DOCA Glossary
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Term |
Description |
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ACS |
Access control services |
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ASAP2 |
Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing |
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ASN |
Autonomous system number |
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ATF |
Arm-trusted firmware |
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BAR |
Base address register |
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BDF address |
Bus, device, function address. This is the device's PCIe bus address to uniquely identify the specific device. |
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BFB |
BlueField bootstream |
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BGP |
Border gateway protocol |
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BMC |
Board management controller |
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BUF |
Buffer |
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BSP |
BlueField support package |
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CBS |
Committed burst size |
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CIR |
Committed information rate |
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CMDQ |
Command queue |
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CPDS |
Control pipe dynamic size |
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CQE |
Completion queue events |
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CTX |
Context |
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DEK |
Data encryption key |
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DMA |
Direct memory access |
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DOCA |
DPU SDK |
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DPA |
Data path accelerator; a n auxiliary processor designed to accelerate data-path operations |
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DPCP |
Direct packet control plane |
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DPDK |
Data plane development kit |
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DPI |
Deep packet inspection |
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DPIF |
Datapath offload interface |
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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. |
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DW |
Dword |
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EBS |
Excess burst size |
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ECE |
Enhanced connection establishment |
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ECMP |
Equal-cost multi-path |
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ECPF |
Embedded CPU physical function |
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EIR |
Excess information rate |
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EM |
Exact match |
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eMMC |
Embedded multi-media card |
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ESP |
EFI system partition |
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ESP |
Encapsulating security payload |
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EU |
Execution unit. HW thread; a logical DPA processing unit. |
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FLR |
Function level reset |
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FIFO |
First-in-first-out |
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FIPS |
Federal Information Processing Standards |
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FPGA |
Field-programmable gate arrays |
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FW |
Firmware |
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GDAKIN |
GPUDirect async kernel-initiated network |
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GDB |
GNU debugger |
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HCA |
Host-channel adapter |
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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 |
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hwmon |
Hardware monitoring |
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IB |
InfiniBand |
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ICM |
Interface configuration memory |
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ICV |
Integrity check value |
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IDE |
Integrated development environment |
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IKE |
Internet key exchange |
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IR |
Intermediate representation |
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IRQ |
Interrupt request |
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KPI |
Key performance indicator |
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LRO |
Large receive offload |
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LSO |
Large send offload |
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LTO |
Link-time optimization |
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MFT |
Mellanox firmware tools |
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MLNX_OFED |
Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution |
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MPU |
Message passing interface |
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MSB |
Most significant bit |
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MSI-X |
Message signaled interrupts extended |
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MSS |
Maximum segment size |
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MSS |
Memory subsystem |
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MST |
Mellanox software tools |
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MTU |
Maximum transmission unit |
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NAT |
Network address translation |
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NIC |
Network interface card |
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NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
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NP |
Notification point |
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NS |
Namespace |
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NUMA |
Non-uniform memory access |
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OOB |
Out-of-band |
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OS |
Operating system |
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OVS |
Open vSwitch |
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PAT |
Port address translation |
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PBA |
Pending bit array |
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PBS |
Peak burst size |
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PCIe |
PCI Express; Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
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PF |
Physical function |
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PE |
Progress engine |
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PHC |
Physical hardware clock |
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PIR |
Peak information rate |
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PK |
Platform key |
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PKA |
Public key accelerator |
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POC |
Proof of concept |
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PUD |
Process under debug |
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RD |
Route distinguisher |
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RDMA |
Remote direct memory access |
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RDMA CM |
RDMA connection manager |
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RegEx |
Regular expression |
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REQ |
Request |
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RES |
Response |
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RN |
Request node RN-F – Fully coherent request node RN-D – IO coherent request node with DVM support RN-I – IO coherent request node |
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RNG |
Random number generator/generation |
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RoCE |
Ethernet and RDMA over converged Ethernet |
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RP |
Reaction point |
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RQ |
Receive queue |
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RShim |
Random shim |
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RSP |
Remote serial protocol |
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RT |
Route target |
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RTOS |
Real-time operating system |
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RTT |
Round-trip time |
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RX |
Receive |
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RXP |
Regular expression processor |
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SA |
Security association |
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SBSA |
Server base system architecture |
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SDK |
Software development kit |
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SF |
Sub-function or scalable function |
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SFC |
Service function chaining (HBN) |
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SG |
Scatter-gather |
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SHA |
Secure hash algorithm |
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SN |
Sequence number |
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SNAP |
Storage-defined network-accelerated processing |
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SNAT |
Source NAT |
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SPDK |
Storage performance development kit |
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SPI |
Security parameters index |
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SQ |
Send queue |
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SR-IOV |
Single-root IO virtualization |
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SuperNIC |
a configuration of a DPU that is specific for E-W networking. BlueField has a SuperNIC configuration |
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SVI |
Switch virtual interface |
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Sync event |
Synchronization event |
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TAI |
International Atomic Time |
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TIR |
Transport interface receive |
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TIS |
Transport interface send |
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TLS |
Transport layer security |
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TSO |
TCP segmentation offload |
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TX |
Transmit |
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UDS |
Unix domain socket |
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UEFI |
Unified extensible firmware interface |
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UTC |
Coordinated Universal Time |
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vDPA |
Virtual data path acceleration |
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VF |
Virtual function |
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VFE |
Virtio full emulation |
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VM |
Virtual machine |
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VMA |
NVIDIA® Messaging Accelerator |
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VNI |
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VPI |
Virtual protocol interconnect |
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VRF |
Virtual routing and forwarding |
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VTEP |
VXLAN tunnel endpoint |
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WorkQ or workq |
Work queue |
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WQE |
Work queue elements |
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WR |
Write |
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XLIO |
NVIDIA® Accelerated IO |