The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the current version of the release.For the list of old known issues, please refer to NVIDIA OFED Archived Known Issues file at http://www.mellanox.com/pdf/prod_software/MLNX_OFED_Archived_Known_Issues.pdf
| Internal Ref. Number | Issue |
|---|---|
2939037 | Description: Ethtool that is part of the original OFED package failed to dump correct EEPROM values when using -m flag. |
| Workaround: Use mlxreg tool instead. | |
| Keywords: Ethtool, EEPROM | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
2688191 | Description: The minimum Tx rate limit is not supported with link speed of 1Gb/s. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Rate Limit, 1Gb/s | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
2870299 | Description: Managing SFs is possible using the iproute2 with mlxdevm tool only. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Scalable Functions | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
2869722 | Description: OFED packages were built with DKMS disabled since building OFED with DKMS failed due to a problem in the DKMS package on UOS. --dkms flag should not be used. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Installation, DKMS | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
2870367 | Description: On UOS, IPoIB PKEY may require manual bring up after driver restart. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Installation, IPoIB, PKEY | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
2836032 | Description: When using Software steering mlx5dv_dr API to create rules containing encapsulation actions in MLNX_OFED v5.5-1.x.x.x, upgrade firmware to the latest version. Otherwise, the maximum number of encapsulation actions that can be created will be limited to only 16K, and degradation for the rule insertion rate is expected compared to MLNX_OFED v5.4-.x.x.x.x. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Software Steering | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
2851639 | Description: Enabling ARFS in legacy mode and then moving to switchdev mode is not supported and may cause unwanted behavior. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: NetDev, ARFS | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
2851639 | Description: nvme and iser are not enabled on UOS ARM, because of missing UOS kernel support. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: nvme, iser, UOS ARM | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
2860855 | Description: Building OFED on RHEL 8.4 with kmp disabled and then installing with yum fails due to some conflicting packages. |
| Workaround: Remove libfabric and librpmem packages before OFED installation,or add --allowerasing option to the installation command. | |
| Keywords: Installation, RHEL 8.4, kmp, yum | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 | |
2865983 | Description: OFED packages were built with kmp disabled. Building with kmp enabled fails due to missing packages. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Installation, kmp | |
Discovered in Release: 5.5-1.0.3.2 |
| Internal Ref. Number | Issue |
|---|---|
2658644 | Description: Only match on lower 32 bit of ct_label is supported. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ASAP2, Connection Tracking | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
2706345 | Description: Number of RQ and TIR allocation in the driver depends on total number of MSI-X vectors allocated. Total number of TIRs supported by device is 16K range. Each representor needs number of CPUs worth TIRs, upto maximum of 128. |
| Workaround: To use large number of VFs, set PF_NUM_PF_MSIX to a smaller value of around 32. | |
| Keywords: ASAP2,VF, PF_NUM_PF_MSIX | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
2836997 | Description: An automatic test that checks a flow meter rate fluctuation stays within a fixed threshold (e.g., 10%) may fail because meter precision is dependent on multiple factors (i.e., rate and burst values and shape of the traffic). To pick the best configuration parameters for a flow meter, perform a couple of test measurements using different values of burst size against expected traffic workload and average the results over an extended period of time (tens of minutes). |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ASAP2,Meter Threshold | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
2863456 | Description: SA limit by packet count (hard and soft) are supported only on traffic originated from the ECPF. Trying to configure them on VF traffic will remove the SA when hard limit is hit, however traffic could still pass as plain text due to the tunnel offload that is used in such configuration. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ASAP2, IPsec Full Offload | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-0.5.1.1 | |
2657392 | Description: OFED installation caused CIFS to break in RHEL8.4 and RHEL8.5. A dummy module was added so that CIFS will be disabled after OFED installation in RHEL8.4 and RHEL8.5. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Installation, RHEL8.4, RHEL8.5, CIFS | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-0.5.1.1 | |
