About This Document
This guide provides troubleshooting information for common issues and misconfigurations encountered when using BlueField Platform Software.
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Glossary
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Term |
Description |
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ACE |
AXI coherency extensions |
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ACPI |
Advanced configuration and power interface |
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AMBA® |
Advanced microcontroller bus architecture |
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ARB |
Arbitrate |
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ATF |
Arm-trusted firmware |
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AXI4 |
Advanced eXtensible Interface 4 |
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BDF address |
Bus, device, function address. This is the device's PCIe bus address to uniquely identify the specific device. |
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BERT |
Boot error record table |
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BF_INST_DIR |
The directory where the BlueField software is installed |
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BFB |
BlueField bootstream |
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BMC |
Board management controller |
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BSD |
BlueField software distribution |
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BSP |
BlueField support package |
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BUF |
Buffer |
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CBS |
Committed burst size |
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CHI |
Coherent hub interface; Arm® protocol used over the BlueField Skymesh specification |
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CIR |
Committed information rate |
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CL |
Cache line |
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CMDQ |
Command queue |
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CMO |
Cache maintenance operation |
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COB |
Collision buffer |
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DAT |
Data |
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DEK |
Data encryption key |
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DMA |
Direct memory access |
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DOCA |
DPU SDK |
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DOT |
Device ownership transfer |
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DPA |
Data path accelerator; a n auxiliary processor designed to accelerate data-path operations |
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DPDK |
Data plane development kit |
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DPI |
Deep packet inspection |
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DPU |
Data processing unit, the third pillar of the data center with CPU and GPU |
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DVM |
Distributed virtual memory |
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DW |
Dword |
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EBS |
Excess burst size |
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ECPF |
Embedded CPU physical function |
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EIR |
Excess information rate |
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EMEM/EMI |
External memory interface; block in the MSS which performs the actual read/write from the DDR device |
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eMMC |
Embedded multi-media card |
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ESP |
EFI system partition |
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ESP header |
Encapsulating security payload |
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EU |
Execution unit. HW thread; a logical DPA processing unit. |
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FIPS |
Federal Information Processing Standards |
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FPGA |
Field-programmable gate arrays |
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FS |
File system |
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FW |
Firmware |
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GDB |
GNU debugger |
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GPT |
GUID partition table |
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HCA |
Host-channel adapter |
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HNF |
Home node interface |
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Host |
When referring to "the host" this documentation is referring to the server host. When referring to the Arm based host, the documentation will specifically call out "Arm host".
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HW |
Hardware |
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hwmon |
Hardware monitoring |
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IB |
InfiniBand |
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ICM |
Interface configuration memory |
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IKE |
Internet key exchange |
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IPMB |
Intelligent platform management bus |
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IPMI |
Intelligent platform management interface |
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IR |
Intermediate representation |
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KGDB |
Kernel debugger |
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KGDBOC |
Kernel debugger over console |
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LAT |
Latency |
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LCRD |
Link credit |
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LSO |
Large send offload |
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LTO |
Link-time optimization |
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MMIO |
Memory-mapped I/O |
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MSB |
Most significant bit |
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MSS |
Memory subsystem |
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MST |
Mellanox software tools |
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NAT |
Network address translation |
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NIC |
Network interface card |
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NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
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NS |
Namespace |
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OCD |
On-chip debugger |
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OOB |
Out-of-band |
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OS |
Operating system |
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OVS |
Open vSwitch |
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PBS |
Peak burst size |
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PCIe |
PCI Express; Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
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PF |
Physical function |
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PIR |
Peak information rate |
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PK |
Platform key |
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PKA |
Public key accelerator |
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POC |
Point of coherence |
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RD |
Read |
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RDMA |
Remote direct memory access |
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RegEx |
Regular expression |
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REQ |
Request |
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RES |
Response |
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RMC |
Remote management controller |
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RN |
Request node RN-F – Fully coherent request node RN-D – IO coherent request node with DVM support RN-I – IO coherent request node |
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RNG |
Random number generator/generation |
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RoCE |
Ethernet and RDMA over converged Ethernet |
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RQ |
Receive queue |
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RShim |
Random Shim |
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RTT |
Round-trip time |
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RX |
Receive |
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SA |
Security association |
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SBSA |
Server base system architecture |
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SDK |
Software development kit |
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SF |
Sub-function or scalable function |
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SG |
Scatter-gather |
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SHA |
Secure hash algorithm |
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SMMU |
System memory management unit |
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SNP |
Snooping |
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SQ |
Send queue |
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SR-IOV |
Single-root IO virtualization |
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STL |
Stall |
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Sync event |
Synchronization event |
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TBU |
Translation buffer unit |
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TIR |
Transport interface receive |
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TIS |
Transport interface send |
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TLS |
Transport layer security |
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TRB |
Trail buffer |
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TSO |
TCP send offload |
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TSO |
Total store order |
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TX |
Transmit |
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UDS |
Unix domain socket |
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UEFI |
Unified extensible firmware interface |
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UPVS |
UEFI persistent variable store |
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VF |
Virtual function |
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VFE |
Virtio full emulation |
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VM |
Virtual machine |
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VPI |
Virtual protocol interconnect |
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VST |
Virtual switch tagging |
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WorkQ or workq |
Work queue |
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WQE |
Work queue elements |
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WR |
Write |
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WRDB |
Write data buffer |