Changes and New Features
SR-IOV - Virtual Functions (VF) per Port - The maximum Virtual Functions (VF) per port is 127. For further information, see RoCE Limitations.
It is recommended to enable the “above 4G decoding” BIOS setting for features that require large amount of PCIe resources.
Such features are: SR-IOV with numerous VFs, PCIe Emulated Switch, and Large BAR Requests.
Security Hardening Enhancements: This release contains important reliability improvements and security hardening enhancements. NVIDIA recommends upgrading your devices' firmware to this release to improve the devices’ firmware security and reliability.
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. |
Unsupported Features
The following advanced feature are unsupported in the current firmware version:
The following service types:
SyncUMR
Mellanox transport
RAW IPv6
INT-A not supported for EQs only MSI-X
PCI VPD write flow (RO flow supported)
Streaming Receive Queue (STRQ) and collapsed CQ
Subnet Manager (SM) on VFs
RoCE LAG in Multi-Host/Socket-Direct
Unsupported Commands
QUERY_MAD_DEMUX
SET_MAD_DEMUX
CREATE_RQ - MEMORY_RQ_RMP
MODIFY_LAG_ASYNC_EVENT