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[dpdk-dev,2/2] doc: add vxlan and nvgre tunnel update in release notes

Message ID 20180528161222.18935-2-mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Mohammad Abdul Awal May 28, 2018, 4:12 p.m. UTC 
  Signed-off-by: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>
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 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

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John McNamara May 28, 2018, 4:52 p.m. UTC | #1 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Mohammad Abdul Awal
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2018 5:12 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Awal, Mohammad Abdul <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] doc: add vxlan and nvgre tunnel update in
> release notes
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>

Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Thomas Monjalon May 29, 2018, 10:31 a.m. UTC | #2 
> > Signed-off-by: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

Series applied, thanks

Note: moved upper to group ethdev features
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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
index 511d51908..37d102572 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_05.rst
@@ -323,6 +323,15 @@  New Features
   spawned on an as needed basis through configuration parameters passed to the
   driver of the underlying device using devargs.
 
+* **Added support for VXLAN and NVGRE tunnel endpoint.**
+
+  New actions types have been added to support encapsulation and decapsulation
+  operations for a tunnel endpoint. The new action types are
+  RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_[VXLAN/NVGRE]_ENCAP, RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_[VXLAN/NVGRE]_DECAP,
+  RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_JUMP. New item type RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_MARK has been
+  added to match a flow against a previously marked flow. It also introduced shared
+  counter to flow API to counte for a group of flows.
+
 
 API Changes
 -----------
@@ -457,6 +466,14 @@  API Changes
     redirect matching traffic to a specific physical port.
   * PORT_ID pattern item and actions were added to match and target DPDK
     port IDs at a higher level than PHY_PORT.
+  * RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_[VXLAN/NVGRE]_ENCAP action items were added to support
+    tunnel encapsulation operation for VXLAN and NVGRE type tunnel endpoint.
+  * RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_[VXLAN/NVGRE]_DECAP action items were added to support
+    tunnel decapsulation operation for VXLAN and NVGRE type tunnel endpoint.
+  * RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_JUMP action item was added to support a matched flow
+    to be redirected to the specific group.
+  * RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_MARK item type has been added to match a flow against
+    a previously marked flow.
 
 * ethdev: change flow APIs regarding count action:
   * ``rte_flow_create()`` API count action now requires the ``struct rte_flow_action_count``.