Notes
1.7.1. 20.11.2 Fixes
acl: fix build with GCC 11
app/bbdev: check memory allocation
app/bbdev: fix HARQ error messages
app/crypto-perf: check memory allocation
app/eventdev: fix lcore parsing skipping last core
app/eventdev: fix overflow in lcore list parsing
app/eventdev: fix timeout accuracy
app: fix exit messages
app/flow-perf: fix encap/decap actions
app/regex: fix usage text
app/testpmd: check MAC address query
app/testpmd: fix bitmap of link speeds when force speed
app/testpmd: fix build with musl
app/testpmd: fix DCB forwarding configuration
app/testpmd: fix DCB re-configuration
app/testpmd: fix division by zero on socket memory dump
app/testpmd: fix forward lcores number for DCB
app/testpmd: fix max queue number for Tx offloads
app/testpmd: fix NVGRE encap configuration
app/testpmd: fix segment number check
app/testpmd: fix tunnel offload flows cleanup
app/testpmd: fix Tx/Rx descriptor query error log
app/testpmd: fix usage text
app/testpmd: remove unnecessary UDP tunnel check
app/testpmd: verify DCB config during forward config
bpf: fix JSLT validation
build: detect execinfo library on Linux
build: exclude meson files from examples installation
build: fix drivers selection without Python
build: remove redundant _GNU_SOURCE definitions
buildtools: fix all drivers disabled on Windows
buildtools: fix build with busybox
bus/dpaa: fix 64-bit arch detection
bus/dpaa: fix build with musl
bus/dpaa: fix statistics reading
bus/fslmc: fix random portal hangs with qbman 5.0
bus/fslmc: remove unused debug macro
bus/pci: fix Windows kernel driver categories
bus/pci: skip probing some Windows NDIS devices
bus/pci: support I/O port operations with musl
ci: catch coredumps
ci: enable v21 ABI checks
ci: fix package installation in GitHub Actions
ci: hook to GitHub Actions
ci: ignore APT update failure in GitHub Actions
common/dpaax/caamflib: fix build with musl
common/dpaax: fix possible null pointer access
common/iavf: fix duplicated offload bit
common/mlx5: add DevX commands for queue counters
common/mlx5: add DevX command to query WQ
common/mlx5: add timestamp format support to DevX
common/mlx5: fix DevX read output buffer size
common/mlx5/linux: add glue function to query WQ
common/qat: increase IM buffer size for GEN3
common/sfc_efx/base: add missing MCDI response length checks
common/sfc_efx/base: fix dereferencing null pointer
common/sfc_efx/base: fix indication of MAE encap support
common/sfc_efx/base: limit reported MCDI response length
common/sfc_efx: remove GENEVE from supported tunnels
compress/qat: enable compression on GEN3
config/ppc: reduce number of cores and NUMA nodes
crypto/dpaa2_sec: fix close and uninit functions
crypto/dpaa_sec: affine the thread portal affinity
crypto/octeontx: fix session-less mode
crypto/qat: fix null authentication request
crypto/qat: fix offset for out-of-place scatter-gather
crypto/zuc: fix build with GCC 11
devtools: fix orphan symbols check with busybox
doc: fix build with Sphinx 4
doc: fix formatting in testpmd guide
doc: fix HiSilicon copyright syntax
doc: fix matching versions in ice guide
doc: fix multiport syntax in nfp guide
doc: fix names of UIO drivers
doc: fix runtime options in DLB2 guide
doc: fix sphinx rtd theme import in GHA
doc: remove PDF requirements
doc: update recommended versions for i40e
drivers: fix log level after loading
drivers/net: fix FW version query
eal: add C++ include guard for reciprocal header
eal/arm64: fix platform register bit
eal: fix build with musl
eal: fix comment of OS-specific header files
eal: fix evaluation of log level option
eal: fix hang in control thread creation
eal: fix leak in shared lib mode detection
eal: fix memory mapping on 32-bit target
eal: fix race in control thread creation
eal: fix service core list parsing
eal/windows: add missing SPDX license tag
eal/windows: fix default thread priority
eal/windows: fix return codes of pthread shim layer
ethdev: add missing buses in device iterator
ethdev: update flow item GTP QFI definition
ethdev: validate input in EEPROM info
ethdev: validate input in module EEPROM dump
ethdev: validate input in register info
eventdev: fix case to initiate crypto adapter service
