doc: update release notes for Mellanox drivers

Message ID 20190509211124.38610-1-yskoh@mellanox.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
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Series doc: update release notes for Mellanox drivers |

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Yongseok Koh May 9, 2019, 9:11 p.m. UTC
  mlx4/mlx5 release note for v19.05

Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
  

Comments

Thomas Monjalon May 9, 2019, 9:31 p.m. UTC | #1
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.
  
Yongseok Koh May 9, 2019, 10:23 p.m. UTC | #2
> On May 9, 2019, at 2:31 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@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.
> 
> 
>
  
Thomas Monjalon May 9, 2019, 10:42 p.m. UTC | #3
10/05/2019 00:23, Yongseok Koh:
> > On May 9, 2019, at 2:31 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
[...]
> That's okay.
> Do you want v2? Or, you'll make the changes?

Applied with changes, thanks
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
index 5044ac7df1..392fe80283 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst
@@ -128,11 +128,31 @@  New Features
   * Added Tx prepare to do Tx offloads checks.
   * Added support for VXLAN and GENEVE encapsulated TSO.
 
-* **Updated Mellanox drivers.**
+* **Updated Mellanox mlx4 drivers.**
 
-   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.**
+
+   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.
+   * 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.
 
 * **Renamed avf to iavf.**