[v2,10/10] net/bnxt: update release notes for bnxt

Message ID 20190524144935.18765-11-lance.richardson@broadcom.com (mailing list archive)
State Changes Requested, archived
Delegated to: Ferruh Yigit
Headers
Series bnxt patchset |

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Commit Message

Lance Richardson May 24, 2019, 2:49 p.m. UTC
  From: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>

Update release doc briefly describing updates to bnxt PMD.

Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
  

Comments

Ferruh Yigit May 28, 2019, 9:15 a.m. UTC | #1
On 5/24/2019 3:49 PM, Lance Richardson wrote:
> From: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
> 
> Update release doc briefly describing updates to bnxt PMD.

It is better to keep the doc update with the feature patch, instead of a
separate doc patch. Can you please distribute content of this patch into
relevant patches?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
> index b9510f93a..2ff9d4b1c 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
> @@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ New Features
>       Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
>       =========================================================
>  
> +* **Updated the bnxt PMD.**
> +
> +  Updated the bnxt PMD. The major enhancements include:
> +  * Update HWRM version to 1.10.74
> +  * Added vector RX/TX

We have x86(SSE/AVX2/AVX512), Arm (neon) & PPC (altivec) vectorization support
in DPDK, can you please detail what is added.

> +  * Performance optimizations in non-vector Tx path
>  
>  Removed Items
>  -------------
>
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
index b9510f93a..2ff9d4b1c 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@  New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
      =========================================================
 
+* **Updated the bnxt PMD.**
+
+  Updated the bnxt PMD. The major enhancements include:
+  * Update HWRM version to 1.10.74
+  * Added vector RX/TX
+  * Performance optimizations in non-vector Tx path
 
 Removed Items
 -------------