eventdev: fix memory leakage on thread creation failure
eventdev: remove redundant thread name setting
event/dlb2: remove references to deferred scheduling
event/dlb: fix header includes for musl
event/dpaa2: remove unused macros
event/octeontx2: configure crypto adapter xaq pool
event/octeontx2: fix crypto adapter queue pair operations
event/octeontx2: fix device reconfigure for single slot
event/octeontx2: fix XAQ pool reconfigure
examples: add eal cleanup to examples
examples/bbdev: fix header include for musl
examples/ethtool: remove unused parsing
examples: fix pkg-config override
examples/flow_classify: fix NUMA check of port and core
examples/l2fwd-cat: fix NUMA check of port and core
examples/l2fwd-crypto: fix packet length while decryption
examples/l2fwd-crypto: skip masked devices
examples/l3fwd: fix LPM IPv6 subnets
examples/l3fwd-power: fix empty poll thresholds
examples/packet_ordering: fix port configuration
examples/ptpclient: remove wrong comment
examples/rxtx_callbacks: fix port ID format specifier
examples/skeleton: fix NUMA check of port and core
examples/timer: fix time interval
examples/vhost: check memory table query
examples/vhost_crypto: remove unused short option
fbarray: fix log message on truncation error
ipc: check malloc sync reply result
ipc: use monotonic clock
ip_frag: fix fragmenting IPv4 packet with header option
kni: fix kernel deadlock with bifurcated device
kni: refactor user request processing
kni: support async user request
license: fix typos
log/linux: make default output stderr
mbuf: check shared memory before dumping dynamic space
mem: fix freeing segments in –huge-unlink mode
net/af_xdp: fix error handling during Rx queue setup
net/ark: fix leak on thread termination
net/ark: refactor Rx buffer recovery
net/ark: update packet director initial state
net/bnx2x: fix build with GCC 11
net/bnx2x: fix build with GCC 11
net/bnxt: check kvargs parsing
net/bnxt: check PCI config read
net/bnxt: drop unused attribute
net/bnxt: fix configuring LRO
net/bnxt: fix device readiness check
net/bnxt: fix double free in port start failure
net/bnxt: fix dynamic VNIC count
net/bnxt: fix firmware fatal error handling
net/bnxt: fix FW readiness check during recovery
net/bnxt: fix handling of null flow mask
net/bnxt: fix health check alarm cancellation
net/bnxt: fix HWRM and FW incompatibility handling
net/bnxt: fix link state operations
net/bnxt: fix memory allocation for command response
net/bnxt: fix mismatched type comparison in MAC restore
net/bnxt: fix mismatched type comparison in Rx
net/bnxt: fix PCI write check
net/bnxt: fix PTP support for Thor
net/bnxt: fix queues per VNIC
net/bnxt: fix resource cleanup
net/bnxt: fix ring count calculation for Thor
net/bnxt: fix RSS context cleanup
net/bnxt: fix Rx and Tx timestamps
net/bnxt: fix Rx buffer posting
net/bnxt: fix Rx descriptor status
net/bnxt: fix Rx queue count
net/bnxt: fix Rx timestamp when FIFO pending bit is set
net/bnxt: fix single PF per port check
net/bnxt: fix timesync when PTP is not supported
net/bnxt: fix Tx length hint threshold
net/bnxt: fix Tx timestamp init
net/bnxt: fix VF info allocation
net/bnxt: fix VNIC configuration
net/bnxt: fix xstats get
net/bnxt: mute some failure logs
net/bnxt: prevent device access in error state
net/bnxt: refactor multi-queue Rx configuration
net/bnxt: remove unnecessary forward declarations
net/bnxt: remove unused function parameters
net/bnxt: remove unused macro
net/bnxt: use prefix on global function
net/bonding: fix adding itself as its slave
net/bonding: fix LACP system address check
net/bonding: fix leak on remove
net/bonding: fix socket ID check
net/cxgbe: remove use of uint type
net/dpaa2: fix getting link status
net/dpaa: fix getting link status
net/e1000/base: fix timeout for shadow RAM write
net/e1000: fix flow error message object
net/e1000: fix max Rx packet size
net/e1000: fix Rx error counter for bad length
net/e1000: remove MTU setting limitation
net/ena/base: destroy multiple wait events
net/ena/base: fix type conversions by explicit casting
net/ena/base: improve style and comments
net/ena: fix crash with unsupported device argument
net/ena: fix parsing of large LLQ header device argument
net/ena: fix releasing Tx ring mbufs
