DOCA Documentation v1.5.1 LTS

Release Notes

NVIDIA DOCA Release Notes

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

DOCA 1.5.1 is an LTS update to DOCA 1.5 which includes feature completion and bug fixes from DOCA 1.5.0.

The following are the main fixes in this release:

  • Rocky Linux fixes
  • App Shield fixes
  • Compression compilation fix
  • PKA engine fix
  • RedHat 8.2 installation fix

The following items complete feature delivery of DOCA 1.5.0:

  • Support Rocky Linux on DPU and host (Comm Channel not supported)
  • Support CentOS 8.2 on DPU and host
  • GA support for DOCA BlueMan service
  • Beta support for IPsec tunnel mode and Security Gateway reference application

Refer to the NVIDIA DOCA Installation Guide for Linux for information on:

  • Setting up NVIDIA DOCA SDK on your BlueField DPU
  • Supported BlueField platforms

4.1. DOCA Packages

Device Component Version Description

Host

DOCA SDK 1.5.1 Software development kit package for developing host software
DOCA Runtime 1.5.1 Runtime libraries required to run DOCA-based software applications on host
DOCA Tools 1.5.1 Tools for developers and administrators on host

Arm emulated (QEMU) development container

3.9.3.1 Linux-based BlueField Arm emulated container for developers

Target BlueField-2 DPU (Arm)

BlueField BSP 3.9.3.1 BlueField image and firmware
DOCA SDK 1.5.1 Software development kit packages for developing Arm software
DOCA Runtime 1.5.1 Runtime libraries requied to run DOCA-based software applications on Arm
DOCA Tools 1.5.1 Tools for developers and administrators for Arm target

4.2. Supported Operating System

The operating system supported on the BlueField DPU is Ubuntu 20.04. The following operating systems are supported on the host machine:

  • Ubuntu 18.04/20.04/22.04
  • CentOS/RHEL 7.6/8.0/8.2
  • Rocky 8.6
  • Debian 10.8

4.3. Supported Kernel Versions

Note:

Only the following generic kernel versions are supported for DOCA local repo package for host installation (whether by SDKM or manually).

Host Operation System Kernel Support Arch Support
CentOS 7.6 4.14.0-115.el7a.aarch64 aarch64
3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64 x86
CentOS 8.0 4.18.0-80.el8.x86_64
CentOS 8.2 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64
RHEL 7.6 3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64
RHEL 8.0 4.18.0-80.el8.x86_64
RHEL 8.2 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64
Rocky 8.6 4.18.0-372.9.1.el8.x86_64
Ubuntu 18.04 4.15.0-20-generic
Ubuntu 20.04 5.4.0-26-generic
Ubuntu 22.04 5.15.0-52-generic
Debian 10.8 4.19.0-14-amd64

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

Reference Description
3282113 Description: Some DPUs experience AN issue with the clock settings after installing a BlueField OS in an HBN setting in which the date reverts back to "Thu Sep 8, 2022".
Workaround: Issue the following commands to enable NTP and sync the clock:
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sudo apt update sudo apt install ntp sudo systemctl stop ntp sudo systemctl disable ntp sudo systemctl enable ntp@mgmt sudo systemctl start ntp@mgmt sudo systemctl daemon-reload sudo systemctl status ntp@mgmt

Keyword: HBN; Time; NTP
Reported in version: 1.5.1
3274589 Description: To install DOCA on an Ubuntu 22.04 host, use the following command:
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apt-get install doca-runtime doca-sdk doca-tools openvswitch-switch -y

Workaround: N/A
Keyword: Installation; Ubuntu 22.04; OVS; openvswitch-switch
Reported in version: 1.5.1
3274589 Description: Comm channel fails to initiated in Rocky Linux.
Workaround: N/A
Keyword: Comm channel; Rocky
Reported in version: 1.5.1
3270534 Description: The Security Gateway reference application fails to forward traffic when used with a ConnectX setup in full-offload mode.
Workaround: Change the number of queues passed to doca_flow_init() at the application level instead of using the current value.
Keyword: Security Gateway; IPSec; flow
Reported in version: 1.5.1
3264749 Description: In Rocky and CentOS 8.2 inbox-kernel BFBs, RegEx requires the following extra huge page configuration for it to function properly:
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sudo hugeadm --pool-pages-min DEFAULT:2048M sudo systemctl start mlx-regex.service systemctl status mlx-regex.service

If these commands have executed successfully you should see active (running) in the last line of the output.

