NVIDIA MLNX_OFED Documentation Rev 5.4-3.6.8.1 LTS
v5.17

Release Notes

This long-term support (LTS) version 5.4-3.6.8.1 should be used by customers who would like to utilize ConnectX-4 adapter cards and above and keep using sable 5.4-x deployment while getting the following:

  • Critical bug fixes

  • Support for new major operating systems

For other use cases, it is recommended to use the latest 5.x version.

Release Notes Update History

Version

Date

Description

5.4-3.6.8.1

November 30, 2022

Initial release of this document version.

Warning

As of MLNX_OFED version v5.1-0.6.6.0, the following are no longer supported.

  • ConnectX-3

  • ConnectX-3 Pro

  • Connect-IB

  • RDMA experimental verbs libraries (mlnx_lib)

To utilize the above devices/libraries, refer to version 4.9 long-term support (LTS).

Release Notes contain the following sections:

The Linux Driver operates across all NVIDIA network adapter solutions supporting the following uplinks to servers:

Uplink/Adapter Card

Driver Name

Uplink Speed

BlueField-2

mlx5

  • InfiniBand: SDR, FDR, EDR, HDR

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2

BlueField

  • InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR, FDR10, EDR

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE

ConnectX-7

  • InfiniBand: EDR, HDR100, HDR, NDR200, NDR

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2, 200GbE3, 400GbE

ConnectX-6 Lx

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2

ConnectX-6 Dx

  • Ethernet: 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2, 200GbE2

ConnectX-6

  • InfiniBand: SDR, FDR, EDR, HDR

  • Ethernet: 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2, 200GbE2

ConnectX-5/ConnectX-5 Ex

  • InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR, FDR10, EDR

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE

ConnectX-4 Lx

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE

ConnectX-4

  • InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR, FDR10, EDR

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 56GbE1, 100GbE

  1. 56GbE is an NVIDIA proprietary link speed and can be achieved while connecting an NVIDIA adapter card to NVIDIASX10XX switch series or when connecting an NVIDIA adapter card to another NVIDIA adapter card.

  2. Speed that supports both NRZ and PAM4 modes in Force mode and Auto-Negotiation mode.

  3. Speed that supports PAM4 mode only.

Package Contents

Package

Revision

Licenses

clusterkit

1.4.390-1.54368

BSD

dapl

2.1.10.1.mlnx-OFED.4.9.0.1.4.54368

Dual GPL/BSD/CPL

dpcp

1.1.25-1.54368

Proprietary

dump_pr

1.0-5.9.1.MLNX20210811.gb359a4e.54368

GPLv2 or BSD

fabric-collector

1.1.0.MLNX20170103.89bb2aa-0.1.54368

GPLv2 or BSD

hcoll

4.7.3208-1.54368

Proprietary

ibdump

6.0.0-1.54368

BSD2+GPL2

ibsim

0.10-1.54368

GPLv2 or BSD

ibutils2

2.1.1-0.148.MLNX20220418.g60b8156.54368

Mellanox Confidential and Proprietary

iser

5.4-OFED.5.4.3.6.6.1

GPLv2

isert

5.4-OFED.5.4.3.6.6.1

GPLv2

kernel-mft

4.21.0-102

Dual BSD/GPL

knem

1.1.4.90mlnx1-OFED.5.1.2.5.0.1

BSD and GPLv2

libvma

9.5.2-1

GPLv2 or BSD

libxlio

1.0.6-1

GPLv2 or BSD

mlnx-en

5.4-3.6.8.0.g9bfaf32

GPLv2

mlnx-ethtool

5.13-1.54368

GPL

mlnx-iproute2

5.11.0-1.54368

GPL

mlnx-nfsrdma

5.4-OFED.5.4.3.6.6.1

GPLv2

mlnx-nvme

5.4-OFED.5.4.3.6.6.1

GPLv2

mlnx-ofa_kernel

5.4-OFED.5.4.3.6.8.1

GPLv2

mlnx-tools

5.2.0-0.54368

GPLv2

mpi-selector

1.0.3-1.54368

BSD

mpitests

3.2.20-de56b6b.54368

BSD

mstflint

4.16.0-1.54368

GPL/BSD

multiperf

3.0-0.14.g5f0fd0e.54368

BSD 3-Clause, GPL v2 or later

ofed-docs

5.4-OFED.5.4.3.6.8

GPL/BSD

ofed-scripts

5.4-OFED.5.4.3.6.8

GPL/BSD

openmpi

4.1.2a1-1.54368

BSD

opensm

5.11.0.MLNX20220418.fd3d650-0.1.54368

GPLv2 or BSD

openvswitch

2.15.1-1.54368

ASL 2.0 and LGPLv2+ and SISSL

perftest

4.5-0.17.g6f25f23.54368

BSD 3-Clause, GPL v2 or later

rdma-core

54mlnx1-1.54368

GPLv2 or BSD

rshim

2.0.6-1.ga97dc5d

GPLv2

sharp

2.7.0.MLNX20220426.703f9a40-1.54368

Proprietary

sockperf

3.7-0.gita1e8e835a689.54368

BSD

srp

5.4-OFED.5.4.3.6.6.1

GPLv2

ucx

1.13.0-1.54368

BSD

xpmem

2.6.4-1.54368

GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1

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