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

Yongseok Koh yskoh at mellanox.com
Fri May 10 00:23:28 CEST 2019


> On May 9, 2019, at 2:31 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> 
> 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?

That's okay.
Do you want v2? Or, you'll make the changes?

>> +   * 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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