Workaround: N/A
Keyword: RegEx; hugepages
Reported in version: 1.5.1
3168683 Description: If many interfaces are participating in EVPN/routing, it is possible for the routing process to run out of memory.
Workaround: Have a maximum of 8 VF interfaces participating in routing/VXLAN.
Keyword: HBN; routing; memory
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3240785 Description: DTS might fail to connect to DPE if started after DTS is already running.
Workaround: Start the DTS container only after starting DPE.
Keyword: DTS; DPE; BlueMan
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3250391 Description: dpdk_queues_and_ports_init fails when given 0 DPDK ports.
Workaround: N/A
Keyword: doca_dpi_grpc server; DPDK
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3219539 Description: TC rules are programmed by OVS to map uplink and host representor ports to HBN service. These rules are ageable and can result in packets needing to get software forwarded periodically to refresh the rules.
Workaround: The timeout value can be adjusted by changing the OVS parameter other_config : max-idle as documented here. The shipped default value is 10000ms (10s).
Keyword: HBN; SFC; aging
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3184745 Description: The command nv show interface <intf> acl does not show correct information if there are multiple ACLs bound to the interface.
Workaround: Use the command nv show interface <intf> to view the ACLs bound to an interface.
Keyword: HBN; ACLs
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3158934 Description: Deleting an NVUE user by removing their password file and restarting the decrypt-user-add service on the HBN container does not work.
Workaround: Either respawn the container after deleting the file, or delete the password file corresponding to the user by running userdel -r username.
Keyword: HBN; user deletion
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3191433 Description: ECMP selection for the underlay path uses the ingress port and identifies uplink ports via round robin. This may not result in uniform spread of the traffic.
Workaround: N/A
Keyword: HBN; ECMP
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3185003 Description: When a packet is encapsulated with a VXLAN header, it adds extra bytes which may cause the packet to exceed the MTU of link. Typically, the packet would be fragmented but its silently dropped and no fragmentation happens.
Workaround: Make sure that the MTU on the uplink port is always 50 bytes more than host ports so that even after adding VXLAN headers, ingress packets do not exceed the MTU.
Keyword: HBN; MTU; VXLAN
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3184905 Description: On VXLAN encapsulation, the DF flag is not propagated to the outer header. Such a packet may be truncated when forwarded in the kernel, and it may be dropped when hardware offloaded.
Workaround: Make sure that the MTU on the uplink port is always 50 bytes more than host ports so that even after adding VXLAN headers, ingress packets do not exceed the MTU.
Keyword: HBN; VXLAN
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3188688 Description: When stopping the container using the command crictl stop an error may be reported because the command uses a timeout of 0 which is not enough to stop all the processes in the HBN container.
Workaround: Pass a timeout value when stopping the HBN container by running:
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crictl stop --timeout 60 <hbn-container>

Keyword: HBN; timeout
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3129749 Description: The same ACL rule cannot be applied in both the inbound and outbound direction on a port.
Workaround: N/A
Keyword: HBN; ACLs
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3126560 Description: The system's time zone cannot be modified using NVUE in the HBN container.
Workaround: The timezone can be manually changed by symlinking the /etc/localtime file to a binary time zone's identifier in the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory. For example:
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sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime

Keyword: HBN; time zone; NVUE
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3118204 Description: Auto-BGP functionality (where the ASN does not need to be configured but is dynamically inferred by the system based on the system's role as a leaf or spine device) is not supported on HBN.
Workaround: If BGP is configured and used on HBN, the BGP ASN must be manually configured.
Keyword: HBN; BGP
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3233088 Description: Since checksum calculation is offloaded to the hardware (not done by the kernel), it is expected to see an incorrect checksum in the tcpdump for locally generated, outgoing packets. BGP keepalives and updates are some of the packets that show such incorrect checksum in tcpdump.
Workaround: N/A
Keyword: HBN; BGP
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3240153 Description: DOCA kernel support only works on a non-default kernel.
Workaround: N/A
Keyword: Kernel
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3239668 Description: The l2_reflector reference application fails to start due to missing libflexio.so library.
Workaround: Define LD_LIBRARY_PATH as specified in the NVIDIA DOCA Troubleshooting Guide.
Keyword: FlexIO; DOCA applications; l2_reflector
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3239630 Description: FlexIO sample flexio_rpc fails to compile.
Workaround: Add the following at line 34 in the file /opt/mellanox/doca/samples/flexio/flexio_rpc/meson.build:
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source_file = meson.current_source_dir() + '/device/flexio_rpc_device.c'

Keyword: FlexIO; DOCA samples; flexio_rpc
Reported in version: 1.5.0
3217627 Description: The doca_devinfo_rep_list_create API returns success on the host instead of "Operation not supported".
Workaround: N/A
Keyword: DOCA core; InfiniBand
Reported in version: 1.5.0
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: 1.3.0
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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auto p0 iface p0 auto p1 iface p1

Keyword: HBN; unsupported NVUE commands
Reported in version: 1.3.0
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: 1.3.0
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: 1.3.0
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: 1.3.0

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