net/ena: indicate Rx RSS hash presence
net/ena: remove endian swap functions
net/ena: report default ring size
net/ena: switch memcpy to optimized version
net/enic: enable GENEVE offload via VNIC configuration
net/enic: fix flow initialization error handling
net/failsafe: fix RSS hash offload reporting
net/failsafe: report minimum and maximum MTU
net: fix comment in IPv6 header
net/hinic: fix crash in secondary process
net/hns3: clear hash map on flow director clear
net/hns3: delete redundant blank line
net/hns3: fail setting FEC if one bit mode is not supported
net/hns3: fix concurrent interrupt handling
net/hns3: fix configure FEC when concurrent with reset
net/hns3: fix copyright date
net/hns3: fix DCB configuration
net/hns3: fix DCB mode check
net/hns3: fix DCB reconfiguration
net/hns3: fix device capabilities for copper media type
net/hns3: fix flow control exception
net/hns3: fix flow control mode
net/hns3: fix flow counter value
net/hns3: fix flow director lock
net/hns3: fix FLR miss detection
net/hns3: fix handling link update
net/hns3: fix HW buffer size on MTU update
net/hns3: fix link speed when port is down
net/hns3: fix link speed when VF device is down
net/hns3: fix link status when port is stopped
net/hns3: fix link update when failed to get link info
net/hns3: fix log on flow director clear
net/hns3: fix long task queue pairs reset time
net/hns3: fix mailbox error message
net/hns3: fix mailbox message ID in log
net/hns3: fix mbuf leakage
net/hns3: fix missing outer L4 UDP flag for VXLAN
net/hns3: fix MTU config complexity
net/hns3: fix ordering in secondary process initialization
net/hns3: fix possible mismatched response of mailbox
net/hns3: fix processing link status message on PF
net/hns3: fix processing Tx offload flags
net/hns3: fix querying flow director counter for out param
net/hns3: fix queue state when concurrent with reset
net/hns3: fix reporting undefined speed
net/hns3: fix requested FC mode rollback
net/hns3: fix rollback after setting PVID failure
net/hns3: fix Rx/Tx queue numbers check
net/hns3: fix secondary process request start/stop Rx/Tx
net/hns3: fix setting default MAC address in bonding of VF
net/hns3: fix some packet types
net/hns3: fix time delta calculation
net/hns3: fix timing in mailbox
net/hns3: fix timing in resetting queues
net/hns3: fix TM QCN error event report by MSI-X
net/hns3: fix Tx checksum for UDP packets with special port
net/hns3: fix typos on comments
net/hns3: fix use of command status enumeration
net/hns3: fix vector Rx burst limitation
net/hns3: fix verification of NEON support
net/hns3: fix VF alive notification after config restore
net/hns3: fix VF handling LSC event in secondary process
net/hns3: fix VF mailbox head field
net/hns3: fix VMDq mode check
net/hns3: increase readability in logs
net/hns3: log time delta in decimal format
net/hns3: remove meaningless packet buffer rollback
net/hns3: remove read when enabling TM QCN error event
net/hns3: remove redundant mailbox response
net/hns3: remove unused macro
net/hns3: remove unused macros
net/hns3: remove unused macros
net/hns3: remove unused mailbox macro and struct
net/hns3: remove unused parameter markers
net/hns3: remove unused VMDq code
net/hns3: remove VLAN/QinQ ptypes from support list
net/hns3: return error on PCI config write failure
net/hns3: support get device version when dump register
net/hns3: update HiSilicon copyright syntax
net/i40e: announce request queue capability in PF
net/i40e: fix flow director config after flow validate
net/i40e: fix flow director for common pctypes
net/i40e: fix input set field mask
net/i40e: fix IPv4 fragment offload
net/i40e: fix lack of MAC type when set MAC address
net/i40e: fix negative VEB index
net/i40e: fix parsing packet type for NEON
net/i40e: fix primary MAC type when starting port
net/i40e: fix VF RSS configuration
net/i40e: remove redundant VSI check in Tx queue setup
net/i40evf: fix packet loss for X722
net/iavf: fix crash in AVX512
net/iavf: fix lack of MAC type when set MAC address
net/iavf: fix packet length parsing in AVX512
net/iavf: fix primary MAC type when starting port
net/iavf: fix TSO max segment size
net/iavf: fix VF to PF command failure handling
