Linux Kernel Upstream Release Notes v6.16

Changes and New Features

Upstream Kernel 6.16

Internal Ref.

Feature

Description

Support Added in User Space Version

Support Added in Firmware Version

Net Dev

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Hardware-Managed Flow Steering

[ConnectX-6 Dx and above] Added support for Hardware-Managed Flow Steering ( HMFS), which is a new approach for managing steering rules where STEs are written to ICM by hardware (as opposed to software in software-managed steering), which allows higher rate of rule insertion.

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