NVIDIA DOCA Glossary
Term |
Description |
ACS |
Access control services |
ASAP 2 |
Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing |
ASN |
Autonomous system number |
ATF |
Arm-trusted firmware |
BAR |
Base address register |
BDF address |
Bus, device, function address. This is the device's PCIe bus address to uniquely identify the specific device. |
BFB |
BlueField bootstream |
BGP |
Border gateway protocol |
BMC |
Board management controller |
BUF |
Buffer |
BSP |
BlueField support package |
CBS |
Committed burst size |
CIR |
Committed information rate |
CMDQ |
Command queue |
CPDS |
Control pipe dynamic size |
CQE |
Completion queue events |
CTX |
Context |
DEK |
Data encryption key |
DMA |
Direct memory access |
DOCA |
DPU SDK |
DPA |
Data path accelerator; a n auxiliary processor designed to accelerate data-path operations |
DPCP |
Direct packet control plane |
DPDK |
Data plane development kit |
DPI |
Deep packet inspection |
DPIF |
Datapath offload interface |
DPU |
Data processing unit, the third pillar of the data center with CPU and GPU. BlueField is available as a DPU and as a SuperNIC. |
DW |
Dword |
EBS |
Excess burst size |
ECE |
Enhanced connection establishment |
ECPF |
Embedded CPU physical function |
EIR |
Excess information rate |
eMMC |
Embedded multi-media card |
ESP |
EFI system partition |
ESP header |
Encapsulating security payload |
EU |
Execution unit. HW thread; a logical DPA processing unit. |
FLR |
Function level reset |
FIPS |
Federal Information Processing Standards |
FPGA |
Field-programmable gate arrays |
FW |
Firmware |
GDAKIN |
GPUDirect async kernel-initiated network |
GDB |
GNU debugger |
HCA |
Host-channel adapter |
Host |
When referring to "the host" this documentation is referring to the server host. When referring to the Arm based host, the documentation will specifically call out "Arm host".
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HW |
Hardware |
hwmon |
Hardware monitoring |
IB |
InfiniBand |
ICM |
Interface configuration memory |
ICV |
Integrity check value |
IDE |
Integrated development environment |
IKE |
Internet key exchange |
IR |
Intermediate representation |
IRQ |
Interrupt request |
KPI |
Key performance indicator |
LRO |
Large receive offload |
LSO |
Large send offload |
LTO |
Link-time optimization |
MFT |
Mellanox firmware tools |
MLNX_OFED |
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution |
MPU |
Message passing interface |
MSB |
Most significant bit |
MSI-X |
Message signaled interrupts extended |
MSS |
Maximum segment size |
MSS |
Memory subsystem |
MST |
Mellanox software tools |
MTU |
Maximum transmission unit |
NAT |
Network address translation |
NIC |
Network interface card |
NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NS |
Namespace |
NUMA |
Non-uniform memory access |
OOB |
Out-of-band |
OS |
Operating system |
OVS |
Open vSwitch |
PBA |
Pending bit array |
PBS |
Peak burst size |
PCIe |
PCI Express; Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
PF |
Physical function |
PE |
Progress engine |
PHC |
Physical hardware clock |
PIR |
Peak information rate |
PK |
Platform key |
PKA |
Public key accelerator |
POC |
Proof of concept |
PUD |
Process under debug |
RD |
Route distinguisher |
RDMA |
Remote direct memory access |
RegEx |
Regular expression |
REQ |
Request |
RES |
Response |
RN |
Request node RN-F – Fully coherent request node RN-D – IO coherent request node with DVM support RN-I – IO coherent request node |
RNG |
Random number generator/generation |
RoCE |
Ethernet and RDMA over converged Ethernet |
RQ |
Receive queue |
RShim |
Random shim |
RSP |
Remote serial protocol |
RT |
Route target |
RTOS |
Real-time operating system |
RTT |
Round-trip time |
RX |
Receive |
RXP |
Regular expression processor |
SA |
Security association |
SBSA |
Server base system architecture |
SDK |
Software development kit |
SF |
Sub-function or scalable function |
SFC |
Services function chaining |
SG |
Scatter-gather |
SHA |
Secure hash algorithm |
SNAP |
Storage-defined network-accelerated processing |
SPDK |
Storage performance development kit |
SPI |
Security parameters index |
SQ |
Send queue |
SR-IOV |
Single-root IO virtualization |
SuperNIC |
a configuration of a DPU that is specific for E-W networking. BlueField has a SuperNIC configuration |
SVI |
Switch virtual interface |
Sync event |
Synchronization event |
TAI |
International Atomic Time |
TIR |
Transport interface receive |
TIS |
Transport interface send |
TLS |
Transport layer security |
TSO |
TCP segmentation offload |
TX |
Transmit |
UDS |
Unix domain socket |
UEFI |
Unified extensible firmware interface |
UTC |
Coordinated Universal Time |
vDPA |
Virtual data path acceleration |
VF |
Virtual function |
VFE |
Virtio full emulation |
VM |
Virtual machine |
VMA |
NVIDIA® Messaging Accelerator |
VNI |
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VPI |
Virtual protocol interconnect |
VRF |
Virtual routing and forwarding |
VTEP |
VXLAN tunnel endpoint |
WorkQ or workq |
Work queue |
WQE |
Work queue elements |
WR |
Write |
XLIO |
NVIDIA® Accelerated IO |