Snabb Switch 2015.04 "Itapalm"
This release introduces a new network interface device driver for Solarflare NICs of the SFN7xxx series. Itapalm also brings improvements in packet check sum offloading by exploiting SIMD features of modern processors as well a many small bug fixes and improvements to the Snabb Switch core and NFV components.
Major Changes
- #409 #404 Added Solarflare NIC device driver
- #411 #414 Added SIMD based check sum calculation
- #403 Implemented Stateful/Stateless Packet Filtering a per Neutron API
Minor Changes
- #433 Measure throughput in "frees per second" and perform dynamic idling
- #430 Added keyed IPv6 tunnel to the
lib.protocolframework - #427 Rudimentary support for ifTable MIB in Intel10G driver
- #412 Added a new mtu=1500/iperf based benchmark
- #407 PacketFilter: Allow ARP packets through for IP rules
- #396 #400 #399 #397 #398 #392 #413 #423 #415 #417 #416 #418 #420 #419 #421 #422 #423 #428 #429 #431 #426 #437 #434 #435 Various bug fixes, minor improvements and performance improvements