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@cardigliano cardigliano released this 19 Oct 12:45
· 27 commits to 7.8.0-stable since this release
7.8.0
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PF_RING Library

  • Add support for Device ID and Port ID to the extended packet header
  • Add Arista 7150 Series hw timestamps support (keyframes and packet trailer parsing and stripping)
  • Add Metawatch Metamako hw timestamps support (packet trailer parsing and stripping)
  • errno EINTR is now returned on breakloop
  • Improve XDP support
  • Replace configure --enable-xdp with --disable-xdp (XDP enabled by default when supported)

ZC Library

  • New PF_RING_ZC_DEVICE_METAWATCH_TIMESTAMP flag to enable Metawatch hw timestamps
  • New pfring_zc_get_pool_id API to get the Pool ID
  • New pfring_zc_run_balancer_v2 pfring_zc_run_fanout_v2 APIs to support filtering functions
  • BPF support in ZC interfaces, standard interfaces and SPSC queues
  • Add support for BPF in TX queues
  • Builtin GTP hash now expose GTP info (flags)
  • Fix CRC strip on ixgbevf
  • FT Library
  • New pfring_ft_flow_get_id API to get the flow ID
  • New PFRING_FT_IGNORE_HW_HASH flag to ignore hw packet hash
  • New PKT_FLAGS_FLOW_OFFLOAD_1ST packet flag (first packet of a flow)
  • Add support for flow slicing
  • New API pfring_ft_flow_get_users to get flow users (in case of slicing)
  • Improve application protocol detection
  • Fix bogus-IP headers parsing

PF_RING-aware Libpcap/Tcpdump

  • New libpcap v.191
  • New tcpdump v.4.9.3
  • stats.ps_recv now includes packets dropped due to out of buffer space

PF_RING Kernel Module

  • Fix channels with standard drivers
  • Fix 64-bit channel mask
  • Fix defragmentation of packets with ethernet padding
  • Fix unnecessary device mapping causing ifindex exhaustion

PF_RING Capture Modules

  • Update support for Fiberblaze adapters
  • Fix filtering with Accolade adapters

ZC Drivers

  • New ice ZC driver supporting E800 Series Intel adapters
  • Support for Ubuntu 20 LTS
  • Support for CentOS/RedHat 8.2
  • Fix queue attach/detach in ixgbe-zc
  • Support for kernel 5.4

nBPF

  • Add support for matching Local/Remote IP (new extended-BPF primitives)
  • Support uppercase AND/OR in extended-BPF filters
  • Fix extended-BPF grammar

Examples

  • New zfilter_mq_ipc sample app (packet filtering with multiple threads and fanout to multiple consumer processes)
  • ftflow:
    • New -H option to ignore hw hash setting PFRING_FT_IGNORE_HW_HASH
    • New -t option to print stats only
  • ftflow_dpdk
    • New -l option to run loopback tests
    • Add RX/TX ring size configuration
  • pfsend:
    • New -z option to precompute randomized sequence
    • New -W ID[,ID] option to forge VLAN and QinQ VLAN
  • zbalance_ipc:
    • New -x option to filter by VLAN ID
    • Add ability to set BPF to egress queues
    • Add ability to refresh BPF filters at runtime
    • New -G : option to forward GTP-C traffic to a specific queue
  • New zcount -f option to set BPF filters
  • New pfcount -F option (do not strip FCS)
  • New zcount/zcount_ipc -t option to read the packet payload
  • New pcount -e option to set the capture direction
  • Add VLAN to the flows dumped by ftflow
  • Fix transmission of small packets (less than 60 bytes)
  • Fix CPU affinity in ZC sample applications

Misc

  • Handle failures in service restart during package updates
  • Add linux headers dependency to the pfring-dkms package
  • Add actual version/revision to pfring-drivers-zc-dkms packages
  • Fix installed .so library and links
  • Fix ZC DAQ compilation and API update
  • Fix service scripts to avoid command injections
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