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authorLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2018-11-01 11:59:50 +0000
committerLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2018-11-01 12:00:19 +0000
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New upstream version 18.11-rc1upstream/18.11-rc1
Change-Id: Iaa71986dd6332e878d8f4bf493101b2bbc6313bb Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
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@@ -163,6 +163,15 @@ Runtime Config Options
Currently hot-plugging of representor ports is not supported so all required
representors must be specified on the creation of the PF.
+- ``Use latest supported vector`` (default ``disable``)
+
+ Latest supported vector path may not always get the best perf so vector path was
+ recommended to use only on later platform. But users may want the latest vector path
+ since it can get better perf in some real work loading cases. So ``devargs`` param
+ ``use-latest-supported-vec`` is introduced, for example::
+
+ -w 84:00.0,use-latest-supported-vec=1
+
Driver compilation and testing
------------------------------
@@ -421,6 +430,12 @@ functionality requires a NIC firmware version of 6.0 or greater.
Current implementation supports GTP-C/GTP-U/PPPoE/PPPoL2TP,
steering can be used with rte_flow API.
+GTPv1 package is released, and it can be downloaded from
+https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27587.
+
+PPPoE package is released, and it can be downloaded from
+https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28040.
+
Load a profile which supports GTP and store backup profile:
.. code-block:: console