[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update release notes for Mellanox drivers

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Thu May 9 23:31:05 CEST 2019


09/05/2019 23:11, Yongseok Koh:
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
> -* **Updated Mellanox drivers.**
> +* **Updated Mellanox mlx4 drivers.**

s/drivers/driver/

> -   New features and improvements were done in mlx4 and mlx5 PMDs:
> +   New features and improvements were done:
>  
>     * Added firmware version reading.
> +   * Added support for secondary process.
> +   * Added support of per-process device registers, reserving identical VA space
> +     is not needed anymore.
> +   * Added support for multicast address list interface
> +
> +* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 drivers.**

s/drivers/driver/

> +   New features and improvements were done:
> +
> +   * Added firmware version reading.
> +   * Added support of new naming scheme of representor.
> +   * Added support for new PCI device DMA map/unmap API.
> +   * Added support for multiport InfiniBand device.
> +   * Added control of excessive memory pinning by kernel.
> +   * Replace IPC socket with ``rte_mp`` API.

This is not really an improvement, just a clean-up.
OK to drop?

> +   * Added support of DMA memory registration by secondary process.
> +   * Added Direct Rule support in Direct Verbs flow driver.
> +   * Added support of per-process device registers, reserving identical VA space
> +     is not needed anymore.
> +   * Added E-Switch support in Direct Verbs flow driver.





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