2. New Features¶
- Poll-mode driver support for an early release of the PCIE host interface of the Intel(R) Ethernet Switch FM10000.
- Basic Rx/Tx functions for PF/VF
- Interrupt handling support for PF/VF
- Per queue start/stop functions for PF/VF
- Support Mailbox handling between PF/VF and PF/Switch Manager
- Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for PF/VF
- Scatter receive function for PF/VF
- Reta update/query for PF/VF
- VLAN filter set for PF
- Link status query for PF/VF
Note
The software is intended to run on pre-release hardware and may contain unknown or unresolved defects or issues related to functionality and performance. The poll mode driver is also pre-release and will be updated to a released version post hardware and base driver release. Should the official hardware release be made between DPDK releases an updated poll-mode driver will be made available.
Link Bonding
- Support for adaptive load balancing (mode 6) to the link bonding library.
- Support for registration of link status change callbacks with link bonding devices.
- Support for slaves devices which do not support link status change interrupts in the link bonding library via a link status polling mechanism.
PCI Hotplug with NULL PMD sample application
ABI versioning
x32 ABI
Non-EAL Thread Support
Multi-pthread Support
Re-order Library
ACL for AVX2
Architecture Independent CRC Hash
uio_pci_generic Support
KNI Optimizations
Vhost-user support
Virtio (link, vlan, mac, port IO, perf)
IXGBE-VF RSS
RX/TX Callbacks
Unified Flow Types
Indirect Attached MBUF Flag
Use default port configuration in TestPMD
Tunnel offloading in TestPMD
Poll Mode Driver - 40 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_i40e)
- Support for Flow Director
- Support for ethertype filter
- Support RSS in VF
- Support configuring redirection table with different size from 1GbE and 10 GbE
- 128/512 entries of 40GbE PF
- 64 entries of 40GbE VF
- Support configuring hash functions
- Support for VXLAN packet on Intel® 40GbE Controllers
Packet Distributor Sample Application
Job Stats library and Sample Application.
For further features supported in this release, see Chapter 3 Supported Features.