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NVIDIA ConnectX-7 Adapter Cards Firmware Release Notes v28.45.1200

Changes and New Feature History

Note

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

28.45.1020

SPDM

Introduced a 1ms delay for SPDM responses.

Bug Fixes

See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section.

Feature/Change

Description

28.44.1206

Bug Fixes

See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section.

Feature/Change

Description

28.44.1036

Multi-host LAG

When using a multi-host deployment, each host is assigned unique ports and PFs and manages its own LAG.

PCIe Switch fwreset

Added support for a new synchronized flow, including a tool and driver, to perform a fwreset on setups with a PCIe switch configuration.

PTP

Unified PTP is now supported across different VFs on the same PF.

MADs

Added support for new MADs: PortRecoveryPolicyConfig and PortRecoveryPolicyCounters. During the PHY recovery process, the firmware core will indicate the port_logical_state as Active.

Block SMP Traffic

Added a new NV config (SM_DISABLE, default 0) which, when enabled, blocks SMP traffic that does not originate from the SM.

Dynamic Long Cables

Added the ability to set cable length as a parameter in the PFCC access register. The cable length is used in the calculation of RX lossless buffer parameters, including size, Xoff, and Xon thresholds.

Bug Fixes

See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section.

Feature/Change

Description

28.43.1014

PCIe Telemetry

Added support for PCIe Telemetry (NSM Type 2).

Programmable Congestion Control (PCC)

Migrated PCC NP solution from ACE hardware platform to DPA hardware platform. The new capability is applicable to the following 2 modes:

  • PCC_INT_EN=True and PCC_INT_NP_RTT_DATA_MODE=INGRESS_BYTE

  • PCC_INT_EN=True and PCC_INT_NP_RTT_DATA_MODE=NO_DATA

The first mode is used to support ZTRCC RX bytes in RTT response.

RDMA Telemetry

Added the option to indicate an error CQE event on every selected function per eSwitch manager. This indication is defined as a new WQE including the relevant information about the error (such as: syndrome, function_id, timestamp, QPs num etc.).

The feature is configured using a new general object: RDMA-Telemetry object, and depends on the following new caps: HCA_CAP.rdma_telemetry_notification_types and HCA_CAP.rdma_telemetry.

UID Permissions

Extended kernel lockdown permission set. The following sub-operations can now be called by tools (permission TOOLS_RESORCES) using new HCA capability bitmask field: tool_partial_cap.

The 5 sub-operations are:

  • QUERY_HCA_CAP with other function

  • QUERY_VUID with direct data

  • QUERY_ROCE_ADDRESS with other vport

  • SET_HCA_CAP with other function

  • POSTPONE_CONNECTED_QP_TIMEOUT with other vport

The new added caps are:

  • tool_partial_cap.postpone_conn_qp_timeout_other_vport,

  • tool_partial_cap.set_hca_cap_other_func

  • tool_partial_cap.query_roce_addr_other_vport

  • tool_partial_cap.query_vuid_direct_data

  • tool_partial_cap.query_hca_cap_other_func

Cross E-Switch Scheduling

Added support for QoS scheduling across multiple E-Switches grouped in a LAG. VPort members of a Physical Function can be added to a rate group from another Physical Function and rate limits of the group will apply to those VPort members as well.

Jump from NIC_TX to FDB_TX

Added 'table_type_valid' and 'table_type' fields to the steering action (STC) "Jump To Flow" table parameters to enable the user to jump from NIC_TX to FDB_TX and bypass the ACL table.

Jump to TIR or queue from FDB on Tx

Enabled hop reduction by bypassing NIC domain in various use cases. Such action r educes the number of hops (improves PPS) to deal with mass number of flows and devices.

To enable this new capability, a new STC action type "JUMP_TO_FDB_RX" was added to allow jumping into the RX side of a table.

Flex Parser: ARC-IN and ARC-OUT

Increased the maximum number of supported "ARC-IN" from 1 to 8 and "ARC-OUT" from 3 to 8 for the dynamic flex parser.

PSP Crypto Offload

[Alpha] Added support for PSP Crypto offload transport mode.

ZTR_RTTCC Histogram

Added histogram support for rate and Round-Trip Time (RTT) in PCC ZTR_RTTCC.

Bug Fixes

See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section.

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