2800993 | Description: OpenMPI does not support running across different operating systems and/or CPU architectures. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: OpenMPI | |
2399503 | Description: Open vSwitch is not supported on the latest operating systems containing only Python3 support. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Python, Open vSwitch | |
2657392 | Description: OFED installation caused CIFS to break in RHEL8.4. A dummy module was added so that CIFS will be disabled after OFED installation in RHEL8.4. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Installation, RHEL8.4, CIFS | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-0.5.1.1 | |
2782406 | Description: Running yum update will upgrade kylin-release to a higher version. The version of this package is used for kylin10sp2 detection so the script will detect kylin 10 instead of kylin10sp2 and use its repository by mistake. |
| Workaround: Because there are no special cases for kylin10sp2, the repository that was detected with adding --add-kernel-support to the installation command can be used. | |
| Keywords: Upgrade, kylin | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-3.0.3.0 | |
2752622 | Description: On SLES 15, the inbox modules in the directory mlxsw (such as mlxsw_spectrum) are not supported. If they are installed when installing MLNX_OFED, they will no longer work (as they depend on a different version of the mlx* modules) and may cause an error at time of installation. |
Workaround: Either remove the package kernel-default-extra or manually remove them: rm /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/*.ko | |
| Keywords: Installation | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-3.0.3.0 | |
2755632 | Description: On dual port cards with SR-IOV, when one port link is configured to InfiniBand and the other port link is configured to Ethernet, the Ethernet port will not be able to support VST and QinQ. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: SR-IOV, VST, QinQ | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-3.0.3.0 | |
2780436 | Description: Non-default MTU (>1500) is not supported with IPsec crypto offload and may cause packet drops. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: IPsec, Crypto Offload, MTU | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-3.0.3.0 | |
2726021 | Description: Building packages on openEuler with kmp enabled requires kernel-rpm-macros package installed. kernel-rpm-macros-30-13.oe1 does not support -p option and kernel-rpm-macros-30-18.oe1 should be installed instead. On kylin OS, the version of kernel-rpm-macros package does not support -p option needed to support kmp, so it will stay disabled. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Installation, openEuler | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-3.0.3.0 |
| Internal Ref. Number | Issue |
|---|---|
2750653 | Description: Running fragmented traffic in RHEL 8.3 (4.18.0-240.el8.x86_64) may cause call trace in build_skb. |
| Workaround: Update to RHEL 8.3 z-stream 4.18.0-240.22.1.el8_3.x86_64. | |
| Keywords: RHEL 8.3, Kernel Panic, Call Trace, fr | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
2629375 | Description: Matching on CT label is only supported when matching on lower 32 bits. Full match on all 128 bits of CT label is not supported. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ASAP2, Connection Tracking, Label | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
2707997 | Description: Installation in the package manager mode under SLES 15.x may require user-intervention if the original libibverbs is installed. |
| Workaround: zypper install --force-resolution mlnx-ofed-all | |
| Keywords: Installation, libibverbs | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
2708531 | Description: Installation in the package manager mode under SLES 15.x may require user-intervention if the original libopenvswitch is installed. |
| Workaround: zypper install --force-resolution mlnx-ofed-all | |
| Keywords: Installation | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
2703043 | Description: Congested TCP lock for kTLS TX device offload traffic compromises the performance. |
| Workaround: Disable TCP selective acknowledgement: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_sack | |
| Keywords: kTLS TX | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
2676405 | Description: If the package interface-rename is active (on XenServer, for example), the interface renaming by the OFED will not be done to eliminate conflicts. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Interface Renaming | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
2687943 | Description: Offload of rules which redirect from VF on one PF to VF on second PF is not supported on socket-direct devices. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
Keywords: ASAP2, Socket-Direct | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
2678672 | Description: When disabling switchdev mode, the qdisc in tunnel device cannot be destroyed and mlx5e_stats_flower() is still called by OVS resulting in NULL pointer panic and memory leak. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
