Hi Tim, I'd like to add this:
Netronome NFP PMD with PF support, including PF mutliport suport. Currently NFP PMF just supports VFs. Thanks On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:18 AM, O'Driscoll, Tim <tim.odrisc...@intel.com> wrote: > Below are the features that we're planning to submit for the 17.11 > release. We'll submit a patch to update the roadmap page with this info. > > It would be good if others are also willing to share their plans so that > we can build up a complete picture of what's planned for 17.11 and make > sure there's no duplication. > > > QoS Traffic Management Software Fallback and Sample App: The new QoS > traffic management API (rte_tm) was added to ethdev in 17.08. A software > fallback using the existing DPDK QoS scheduling library (librte_sched) will > be added. A sample application will also be created which demonstrates > usage of this API. > > Extend Power Management Lib to Support Per-Core Turbo Boost: The power > management library will be enhanced to support the ability to enable > per-core turbo boost for CPUs that support this capability. An example > usage of this would be in a pipeline model where enabling turbo boost on a > distributor core will increase overall system performance without having to > enable turbo on the worker cores. > > Power Management Policy Control: This change will allow policy control to > be applied to power management actions such as changes to p-states. A guest > will be able to send policy info to a power management process on the host, > which will apply that policy when making power management changes. > > DES SW PMD: A new SW crypto PMD will be created to support DES. This will > provide an optimized implementation for AVX512, and an unoptimised > implementation for AVX2/AVX/SSE. > > AES CCM Support in OpenSSL PMD: Support for AES CCM mode will be added to > the OpenSSL PMD. Further details on AES CCM are available at: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCM_mode. > > QAT PMD Performance Enhancements: Improve QAT cryptodev driver performance > by 1) RX/TX CSR writes coalescing, 2) deferred freeing of RX descriptors, > and 3) removing atomics and assuming single threaded queue pair operation. > > Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO): Support for Generic Receive Offload > (GRO) was added in 17.08. Similar support for GSO will be added in 17.11. > > GRO Heavyweight Mode Sample App: The Generic Receive Offload library added > in 17.08 operates in two modes: lightweight and heavyweight. Use of the > lightweight mode is demonstrated with testpmd. A sample application will be > created to demonstrate usage of the heavyweight mode. > > Primary/Secondary Process Support for Virtual Devices: Most virtual > devices don't currently support the primary/secondary process model. > Support for this will be added. > > Extend Port ID to 2 Bytes: The Port ID will be extended to 2 bytes. See > the ABI deprecation notice for further details: http://www.dpdk.org/dev/ > patchwork/patch/26852/. > > I40E API to Configure RSS Queue Regions: The I40E allows queue regions to > be defined, so that different traffic classes or different packet > classification types can be sent to different queues. > >
