This section describes the conventions, abbreviations and acronyms used in this documentation. It also lists resources for additional related information.
Description | Convention | Example |
File names | file_name.extension | |
Directory names | directory | |
Commands and their parameters | command param1 | mts3610-1 > show hosts |
Required item | < > | |
Optional item | [ ] | |
Mutually exclusive parameters | { p1, p2, p3 } or {p1 | p2 | p3} | |
Optional mutually exclusive parameters | [ p1 | p2 | p3 ] | |
Variables for which users supply specific values | Italic font | enable |
Emphasized words | Italic font | These are emphasized words |
Abbreviation / Acronym | Whole Word / Description |
b | (Lower case) ‘b’ is used to indicate size in bits or multiples of bits (e.g., 1Kb = 1024 bits) |
B | (Capital) ‘B’ is used to indicate size in bytes or multiples of bytes (e.g., 1KB = 1024 bytes, and 1MB = 1048576 bytes) |
EoIB | Ethernet over InfiniBand |
FW | Firmware |
HCA | Host Channel Adapter |
HW | Hardware |
IB | InfiniBand |
IPoIB | IP over InfiniBand |
lsb | Least significant bit |
LSB | Least significant byte |
MPI | Message Passing Interface |
msb | Most significant bit |
MSB | Most significant byte |
NIC | Network Interface Card |
NVGRE | Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation |
PFC | Priority Flow Control |
PR | Path Record |
QoS | Quality of Service |
RDS | Reliable Datagram Sockets |
RoCE | RDMA over Converged Ethernet |
SL | Service Level |
SW | Software |
TC | Traffic Class |
ULP | Upper Level Protocol |
VL | Virtual Lane |
VPI | Virtual Protocol Interconnect |
Document | Description |
MFT User Manual | Describes the set of firmware management tools for a single InfiniBand node. MFT can be used for: |
WinOF Release Notes | For possible software issues, please refer to WinOF Release Notes. |
MLNX OFED User Manual | For more information on SR-IOV over KVM, please refer to the MLNX_OFED User Manual. |
InfiniBand™ Architecture Specification, | The InfiniBand Specification by IBTA |