doc: update release note for iavf AVX2 feature

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Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Series doc: update release note for iavf AVX2 feature |

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Commit Message

Wenzhuo Lu June 29, 2023, 12:06 a.m. UTC
  Add the missed release note for iavf AVX2 feature in 23.07.

Fixes: 5712bf9d6e14 ("net/iavf: add Tx AVX2 offload path")

Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
  

Comments

Xing, Beilei July 3, 2023, 3:16 a.m. UTC | #1
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2023 8:06 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: update release note for iavf AVX2 feature
> 
> Add the missed release note for iavf AVX2 feature in 23.07.
> 
> Fixes: 5712bf9d6e14 ("net/iavf: add Tx AVX2 offload path")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.rst
> index 4459144..92c8a1d 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.rst
> @@ -200,6 +200,12 @@ New Features
> 
>    Enhanced the GRO library to support TCP packets over IPv6 network.
> 
> +* **Updated Intel iavf driver.**
> +
> +  * Added new RX and TX paths in the AVX2 code to use HW offload
> +    features. When the HW offload features are configured to be used, the
> +    offload paths are chosen automatically. In parallel the support for HW
> +    offload features was removed from the legacy AVX2 paths.
> 
>  Removed Items
>  -------------
> --
> 1.8.3.1

Acked-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
  
Thomas Monjalon July 27, 2023, 6:23 p.m. UTC | #2
> > Add the missed release note for iavf AVX2 feature in 23.07.
> > 
> > Fixes: 5712bf9d6e14 ("net/iavf: add Tx AVX2 offload path")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>

Simplified and applied.
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.rst
index 4459144..92c8a1d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.rst
@@ -200,6 +200,12 @@  New Features
 
   Enhanced the GRO library to support TCP packets over IPv6 network.
 
+* **Updated Intel iavf driver.**
+
+  * Added new RX and TX paths in the AVX2 code to use HW offload
+    features. When the HW offload features are configured to be used, the
+    offload paths are chosen automatically. In parallel the support for HW
+    offload features was removed from the legacy AVX2 paths.
 
 Removed Items
 -------------