Keywords: SwitchDev, mlx5, Tunnel Traffic | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
2566548 | Description: On PPC systems when EEH is enabled, running fw sync reset (either by mlxfwreset with flag --sync 1 or by devlink dev reload action fw_activate), the EEHmay catch the PCI reset and take ownership on the flow. When run few times in sequence, the EEH may also decide to disable the device. |
| Workaround: Administrator may disable EEH before running firmware sync reset on the device. | |
Keywords: PPC, EEH | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
2617950 | Description: TX port timestamp feature is supported for kernel versions 3.15 and greater. On older kernel versions, the feature will not be supported and ptp_tx<X>_* counters will not increment. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
Keywords: Ethtool | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 | |
2390731 | Description: Ethtool does not display Port Speed advertised/capability above 100Gb/s over and below kernels 5.0, even when supported. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
Keywords: Ethtool, Port Speed | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 |
| Internal Ref. Number | Issue |
|---|---|
2687198 | Description: Activating VF/SF LAG when at least one VF/SF is still bound may lead to an internal error in the firmware. |
| Workaround: Make sure all VFs/SFs are unbound prior to VF/SF LAG activation/deactivation. | |
Keywords: VF, SF, Firmware, Binding | |
Discovered in Release: 5.4-1.0.3.0 |
| Internal Ref. Number | Issue |
|---|---|
2585575 | Description: After disabling sync reset by setting enable_remote_dev_reset to false, running firmware sync reset a few times may lead to general protection fault and system may get stuck. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
Keywords: Firmware Upgrade | |
Discovered in Release: 5.3-1.0.0.1 | |
2582565 | Description: Conducting a firmware reset or unbinding the PF while in switchdev mode may cause a kernel crash. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
Keywords: SwitchDev, ASAP2, Unbind, Firmware Reset | |
Discovered in Release: 5.3-1.0.0.1 | |
2587802 | Description: PTP synchronization may be lost while using tx_port_ts private flag. |
| Workaround: Toggle private flag: ethtool --set-priv-flags <ifs> tx_port_ts off ethtool --set-priv-flags <ifs> tx_port_ts on restart ptp4l application | |
Keywords: PTP Synchronization | |
Discovered in Release: 5.3-1.0.0.1 | |
2574943 | Description: When running kernel 5.8 and bellow or RHEL 8.2 and below, sampled packets do not support tunnel information. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ASAP2, sFLOW | |
Discovered in Release: 5.3-1.0.0.1 | |
2568417 | Description: Upon upgrade to version 5.3, the package manager tool will install the new packages and then remove the old packages, a depmod WARNING on "mlx5_fpga_tools" will appear. This warning can be safely ignored. mlx5_fpga_tools is a module that existed in version 5.2 and was removed in 5.3. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Upgrade; mlx5_fpga_tools | |
Discovered in Release: 5.3-1.0.0.1 | |
2506425 | Description: When installing kmod packages on EulerOS 2.0SP9 or OpenEuler 20.03, the following error appears: "modprobe: FATAL: could not get modversions of <directory>". This error can be safely ignored. It is caused by incorrectly adding directories to a list of modules processed by /usr/sbin/weak-modules. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Installation; modules; kmod | |
Discovered in Release: 5.3-1.0.0.1 | |
2492509 | Description: When installing the driver on OpenEuler or on EulerOS 2.0SP9, rebuilding the drivers (--add-kernel-support) with the --kmp option (to create kmod packages) generates packages that are uninstallable because they have a dependency on "/sbin/depmod" that the system does not provide. This dependency is created by a buggy kmod package building tool included with the distribution. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: add-kernel-support | |
Discovered in Release: 5.3-1.0.0.1 | |
2479327 | Description: On SLES 12 SP5, if the kernel was upgraded to 4.12.14-122.46, it is not possible to rebuild kernel modules (--add-kernel-support) without upgrading gcc as well to at least 4.8.5-31.23.2. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Upgrade; SLES 12; add-kernel-support | |
Discovered in Release: 5.3-1.0.0.1 | |
2584441 | Description: On SLES 12 SP5, if the kernel was upgraded to 4.12.14-122.46, it is not possible to rebuild kernel modules (--add-kernel-support) without upgrading gcc as well to at least 4.8.5-31.23.2. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Upgrade; SLES 12; add-kernel-support | |
Discovered in Release: 5.3-1.0.0.1 | |
2460865 | Description: When setting MTU to low values, such as 68 bytes, packets may fail on oversize. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: MTU | |
Discovered in Release: 5.3-1.0.0.1 | |
