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 |
22.35.1012 | |
HPCC, Programmable Congestion Control |
HPCC related configurations in is now supported via the mlxconfig utility. |
UDP |
Added support for copy modify header steering action to/from the UDP field. |
Range based Lookup |
Added support for range based lookup. This new capability is available using the following new PRM command: GENERATE WQE which receives GTA WQE, the command supports "match on range" and num_hash_definer=[1,2] and num_match_ste=[1,2]. For further information, refer to section "RTC Object Format" in the PRM. |
RoCE based VM Migration |
Added support for RoCE based VM migration. |
Resource Dump |
Added the following resource dump segments:
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Striding WQE - Headroom and Tail-room |
As the software requires additional space before and after a packet is scattered for its processing for stridden RQ, the hardware will allocate the required room while scattering packets to spare a copy. |
Connections per Second (CPS) |
Improved security offload's Connections per Second (CPS) rate using the general object DEK (PSP TLS etc). |
VF Migration Flow |
Added support for pre-copy commands in VF migration flow in order to reduce the migration downtime. |
VF Migration Flow |
Optimized performance to support full VF migration flow. |
VirtIO vDPA Performance Virtualization |
Increased the VirtIO hardware offload message rate to 20/20 MPPS for 256 virtual devices by optimizing the datapath application code. |
RoCE: Adaptive Timer |
Enabled ADP timer to allow the user to configure RC or DC qp_timeout values lower than 16. |
QoS Priority Trust Default State |
QoS priority trust default state can now be changed using the new nvconfig below:
The values that can be used to set the default state are:
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Bug Fixes |
See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section. |
Feature/Change |
Description |
22.32.2306 | |
Generic |
This is the initial version of the ConnectX-6 DE firmware Release Notes. ConnectX-6 DE has the same feature set as ConnectX-6 adapter card. |