Features for Release VPP 18.10¶
This section lists those features that became available in VPP Release 18.10:
Infrastructure¶
- DPDK 18.08 Integration
- New Stats infrastructure (interface, error, node performance counters)
- Add configurable “Doug Lea malloc” support
VNET & Plugins¶
- Load balancing: support per-port VIP and all-port VIP
- Port NSH plugin to VPP
- NAT
- Configurable port range
- Virtual Fragmentation Reassembly for endpoint-dependent mode
- Client-IP based session affinity for load-balancing
- TCP MSS clamping
- Session timeout
- Bug-fixing and performance optimizations
Host stack¶
- Support for applications with multiple workers
- Support for binds from multiple app workers to same ip:port
- Switched to a message queue for io and control event notifications
- Support for eventfd based notifications as alternative to mutext-condvar pair
- VCL refactor to support async event notifications and multiple workers
- TLS async support in client for HW accleration
- Performance optimizations and bug-fixing
- A number of binary APIs will be deprecated in favor of using the event message queue. Details in the API section.