2383318 | Description: On kernels based on RedHat 7.2, the "tx_port_ts" feature, as set by ethtool —set-priv-flags, is disabled. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: RedHat; tx_port_ts | |
Discovered in Release: 5.3-1.0.0.1 | |
2575647 | Description: An OvS-DPDK crash might occur while doing live-migration for VMs that use virtio-interfaces that are accelerated using OvS-DPDK vDPA ports. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: OvS-DPDK vDPA, Live-migration | |
Discovered in Release: 5.3-1.0.0.1 |
| Internal Ref. Number | Issue |
|---|---|
2430071 | Description: After reloading devlink in IPoIB setup, the IB link may stay in initialization state and require to run OpenSM to get the IB link to active state. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: IPoIB devlink reload | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-2.2.0.0 | |
2302786 | Description: On EulerOS 2.0 SP9 systems, the kernel ABI (kABI) between the base vhulk2006 kernel and the errata vhulk2008 kernel has been changed. It is now not possible to install MLNX_OFED compiled with KMP on vhulk2006 kernel on a vhulk2008 system. |
Workaround: Install MLNX_OFED with --add-kernel-support. | |
| Keywords: EulerOS; kABI; installation; --add-kernel-support | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
2398281 | Description: A crash in the TLS Rx socket cleanup flow may occur due to a kernel issue where a wrong extra call to tls_dev_del is made. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: TLS RX device offload | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
2407415 | Description: OpenEuler 20.03 Aarch64 with errata kernels 4.19.90-2011.6.0.0049.oe1.aarch64 and 4.19.90-2012.5.0.0054.oe1.aarch64 are incompatible with MLNX_OFED kmod-mlnx-ofa_kernel. |
Workaround: Install MLNX_OFED with --add-kernel-support. | |
| Keywords: OpenEuler; Aarch64; installation; --add-kernel-support | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
2348077 | Description: RDMA device name for VFs may change after resetting all VFs at once. |
| Workaround: Either reset interfaces one by one with a delay in between, or use a network interface naming scheme with predictable interface names, such as NAME_PCI or NAME_GUID. Copy /lib/udev/rules.d/60-rdma-persistent-naming.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/ and edit the last line accordingly. Note that this will change interface names. | |
| Keywords: RDMA; VF | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
2381713 | Description: esp4_offload and esp6_offload modules are expected to be loaded according to the list determined by the default kernel. However, these modules cannot be loaded when working over Debian 10 with non-default custom kernel as they are not included in it. |
Workaround: Either install MLNX_OFED using | |
| Keywords: esp4_offload; esp6_offload; kernel, Debian | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
2382898 | Description: On kernel 4.14, there is no traffic for UDP or TCP with payload size larger than 1398 on GENEVE IPv6 over VLAN tag interface. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: GENEVE; stag; VLAN; UDP | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
2326155 | Description: When toggling the link state while running RoCE traffic, the below warning may appear in the dmesg:
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| Workaround: N/A | |
Keywords: RoCE; __ib_cache_gid_add | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
2329654 | Description: Running XDP over an IP tunnel may fail when working with kernels as old as version 4.14. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: XDP, Kernel | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
2249156 | Description: MLNX_OFED installation will remove qperf package in case it was done after qperf installation. |
| Workaround: Make sure to install qperf package after installing MLNX_OFED, or re-install qperf after installing MLNX_OFED. | |
| Keywords: Installation; qperf | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
2355956 | Description: OFED installation requires kernel config CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO to be set. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Installation; CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
2362781 | Description: Openibd may fail to unload the Inbox driver mlx5_ib on Ubuntu 18.04 PPC Boston server due to a bug in the Inbox drivers. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Openibd; Inbox; Ubuntu; mlx5_ib | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
2367659 | Description: Upgrading the MLNX_OFED version that is configured as a YUM repository may yield warning messages from depmod about unknown symbols, such as:
These warnings appear since the RPM packages upgrade occurs sequentially, and there is an upgrade dependency between some of the modules, which would create a state of upgrade inconsistency. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: YUM; RPM; symbol; depmod; ISER; SRP | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