net/iavf: fix wrong Tx context descriptor
net/ice/base: cleanup filter list on error
net/ice/base: fix build with GCC 11
net/ice/base: fix memory allocation for MAC addresses
net/ice/base: fix memory allocation wrapper
net/ice/base: fix payload indicator on ptype
net/ice/base: fix uninitialized struct
net/ice: check some functions return
net/ice: fix crash in AVX512
net/ice: fix disabling promiscuous mode
net/ice: fix fast mbuf freeing
net/ice: fix illegal access when removing MAC filter
net/ice: fix leak on thread termination
net/ice: fix RSS for L2 packet
net/ice: fix RSS hash update
net/ice: fix VLAN filter with PF
net/ice: fix VSI array out of bounds access
net/igc: fix Rx error counter for bad length
net/igc: fix Rx packet size
net/igc: fix Rx RSS hash offload capability
net/igc: fix speed configuration
net/igc: remove MTU setting limitation
net/igc: remove use of uint type
net/ionic: fix completion type in lif init
net/ixgbe: fix RSS RETA being reset after port start
net/ixgbe: fix Rx errors statistics for UDP checksum
net/kni: check init result
net/kni: warn on stop failure
net/memif: fix Tx bps statistics for zero-copy
net/mlx4: fix buffer leakage on device close
net/mlx4: fix leak when configured repeatedly
net/mlx4: fix RSS action with null hash key
net/mlx4: fix secondary process initialization ordering
net/mlx5: fix counter offset detection
net/mlx5: fix drop action for Direct Rules/Verbs
net/mlx5: fix external buffer pool registration for Rx queue
net/mlx5: fix flow actions index in cache
net/mlx5: fix flow age event triggering
net/mlx5: fix hashed list size for tunnel flow groups
net/mlx5: fix leak when configured repeatedly
net/mlx5: fix loopback for Direct Verbs queue
net/mlx5: fix metadata item validation for ingress flows
net/mlx5: fix missing shared RSS hash types
net/mlx5: fix probing device in legacy bonding mode
net/mlx5: fix receiving queue timestamp format
net/mlx5: fix redundant flow after RSS expansion
net/mlx5: fix resource release for mirror flow
net/mlx5: fix RSS flow item expansion for GRE key
net/mlx5: fix RSS flow item expansion for NVGRE
net/mlx5: fix Rx metadata leftovers
net/mlx5: fix Rx segmented packets on mbuf starvation
net/mlx5: fix secondary process initialization ordering
net/mlx5: fix shared inner RSS
net/mlx5: fix tunnel offload private items location
net/mlx5: fix UAR allocation diagnostics messages
net/mlx5: fix using flow tunnel before null check
net/mlx5/linux: fix firmware version
net/mlx5: remove drop queue function prototypes
net/mlx5: support RSS expansion for IPv6 GRE
net/mlx5: support timestamp format
net/nfp: fix reporting of RSS capabilities
net/octeontx2: fix VLAN filter
net/pcap: fix file descriptor leak on close
net/pcap: fix format string
net/qede: accept bigger RSS table
net/qede: reduce log verbosity
net/sfc: fix buffer size for flow parse
net/sfc: fix error path inconsistency
net/sfc: fix mark support in EF100 native Rx datapath
net/sfc: fix outer rule rollback on error
net/tap: check ioctl on restore
net/tap: fix build with GCC 11
net/tap: fix interrupt vector array size
net/txgbe: fix QinQ strip
net/txgbe: fix Rx missed packet counter
net/txgbe: remove unused functions
net/txgbe: update packet type
net/vhost: restore pseudo TSO support
net/virtio: fix getline memory leakage
net/virtio: fix interrupt unregistering for listening socket
net/virtio: fix vectorized Rx queue rearm
pipeline: fix endianness conversions
pipeline: fix instruction translation
power: do not skip saving original P-state governor
power: fix sanity checks for guest channel read
power: remove duplicated symbols from map file
power: save original ACPI governor always
raw/ifpga: fix device name format
raw/ioat: fix script for configuring small number of queues
raw/ntb: check memory allocations
raw/ntb: check SPAD user index
raw/octeontx2_dma: assign PCI device in DPI VF
raw/skeleton: add missing check after setting attribute
regex/mlx5: support timestamp format
regex/octeontx2: remove unused include directory
sched: fix traffic class oversubscription parameter
service: clean references to removed symbol
stack: allow lock-free only on relevant architectures
table: fix actions with different data size
