X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?p=sliver-openvswitch.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=704513e5e15f42b33926de59f71c0c2a83f29a69;hp=92557785d984b90c4831f350542d7ca6c5424642;hb=HEAD;hpb=1839c35676b5c3a2a70e83477a6ce3d3c7d0d245 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 92557785d..704513e5e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,18 @@ -Post-v2.1.0 +Post-v2.2.0 +--------------------- + - OpenFlow 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 are now enabled by default in + ovs-vswitchd. + - Linux kernel datapath now has an exact match cache optimizing the + flow matching process. + - Datapath flows now have partially wildcarded tranport port field + matches. This reduces userspace upcalls, but increases the + number of different masks in the datapath. The kernel datapath + exact match cache removes the overhead of matching the incoming + packets with the larger number of masks, but when paired with an + older kernel module, some workloads may perform worse with the + new userspace. + +v2.2.0 - xx xxx xxx --------------------- - Internal ports are no longer brought up by default, because it should be an administrator task to bring up devices as they are @@ -13,12 +27,13 @@ Post-v2.1.0 - Upon the receipt of a SIGHUP signal, ovs-vswitchd no longer reopens its log file (it will terminate instead). Please use 'ovs-appctl vlog/reopen' instead. - - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.12. On Kernel 3.12 OVS uses tunnel - API for GRE and VXLAN. + - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.14. From Kernel 3.12 onwards OVS uses + tunnel API for GRE and VXLAN. - Added DPDK support. + - Added support for custom vlog patterns in Python -v2.1.0 - xx xxx xxxx +v2.1.0 - 19 Mar 2014 --------------------- - Address prefix tracking support for flow tables. New columns "prefixes" in OVS-DB table "Flow_Table" controls which packet