NVIDIA MLNX_OFED Documentation v23.10-6.1.6.1 LTS

Fast Driver Unload

This feature enables optimizing mlx5 driver teardown time in shutdown and kexec flows.

The fast driver unload is disabled by default. To enable it, the prof_sel module parameter of mlx5_core module should be set to 3.

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