The SSE paths have been removed from the i40e, iavf and ice Intel drivers. Add a release note documenting their removal.
Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <[email protected]> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_03.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_03.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_03.rst index 15dabee7a1..a50f6ee231 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_03.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_03.rst @@ -68,6 +68,13 @@ Removed Items Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ======================================================= +* **Removed the SSE vector paths from some Intel drivers.** + + The SSE path was not widely used, so it was removed from the i40e, iavf and + ice drivers. Each of these drivers have faster vector paths (AVX2 and + AVX-512) which have feature parity with the SSE paths, and a fallback scalar + path which also has feature parity. + API Changes ----------- -- 2.43.0
