Component | Feature/Change | Description |
mlx5 | Enablement of OVS\OVN Inbox offload | [ConnectX-6 Dx and above] Added support for GRE and Geneve tunnels’ offload when the tunnel source IP is on a VF. |
CT UDP Unidirectional Traffic Offload | [ConnectX-4 Dx and above] Offloaded long-running unidirectional UDP connection with conntrack. | |
Multi Port E-switch Support | [ConnectX-6 Dx] Enabled multiport of E-Switch A mode, where a single E-Switch is used and all the vports and physical ports on the NIC are connected to it. For example, sending traffic from a VF that is created on PF0 to an uplink that is natively associated with PF1 uplink. | |
Support TC Police MTU Match | [ConnectX-4 Dx and above] Added support for TC police action MTU attributes’ offload, which allows users to compare the pktlen to the MTU value. In addition, added support for TC police jump conform-exceeds’ offload and control action. | |
RDMA pkts and Bytes Counters on VFs Expose to Host | [ConnectX-5 and above] Added RDMA traffic-only counters for rep devices. These counters can now be read from host with ethtool or from sysfs and not only from the container. | |
General Driver Support | Driver base Upstream Kernel v6.3 | |
mlx4 | General Driver Support | Driver base Upstream Kernel v6.3 |
rdma-core | General Driver Support | Updated to version rdma-core-46.0-1.el8.1 |
mstflint | General Driver Support | Updated to version mstflint-4.24.0-1.el8 |
VMA | General Driver Support | Updated to version libvma-9.8.20-3.el8 |
UCX | General Driver Support | Updated to version ucx-1.14.1-1.el8.1 |
Changes and New Features
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