2385269 | Description: The number of connections offloaded is limited to 100K when working with Kernel v5.9. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ASAP2; Connection Tracking; Kernel | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
2393169 | Description: Mirroring is not supported with Connection Tracking when the source port is a VxLAN device. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ASAP2; Connection Tracking; Mirroring | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 | |
2395082 | Description: A call trace may take place when moving from SwitchDev mode back to Legacy mode in Kernel v5.9 due to a kernel issue in tcf_block_unbind. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ASAP2;SwitchDev; call trace; kernel; tcf_block_unbind | |
Discovered in Release: 5.2-1.0.4.0 |
| Internal Ref. Number | Issue |
|---|---|
2354899 | Description: ODP is not supported on RHEL7.x systems when running over an ETH link layer with RoCE disabled. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ODP, RHEL, RoCE | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-2.5.8.0 | |
2338150 | Description: Scatter to CQE feature should be disabled for the GPUDirect tests to work. |
Workaround: Set the MLX5_SCATTER_TO_CQE environment variable to 0 before the ib_send_bw command. For example:
| |
| Keywords: CQE, GPUDirect | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-2.5.8.0 | |
2295732 | Description: Upgrading from legacy (mlnx-libs) to the current rdma-core based build using YUM (package manager) fails. |
| Workaround: To perform this upgrade, either use the installer script or uninstall the old packages and install the new packages. | |
| Keywords: Legacy, mlnx-libs, rdma-core, installation | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-2.5.8.0 | |
2295735 | Description: Upgrading from legacy (mlnx-libs) to the current rdma-core based build using the apt-get (package manager) fails. |
| Workaround: To perform this upgrade, either use the installer script or uninstall the old packages and install the new packages. | |
| Keywords: Legacy, mlnx-libs, rdma-core, apt, apt-get, installation | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-2.5.8.0 | |
2200320 | Description: In case MLNX_OFED is re-installed on a certain system without using --force, the installation may fail requiring the removal of infiniband-diags package. |
Workaround: Remove the infiniband-diags package using rpm -e. | |
| Keywords: Installation, infiniband-diags | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-0.6.6.0 | |
2248996 | Description: Downgrading the firmware version for ConnectX-6 cards using "mlnx_ofed_install --fw-update-only --force-fw-update" fails. |
| Workaround: Manually downgrade the firmware version - please see Firmware Update Instructions. | |
| Keywords: Firmware, ConnectX-6 | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-0.6.6.0 | |
2175930 | Description: When using OFED 5.1 on PPC architectures with kernels v5.5 or v5.6 and an old ethtool utility, a harmless warning call trace may appear in the dmesg due to mismatch between user space and kernel. The warning call trace mentions ethtool_notify. |
| Workaround: Update the ethtool utility to version 5.6 on such systems in order to avoid the call trace. | |
| Keywords: PPC, ethtool_notify, kernel | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-0.6.6.0 | |
2198764 | Description: If MLNX_OFED is installed on a Debian or Ubuntu system that is run in chroot environment, the openibd service will not be enabled. If the chroot files are being used as a base of a full system, the openibd service is left disabled. |
Workaround: Currently, openibd is a sysv-init script that you can enable manually by running: update-rc.d openibd defaults | |
| Keywords: chroot, Debian , Ubuntu, openibd | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-0.6.6.0 | |
2237134 | Description: Running connection tracking (CT) with FW steering may cause CREATE_FLOW_TABLE command to fail with syndrome. |
Workaround: Configure OVS to use a single handler-thread:
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| Keywords: Connection tracking, ASAP, OVS, FW steering | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-0.6.6.0 | |
2239894 | Description: Running OpenVSwitch offload with high traffic throughput can cause low insertion rate due to high CPU usage. |
| Workaround: Reduce the number of combined channels of the uplink using "ethtool -L". | |
| Keywords: Insertion rate, ASAP2 | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-0.6.6.0 | |
2240671 | Description: Header rewrite action is not supported over RHEL/CentOS 7.4. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ASAP, header rewrite, RHEL, RedHat, CentOS, OS | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-0.6.6.0 | |
2242546 | Description: Tunnel offload (encap/decap) may cause kernel panic if nf_tables module is not probed. |
| Workaround: Make sure to probe the nf_tables module before inserting any rule. | |
| Keywords: Kernel v5.7, ASAP, kernel panic | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-0.6.6.0 | |
2143007 | Description: IPsec packets are dropped during heavy traffic due to a bug in net/xfrm Linux Kernel. |