telemetry: fix race on callbacks list
test/bpf: fix error message
test: check flow classifier creation
test: check thread creation
test/cmdline: fix inputs array
test/cmdline: silence clang 12 warning
test/crypto: copy offset data to OOP destination buffer
test/crypto: fix auth-cipher compare length in OOP
test/crypto: fix build with GCC 11
test/crypto: fix return value of a skipped test
test/distributor: fix burst flush on worker quit
test/distributor: fix worker notification in burst mode
test/event: fix timeout accuracy
test: fix autotest handling of skipped tests
test: fix build with GCC 11
test: fix division by zero
test: fix TCP header initialization
test/kni: check init result
test/kni: fix a comment
test/mem: fix page size for external memory
test/mempool: fix object initializer
test/power: add delay before checking CPU frequency
test/power: add turbo mode to frequency check
test/power: fix CPU frequency check
test/power: fix low frequency test when turbo enabled
test/power: fix turbo test
test/power: round CPU frequency to check
test: proceed if timer subsystem already initialized
test/table: fix build with GCC 11
test/timer: check memzone allocation
test/trace: fix race on collected perf data
vdpa/ifc: check PCI config read
vdpa/mlx5: fix device unplug
vdpa/mlx5: fix virtq cleaning
vdpa/mlx5: support timestamp format
version: 20.11.2-rc1
version: 20.11.2-rc2
vfio: do not merge contiguous areas
vfio: fix API description
vfio: fix DMA mapping granularity for IOVA as VA
vfio: fix duplicated user mem map
vhost: fix batch dequeue potential buffer overflow
vhost: fix initialization of async temporary header
vhost: fix initialization of temporary header
vhost: fix offload flags in Rx path
vhost: fix packed ring potential buffer overflow
vhost: fix queue initialization
vhost: fix redundant vring status change notification
vhost: fix split ring potential buffer overflow
1.7.2. 20.11.2 Validation
Intel(R) Testing
Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
PF(i40e, ixgbe, ice)
VF(i40e, ixgbe, ice)
Compile testing
Intel NIC single core/NIC performance
Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
Virtio function and performance
Cryptodev function and performance
Nvidia(R) Testing
Basic functionality with testpmd
Tx/Rx
xstats
Timestamps
Link status
RTE flow and flow_director
RSS
VLAN stripping and insertion
Checksum/TSO
ptype
link_status_interrupt example application
l3fwd-power example application
Multi-process example applications
Hardware LRO
Build tests
Ubuntu 20.04.2 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1.
Ubuntu 20.04.2 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5).
Ubuntu 20.04.2 with rdma-core v28.0.
Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core v17.1.
Ubuntu 18.04.5 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5) (i386).
Ubuntu 16.04.7 with rdma-core v22.7.
Fedora 34 with rdma-core v35.0.
Fedora 35 (Rawhide) with rdma-core v35.0 (only with gcc).
CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with rdma-core master (a66e2a5).
CentOS 7 7.9.2009 with MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1.
CentOS 8 8.3.2011 with rdma-core master (7f2d460).
OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 with rdma-core v31.0.
ConnectX-4 Lx
OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1
Firmware: 14.30.1004
ConnectX-5
OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Driver: MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.3-1.0.0.1
Firmware: 16.30.1004
Broadcom(R) Testing
Functionality
Tx/Rx
Link status
RSS
TSO
VLAN filtering
MAC filtering
statistics
Checksum offload
MTU
Promiscuous mode
Multicast
Platform
BCM57414 NetXtreme-E 10Gb/25Gb Ethernet Controller, Firmware: 219.0.88.0
BCM57508 NetXtreme-E 10Gb/25Gb/40Gb/50Gb/100Gb/200Gb Ethernet, Firmware : 220.0.0.100
1.7.3. 20.11.2 Known Issues
Build
Clang build is failing in Fedora 35. https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745
I40E/IXGBE
Flow director does not work. Fixed in 21.08.
ICE
Packet can’t be distributed to the same queue after reconfiguration. Fixed in 21.08.
The hash value remains unchanged when the SCTP port value changed. Fixed in 21.08 new feature.