DOCA Documentation v1.3

Release Notes

NVIDIA DOCA Release Notes

NVIDIA DOCA SDK release notes containing information on new features, bug fixes, and known issues.

The NVIDIA® DOCA SDK is a software suite supporting the NVIDIA® BlueField®-2 DPU device.

1.1. Installation Notes

Refer to the NVIDIA DOCA Installation Guide for information on:

  • Setting up NVIDIA® DOCA SDK on your NVIDIA® BlueField®-2 DPU
  • Supported BlueField-2 platforms
  • Supported host operating systems
  • Package contents

1.2. Technical Support

Customers who purchased products directly from NVIDIA are invited to contact us on the NVIDIA Support website.

  • New libraries
    • Arg parser
    • Comm channel
    • DMA
    • RegEx
    • Core
  • New applications
    • Allreduce – UCX based application
    • App Shield agent
    • Firewall - DOCA flow-based gRPC application
    • Secure channel
  • New samples
    • AppShield
    • Comm channel
    • DMA
    • DPI
    • Flow
    • RegEx
    • Telemetry
  • New services
    • Flow Inspector
    • HBN
      Note:

      Compatible with DOCA 1.3 (BlueField software 3.9) and above.

    • DOCA and CUDA development container
    • DOCA and CUDA base runtime container
    • DOCA and CUDA full runtime container
  • New tools
    • apsh_config
  • Libraries enhancements
    • Telemetry
    • Flow
      • HWS
      • Modes – VNF, Remote-VNF, Switch
      • Metadata
    • AppShield
      • Added beta-level support for AppShield library
  • Application enhancements
    • Application Recognition – added support for connection tracking
    • URL Filter – added support for connection tracking
    • IPS – added support for connection tracking
    • DNS Filter
      • Added support for DOCA RegEx
      • Added support for NVIDIA® Converged Accelerator
    • East-west overlay encryption – added automation script
    • L4 OVS Firewall – added automation script
  • Service enhancements
    • Telemetry
    • DOCA Development Container
    • DOCA Runtime Container
    • Application Recognition
    • URL Filter
    • IPS

  • DOCA Overview
  • Programming Guides
    • Programming Guide Overview
    • Arg Parser Programming Guide
    • UCX Programming Guide
  • Applications
    • Applications Overview
    • Allreduce
    • AppShield Agent
    • Firewall
    • Secure Channel
  • Samples
    • AppShield
    • Comm Channel
    • DMA
    • DPI
    • Flow
    • RegEx
    • Telemetry Samples
  • Tools
    • Tools Overview
  • Miscellaneous
    • Troubleshooting
  • Services
    • Services Overview
    • Flow Inspector
    • HBN

The following table lists the known issues and limitations for this release of DOCA SDK.

Reference Description
3048250 Description: When configuring the DPU to operate in NIC Mode, the following parameters must be set to default (i.e., =0): HIDE_PORT2_PF, NVME_EMULATION_ENABLE, and VIRTIO_NET_EMULATION_ENABLE.
Workaround: N/A
Keyword: DPU operation mode
Reported in version: 1.3
3049879 Description: When reloading (ifreload) an empty /etc/network/interfaces file, the previously created interfaces are not deleted.
Workaround: To delete all previously created interfaces, at least one interface must be present in /etc/network/interfaces. The following configuration can be used as a safe "empty" file to delete all other virtual devices:
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Keyword: HBN; unsupported NVUE commands
Reported in version: 1.3
2821785 Description: Due to disabled backend foundation units, some commands show 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR/ 404 NOT FOUND. These commands are related to features or sub-systems which are not supported on HBN.
Workaround: N/A
Keyword: HBN; unsupported NVUE commands
Reported in version: 1.3
2821785 Description: MAC addresses are not learned in the hardware but only in software. This may affect performance in pure L2 unicast traffic. This should not affect performance of IPv4/IPv6 traffic or L2 control traffic (i.e., STP, LLDP).
Workaround: N/A
Keyword: HBN
Reported in version: 1.3
2828838 Description: NetworkManager and other services not directly related to HBN may display the following message in syslog:
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"netlink: read: too many netlink events. Need to resynchronize platform cache"

The message has no functional impact and may be ignored.
Workaround: N/A
Keyword: HBN
Reported in version: 1.3
3042811 Description: The DOCA API cannot be selected on the host (-d doca). RXPBench is not compiled against the DOCA API and therefore will fail to switch to using that API on the host. This option is available on the DPU.
Workaround: After ensuring that all required DOCA libraries are installed, build RXPBench from the source on the host to enable this functionality.
Keyword: RXPBench; host; tools
Reported in version: 1.3

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