| Workaround: Make sure the Kernel is modified to apply the following patch: "xfrm: Fix double ESP trailer insertion in IPsec crypto offload". | |
| Keywords: IPsec, xfrm | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-0.6.6.0 | |
2225952 | Description: VF mirroring with TC policy skip_sw is not supported on RHEL/CentOS 7.4, 7.5 and 7.6 OSs. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ASAP2, Mirroring, RHEL, RedHat, OS | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-0.6.6.0 | |
2216521 | Description: After upgrading MLNX_OFED from v5.0 or earlier, ibdev2netdev utility changes the installation prefix to /usr/sbin. Therefore, it cannot be found while found in the same SHELL environment. |
| Workaround: After installing MLNX_OFED, log out and log in again to refresh the SHELL environment. | |
| Keywords: ibdev2netdev | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-0.6.6.0 | |
2202520 | Description: Rules with VLAN push/pop, encap/decap and header rewrite actions together are not supported. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ASAP2, SwitchDev, VLAN push/pop, encap/decap, header rewrite | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-0.6.6.0 | |
2210752 | Description: Switching from Legacy mode to SwitchDev mode and vice-versa while TC rules exist on the NIC will result in failure. |
| Workaround: Before attempting to switch mode, make sure to delete all TC rules on the NIC or stop OpenvSwitch. | |
| Keywords: ASAP2, Devlink, Legacy SR-IOV | |
Discovered in Release: 5.1-0.6.6.0 |
| Internal Ref. Number | Issue |
|---|---|
2125036/2125031 | Description: Upgrading the MLNX_OFED from an UPSTREAM_LIBS based version to an MLNX_LIBS based version fails unless the driver is uninstalled and then re-installed. |
| Workaround: Make sure to uninstall and re-install MLNX_OFED to complete the upgrade. | |
| Keywords: Installation, UPSTREAM_LIBS, MLNX_LIBS | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-2.1.8.0 | |
2105447 | Description: hns_roce warning messages will appear in the dmesg after reboot on Euler2 SP3 OSs. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: hns_roce, dmesg, Euler | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-2.1.8.0 | |
2110321 | Description: Multiple driver restarts may cause IPoIB soft lockup. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Driver restart, IPoIB | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-2.1.8.0 | |
2112251 | Description: On kernels 4.10-4.14, when Geneve tunnel's remote endpoint is defined using IPv6, packets larger than MTU are not fragmented, resulting in no traffic sent. |
| Workaround: Define geneve tunnel's remote endpoint using IPv4. | |
| Keywords: Kernel, Geneve, IPv4, IPv6, MTU, fragmentation | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-2.1.8.0 | |
2102902 | Description: A kernel panic may occur over RH8.0-4.18.0-80.el8.x86_64 OS when opening kTLS offload connection due to a bug in kernel TLS stack. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: TLS offload, mlx5e | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-2.1.8.0 | |
2111534 | Description: A Kernel panic may occur over Ubuntu19.04-5.0.0-38-generic OS when opening kTLS offload connection due to a bug in the Kernel TLS stack. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: TLS offload, mlx5e | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-2.1.8.0 | |
2035950 | Description: An internal error might take place in the firmware when performing any of the following in VF LAG mode, when at least one VF of either PF is still bound/attached to a VM.
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| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: VF LAG, binding, firmware, FW, PF, SR-IOV | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-1.0.0.0 | |
2044544 | Description: When working with OSs with Kernel v4.10, bonding module does not allow setting MTUs larger than 1500 on a bonding interface. |
| Workaround: Upgrade your Kernel version to v4.11 or above. | |
| Keywords: Bonding, MTU, Kernel | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-1.0.0.0 | |
1882932 | Description: Libibverbs dependencies are removed during OFED installation, requiring manual installation of libraries that OFED does not reinstall. |
| Workaround: Manually install missing packages. | |
| Keywords: libibverbs, installation | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-1.0.0.0 | |
2058535 | Description: ibdev2netdev command returns duplicate devices with different ports in SwitchDev mode. |
| Workaround: Use /opt/mellanox/iproute2/sbin/rdma link show command instead. | |
| Keywords: ibdev2netdev | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-1.0.0.0 | |
2072568 | Description: In RHEL/CentOS 7.2 OSs, adding drop rules when act_gact is not loaded may cause a kernel crash. |
| Workaround: Preload all needed modules to avoid such a scenario (cls_flower, act_mirred, act_gact, act_tunnel_key and act_vlan). | |
| Keywords: RHEL/CentOS 7.2, Kernel 4.9, call trace, ASAP | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-1.0.0.0 | |
