User Manual

This part of the document contains the following sections:

• Offloads

  • Aging Support For HWS (Hardware Steering)

  • Connection Tracking

    • Connection Tracking reSync/Packet-Reinjection

    • Connection Tracking Window Validation

  • Customized RSS Hash

  • Flow Quota

  • Index-based Insertion Flow Rule

  • Indirect Actions List

  • Live Upgrade

  • Matching Network Service Header (NSH)

  • Matching RoCE IB BTH opcode/dest_qp

  • Meters

    • Limit Upcall Traffic to All Representors

    • Meter Hierarchy

    • Meter Sharing Between Ports Inside a Single switchdev

    • Packet Per Second (PPS) on Meter with rte_flow API

    • Traffic Metering with Yellow Color Policy

    • Yellow Meter Hierarchy with Color Aware

  • METER_MARK Action API Change

  • Modify Actions

    • ECN in IP Header Modification

    • Modify Header Action

    • VLAN pop on ingress and VLAN push on egress

  • Multi-Pattern HWS Table Actions

  • Multiprotocol Label Switching

  • Packet Re-Routing to the Kernel

  • Rules Matching

    • IPv4 Header Length Offload

    • Matching GRE Checksum/Key/Sequence

    • Matching Port Representor

    • NVIDIA BlueField-2 Host to Arm Flow Control

    • Steering by Integrity Check Flags

    • Steering by Packet Type

    • Switch Granularity Rule Matching

    • VXLAN last 8-bits Field Matching

    • Port Affinity Match

    • Range Matching

  • Sampling / Mirroring

    • Mirror Extension to Port Representor

    • Sample Action with VXLAN and NVGRE Encapsulation

  • Matching Random Value

  • Template API

  • Updating Flow Rule

  • Flow Table Resize

  • DPDK AES-GCM Crypto

  • raw_encap/decap Action with Indirect Action Handle

  • SRv6 Push/Remove Actions

  • Data Path Hash Calculation

• Configurations

  • Aggregated Representor Queues

  • Allow / Forbid Duplicate Rules Insertion

  • Changes between mlnx_dpdk_20.11 and mlnx_dpdk_22.11

  • Configuring VF to be Trusted

  • Disable Default FDB Jump Rules

  • Enlarging the Maximal Flow Priority Value

  • Hairpin Mesh Configuration and Testing

  • Runtime Configurations

    • Flexible Item

    • Hint to the Driver on the Number of Flow Rules

    • Optimizing HWS FDB Domain Memory Consumption

  • Scalable Functions

  • Steering LAG

• Tools & Debug Options

  • Enhancing Flow Dump

  • Flow Dump for a Single Flow with flow-id

  • RegEx Support for Chained mbufs

  • mlx5 Tx Datapath Tracing

• Additional Drivers

  • Compression Driver Support

  • Crypto Driver Support