A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v20.11-rc1
There are 1265 new patches in this snapshot, being the biggest -rc1 ever.
Like the previous LTS, the API of this -rc1 is exceptionnally not frozen.
More major changes are pending for -rc2.
Release notes:
https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.html
Highlights of 20.11-rc1, grouped by category:
* General
- write combining store API
- prefetch with intention to write API
- cldemote API
- SIMD bitwidth limit API
- Windows PCI netuio
- moved igb_uio to dpdk-kmods/linux
- removed Python 2 support
- removed Make support
* Networking
- CRC optimization for Intel AVX-512
- FEC API
- Rx buffer split
- thread safety in flow API
- shared action in flow API
- flow sampling and mirroring
- tunnel offload API
- multi-port hairpin
- Solarflare EF100 architecture
- vhost-vDPA backend in virtio-user
- removed vhost dequeue zero-copy
- SWX pipeline aligned with P4
* Baseband
- Intel ACC100 driver
* Cryptography
- raw datapath API
- Broadcom BCMFS symmetric crypto driver
* RegEx
- Marvell OCTEON TX2 regex driver
* Others
- ACL optimized for Intel AVX-512
- Intel DSA support in IOAT driver
Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
DPDK 20.11-rc2 is expected at the end of this month.
Let's be reactive and focus on this important milestone.
Thank you everyone