2093698 | Description: VF LAG configuration is not supported when the NUM_OF_VFS configured in mlxconfig is higher than 64. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: VF LAG, SwitchDev mode, ASAP | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-1.0.0.0 | |
2093746 | Description: Devlink health dumps are not supported on kernels lower than v5.3. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Devlink, health report, dump | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-1.0.0.0 | |
2000590 | Description: Sending packets larger than MTU is not supported when working with OVS-DPDK. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: MTU, OVS-DPDK | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-1.0.0.0 | |
2062900 | Description: Moving VF from SwitchDev mode to Legacy mode while the representor is being used by OVS-DPDK results in a segmentation fault. |
| Workaround: To move VF to Legacy mode with no error, make sure to delete the ports from the OVS. | |
| Keywords: SwitchDev, Legacy, representor, OVS-DPDK | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-1.0.0.0 | |
2075942 | Description: Huge pages configuration is lost each time the server is configured. |
| Workaround: Re-configure the huge pages after each reboot, or configure them as a kernel parameter. | |
| Keywords: Huge pages, reboot, OVS-DPDK | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-1.0.0.0 | |
2067012 | Description: MLNX_OFED cannot be installed on Debian 9.11 OS in SwitchDev mode. |
Workaround: Install OFED with the flag --add-kernel-support. | |
| Keywords: ASAP, SwitchDev, Debian, Kernel | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-1.0.0.0 | |
2036572 | Description: When using a thread domain and the lockless rdma-core ibv_post_send path, there is an additional CPU penalty due to required barriers around the device MMIO buffer that were omitted in MLNX_OFED. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: rdma-core, write-combining, MMIO buffer | |
Discovered in Release: 5.0-1.0.0.0 |
| Internal Ref. Number | Issue |
|---|---|
| - | Description: The argparse module is installed by default in Python versions =>2.7 and >=3.2. In case an older Python version is used, the argparse module is not installed by default. |
| Workaround: Install the argparse module manually. | |
| Keywords: Python, MFT, argparse, installation | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.7-3.2.9.0 | |
1997230 | Description: Running mlxfwreset or unloading mlx5_core module while contrak flows are offloaded may cause a call trace in the kernel. |
| Workaround: Stop OVS service before calling mlxfwreset or unloading mlx5_core module. | |
| Keywords: Contrak, ASAP, OVS, mlxfwrest, unload | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.7-3.2.9.0 | |
1955352 | Description: Moving 2 ports to SwitchDev mode in parallel is not supported. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ASAP, SwitchDev | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.7-3.2.9.0 | |
1979958 | Description: VxLAN IPv6 offload is not supported over CentOS/RHEL v7.2 OSs. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Tunnel, VXLAN, ASAP, IPv6 | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.7-3.2.9.0 | |
1991710 | Description: PRIO_TAG_REQUIRED_EN configuration is not supported and may cause call trace. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ASAP, PRIO_TAG, mstconfig | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.7-3.2.9.0 | |
1967866 | Description: Enabling ECMP offload requires the VFs to be unbound and VMs to be shut down. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: ECMP, Multipath, ASAP2 | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.7-3.2.9.0 | |
1921981 | Description: On Ubuntu, Debian and RedHat 8 and above OSS, parsing the mfa2 file using the mstarchive might result in a segmentation fault. |
| Workaround: Use mlxarchive to parse the mfa2 file instead. | |
| Keywords: MFT, mfa2, mstarchive, mlxarchive, Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, operating system | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.7-1.0.0.1 | |
1840288 | Description: MLNX_OFED does not support XDP features on RedHat 7 OS, despite the declared support by RedHat. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: XDP, RedHat | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.7-1.0.0.1 | |
1821235 | Description: When using mlx5dv_dr API for flow creation, for flows which execute the "encapsulation" action or "push vlan" action, metadata C registers will be reset to zero. |
| Workaround: Use the both actions at the end of the flow process. | |
| Keywords: Flow steering | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.7-1.0.0.1 | |
1892663/1800633 | Description: mlnx_tune script does not support python3 interpreter. |
| Workaround: Run mlnx_tune with python2 interpreter only. | |
| Keywords: mlnx_tune, python3, python2 | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.7-1.0.0.1 |
| Internal Ref. Number | Issue |
|---|---|
1504785 | Description: A lost interrupt issue in pass-through virtual machines may prevent the driver from loading, followed by printing managed pages errors to the dmesg. |
| Workaround: Restart the driver. | |
