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Not calling this function could result in leaking hugepages, leading to failure during initialization of secondary processes. +* **Updated mlx5 driver.** + + Updated the mlx5 driver including the following changes: + + * Enabled compilation as a plugin, thus removed the mandatory dependency with rdma-core. + With the special compilation, the rdma-core libraries will be loaded only in case + Mellanox device is being used. For binaries creation the PMD can be enabled, still not + requiring from every end user to install rdma-core. + * Improved multi-segment packet performance. + * Changed driver name to use the PCI address to be compatible with OVS-DPDK APIs. + * Extended statistics for physical port packet/byte counters. + * Supported IPv4 time-to-live filter. + * Converted to the new offloads API. + * Supported device removal check operation. + +* **Updated mlx4 driver.** + + Updated the mlx4 driver including the following changes: + + * Enabled compilation as a plugin, thus removed the mandatory dependency with rdma-core. + With the special compilation, the rdma-core libraries will be loaded only in case + Mellanox device is being used. For binaries creation the PMD can be enabled, still not + requiring from every end user to install rdma-core. + * Improved data path performance. + * Converted to the new offloads API. + * Supported device removal check operation. + * **Added the ixgbe ethernet driver to support RSS with flow API.** Rte_flow actually defined to include RSS, but till now, RSS is out of