From patchwork Thu Nov 3 18:01:33 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "John Daley (johndale)" X-Patchwork-Id: 16920 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5933293C; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 19:01:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from rcdn-iport-7.cisco.com (rcdn-iport-7.cisco.com [173.37.86.78]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DE37152A for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 19:01:49 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=cisco.com; i=@cisco.com; l=1755; q=dns/txt; s=iport; t=1478196109; x=1479405709; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; bh=tzFwQRdSs/ffMe7fT52exZSjn+ejKygaBMElcNQY2Lg=; b=QpxJ4XU3imP66GVyuUzWUlQ2isMgxNvYvZddeKKRLQmGtI86MclDBMPp lHieaN4RWfffQRCdDF44vUNbUhMiggq2jdn2V3lSkvzZhCFZFk5+lQNmo xY/s0+umq4LpW3ujZzQL0UMhWoElhUE5D//oJT81fZTH8Q39mur25FJ/n E=; X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.31,587,1473120000"; d="scan'208";a="165305545" Received: from alln-core-6.cisco.com ([173.36.13.139]) by rcdn-iport-7.cisco.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 03 Nov 2016 18:01:48 +0000 Received: from cisco.com (savbu-usnic-a.cisco.com [10.193.184.48]) by alln-core-6.cisco.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id uA3I1mR1011193; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 18:01:48 GMT Received: by cisco.com (Postfix, from userid 392789) id 30DD43FAAE0F; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 11:01:48 -0700 (PDT) From: John Daley To: john.mcnamara@intel.com Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 11:01:33 -0700 Message-Id: <20161103180133.20000-1-johndale@cisco.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.10.0 Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update release notes with enic PMD changes X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Signed-off-by: John Daley Acked-by: John McNamara --- doc/guides/nics/features/enic.ini | 2 +- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/enic.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/enic.ini index 523d4f1..86576a7 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/features/enic.ini +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/enic.ini @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Link status = Y Link status event = Y Queue start/stop = Y -MTU update = P +MTU update = Y Jumbo frame = Y Scattered Rx = Y Promiscuous mode = Y diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst index 26cdd62..4427c52 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_11.rst @@ -131,6 +131,15 @@ New Features The GCC 4.9 ``-march`` option supports the Intel processor code names. The config option ``RTE_MACHINE`` can be used to pass code names to the compiler as ``-march`` flag. +* **Updated the enic driver.** + + The following changes were made to enic: + + * Use interrupt for link status checking instead of polling + * More flow director modes on UCS Blade with firmware version >= 2.0(13e) + * Full support for MTU update + * Support for rte_eth_rx_queue_count function + * Several bug fixes Resolved Issues --------------- @@ -153,6 +162,11 @@ EAL Drivers ~~~~~~~ +* **enic: Fixed several flow director issues ** + +* **enic: Fixed inadvertent setting of L4 checksum ptype on ICMP packets + +* **enic: Fixed high driver overhead when servicing Rx queues beyond the first Libraries ~~~~~~~~~