| Keywords: VM, virtual machine | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.6-1.0.1.1 | |
1764415 | Description: Unbinding PFs on LAG devices results in a "Failed to modify QP to RESET" error message. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: RoCE LAG, unbind, PF, RDMA | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.6-1.0.1.1 | |
1806565 | Description: RoCE default GIDs v1 and v2 are derived from the MAC address of the corresponding netdevice's PCI function, and they resemble the IPv6 address. However, in systems where the IPv6 link local address generated does not depend on the MAC address, RoCEv2 default GID should not be used. |
| Workaround: Use RoCEv2 default GID. | |
| Keywords: RoCE | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.6-1.0.1.1 | |
| - | Description: Aging is not functional on bond device in RHEL 7.6. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: VF LAG, ASAP2 | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.6-1.0.1.1 | |
1747774 | Description: In VF LAG mode, outgoing traffic in load balanced mode is according to the origin ring, thus, half of the rings will be coupled with port 1 and half with port 2. All the traffic on the same ring will be sent from the same port. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: VF LAG, ASAP2 | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.6-1.0.1.1 | |
1753629 | Description: A bonding bug found in Kernels 4.12 and 4.13 may cause a slave to become permanently stuck in
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| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: Bonding, slave | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.6-1.0.1.1 | |
1712068 | Description: Uninstalling MLNX_OFED automatically results in the uninstallation of several libraries that are included in the MLNX_OFED package, such as InfiniBand-related libraries. |
| Workaround: If these libraries are required, reinstall them using the local package manager (yum/dnf). | |
| Keywords: MLNX_OFED libraries | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.6-1.0.1.1 | |
| - | Description: Due to changes in libraries, MFT v4.11.0 and below are not forward compatible with MLNX_OFED v4.6-1.0.0.0 and above. Therefore, with MLNX_OFED v4.6-1.0.0.0 and above, it is recommended to use MFT v4.12.0 and above. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: MFT compatible | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.6-1.0.1.1 | |
1730840 | Description: On ConnectX-4 HCAs, GID index for RoCE v2 is inconsistent when toggling between enabled and disabled interface modes. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: RoCE v2, GID | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.6-1.0.1.1 | |
1717428 | Description: On kernels 4.10-4.14, MTUs larger than 1500 cannot be set for a GRE interface with any driver (IPv4 or IPv6). |
| Workaround: Upgrade your kernel to any version higher than v4.14. | |
| Keywords: Fedora 27, gretap, ip_gre, ip_tunnel, ip6_gre, ip6_tunnel | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.6-1.0.1.1 | |
1748343 | Description: Driver reload takes several minutes when a large number of VFs exists. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: VF, SR-IOV | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.6-1.0.1.1 | |
1733974 | Description: Running heavy traffic (such as 'ping flood') while bringing up and down other mlx5 interfaces may result in “INFO: rcu_preempt dectected stalls on CPUS/tasks:” call traces. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: mlx5 | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.6-1.0.1.1 | |
| - | Description: On ConnectX-6 HCAs and above, an attempt to configure advertisement (any bitmap) will result in advertising the whole capabilities. |
| Workaround: N/A | |
| Keywords: 200Gb/s, advertisement, Ethtool | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.6-1.0.1.1 |
| Internal Ref. Number | Issue |
|---|---|
1699289 | Description: HW LRO feature is disabled OOB, which results in increased CPU utilization on the Receive side. On ConnectX-5 adapter cards and above, this causes a bandwidth drop for a few streams. |
Workaround: Make sure to enable HW LRO in the driver:
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| Keywords: HW LRO, ConnectX-5 and above | |
| Discovered in Release: 4.5-1.0.1.0 | |
1403313 | Description: Attempting to allocate an excessive number of VFs per PF in operating systems with kernel versions below v4.15 might fail due to a known issue in the Kernel. |
Workaround: Make sure to update the Kernel version to v4.15 or above. | |
Keywords: VF, PF, IOMMU, Kernel, OS | |
Discovered in Release: 4.5-1.0.1.0 | |
- | Description: NEO-Host is not supported on the following OSs:
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Workaround: N/A | |
Keywords: NEO-Host, operating systems | |
Discovered in Release: 4.5-1.0.1.0 | |
1521877 | Description: On SLES 12 SP1 OSs, a kernel tracepoint issue may cause undefined behavior when inserting a kernel module with a wrong parameter. |
Workaround: N/A | |
Keywords: mlx5 driver, SLES 12 SP1 | |
Discovered in Release: 4.5-1.0.1.0 |
