This section includes history of changes and new feature of 3 major releases back. For older releases history, please refer to the relevant firmware versions.
| Feature/Change | Description |
|---|---|
14.30.1004 | |
| Performance: Steering | Added support for a new NV config mode “icm_cache_mode_large_scale_steering” that enables less cache misses and improves performance for cases when working with many steering rules.This capability is enabled using the mlxconfig parameter "ICM_CACHE_MODE". |
| Bug Fixes | See Bug Fixes section. |
14.29.2002 | |
| Bug Fixes | See Bug Fixes section. |
14.29.1016 | |
| Ethernet wqe_too_small Mode | Added a new counter per vPort that counts the number of packets that reached the Ethernet RQ but cannot fit into the WQE due to their large size. Additionally, we added the option to control if such packet will cause “CQE with Error” or “CQE_MOCK”. |
| Counters | Added support for the cq_overrun counter. The counter represents the number of times CQs enter an error state due to overflow that occur when the device tries to post a CQE into a full CQ buffer. |
| Pause Frames from VFs | [Beta] Enabled the capability to allow Virtual Functions to send Pause Frames packets. |
| Auto-Sensing | Enabled 10/25GbE auto-sensing with 3rd party when using 10/25GbE optical cables. |
| Steering Dump | Hardware steering dump output used for debugging and troubleshooting. Please see Known Issue 2213356 for its limitations. |
14.28.2006 | |
| Cables | Added support for Rate-Select on SFP+ (AFBR-57F5UMZ-EP1) cables to raise 10GbE link speed. |
| NC-SI | Added a new NC-SI command (get_device_id) to report a unique device identifier. |
| NC-SI | Added new NC-SI commands (get_lldp_nb, set_lldp_nb) to query the current status of LLDP and to enable/disable it. |
| Bug Fixes | See Bug Fixes. |
14.28.1300 | |
| Bug Fixes | See Bug Fixes. |
14.28.1002 | |
| Power Consumption | Added mlxconfig support for power reduction:
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| Resourcedump | Added the following segments, as appeared in the PRM, to the Resource Dump:
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| NC-SI 1.2 New Command | Implemented the following new command from NS-SI 1.2 specification:
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| Parallel VF init/Teardown Performance Optimization | Improved init_hca performance in Parallel Function initialization. |
| Bug Fixes | See Bug Fixes. |
