NVIDIA MLNX_OFED Documentation v5.9-0.5.6.0.107
Linux Kernel Upstream Release Notes v5.17

General Support

Supported Operating Systems

Operating System

Architecture

Default Kernel Version (Primary)/

Tested with Kernel Version (Community)

OS Support Model

ASAP2 OVS-Kernel SR-IOV

ASAP2 OVS-DPDK SR-IOV

NFS over RDMA

NVMe

GPUDirect Storage (GDS)

UCX-CUDA Version

NEO-Host

Ubuntu20.04

x86_64

5.4.0-26-generic

Primary

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11.8

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Ubuntu22.04

x86_64

5.15.0-25-generic

Primary

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11.8

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Kernel 6.1

AArch64

6.1

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ppc64le

6.1

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6.1

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Warning
  • 32 bit platforms are no longer supported in MLNX_OFED

  • For RPM-based distributions, to install OFED on a different kernel, create a new ISO image using mlnx_add_kernel_support.sh script (see the MLNX_OFED User Manual for instructions)

  • Upgrading MLNX_OFED on a cluster requires upgrading all of its nodes to the newest version as well

  • If using MLNX_OFED 4.9 LTS with MLNX_OFED 5.x with upstream verbs, MLNX_OFED 4.9 must be installed with --upstream-libs flag so the verbs libraries match.

  • A combination of 4.9 LTS default verbs and MOFED 5.x upstream verbs is not supported.

  • All operating systems listed above are fully supported in Paravirtualized and SR-IOV environments with Linux KVM Hypervisor

This section reflects which versions were tested and verified for upgrade and downgrade.

Target Version

Versions Verified for Upgrade/Downgrade

Release Type

Release Date

5.9-0.5.6.0 GA

5.8- 1.1.2.1

GA-LTS (Update #1)

November 2022

5.7-1.0.2.0

GA

July 2022

This section reflects which versions were tested and verified for multi-version environments.

Target Version

Verified OFED Version Interoperability

Release Type

Release Date

5.9-0.5.6.0 GA

5.8- 1.1.2.1

GA-LTS (Update #1)

November 2022

Warning

As of version 5.1, ConnectX-3, ConnectX-3 Pro or Connect-IB adapter cards are no longer supported. To work with a version that supports these adapter cards, please refer to version 4.9 long-term support (LTS).

This current version is tested with the following NVIDIA adapter card firmware versions:

Adapter Card

Bundled Firmware Version

Comments

ConnectX-7

28.36.2020

This firmware version must be installed using the standalone binary files from the web.

For further information, see Known Issue 3392477 (Known Issues).

For the official firmware versions, please see https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/ → Support → Support → Firmware Download.

The following are the supported non-Linux Virtual Machines in this current version:

NIC

Windows Virtual Machine Type

Minimal WinOF Version

Protocol

ConnectX-4

Windows 2012 R2 DC

MLNX_WinOF2 2.50

IB, IPoIB, ETH

ConnectX-4 Lx

Windows 2016 DC

MLNX_WinOF2 2.50

IB, IPoIB, ETH

ConnectX-5 family

All Windows server editions

MLNX_WinOF2 2.50

IPoIB, ETH

ConnectX-6 family

MLNX_WinOF2 2.50

IPoIB, ETH

ASAP2 Requirements

  • iproute >= 4.12 (for tc support)

  • Upstream Open vSwitch >= 2.8 for CentOS 7.2 NVIDIA openvswitch

ASAP2-Supported Adapter Cards

  • ConnectX-5

  • ConnectX-6 Dx

  • ConnectX-6 Lx

  • ConnectX-7

  • Lustre 2.15.2

  • Lustre 2.12.9

  • Linux operating system

  • Administrator privileges on your machine(s)

  • Disk Space: 1GB

For the OFED Distribution to compile on your machine, some software packages of your operating system (OS) distribution are required.
To install the additional packages, run the following commands per OS:

Operating System

Required Packages Installation Command

RHEL/Oracle Linux/Fedora

yum install perl pciutils python gcc-gfortran libxml2-python tcsh libnl.i686 libnl expat glib2 tcl libstdc++ bc tk gtk2 atk cairo numactl pkgconfig ethtool lsof

XenServer

yum install perl pciutils python libxml2-python libnl expat glib2 tcl bc libstdc++ tk pkgconfig ethtool

SLES 12

zypper install pkg-config expat libstdc++6 libglib-2_0-0 lib- gtk-2_0-0 tcl libcairo2 tcsh python bc pciutils libatk-1_0-0 tk python-libxml2 lsof libnl3-200 ethtool lsof

SLES 15

python ethtool libatk-1_0-0 python2-libxml2-python tcsh lib- stdc++6-devel-gcc7 libgtk-2_0-0 tcl libopenssl1_1 libnl3-200 make libcairo2 expat libmnl0 insserv-compat pciutils lsof lib- glib-2_0-0 pkg-config tk

Ubuntu/Debian

apt-get install perl dpkg autotools-dev autoconf libtool auto- make1.10 automake m4 dkms debhelper tcl tcl8.4 chrpath swig graphviz tcl-dev tcl8.4-dev tk-dev tk8.4-dev bison flex dpatch zlib1g-dev curl libcurl4-gnutls-dev python-libxml2 libvirt-bin libvirt0 libnl-dev libglib2.0-dev libgfortran3 automake m4

pkg-config libnuma logrotate ethtool lsof

The following are the unsupported functionalities/features/NICs in the current version:

  • ConnectX-2 adapter card

  • ConnectX-3 adapter card

  • ConnectX-3 Pro adapter card

  • Connect-IB adapter card

  • Soft-RoCE

  • RDMA experimental verbs library (mlnx_lib)

  • CIFS (Common Internet File System) module installation.

  • Relational Database Service (RDS)

  • mthca InfiniBand driver

  • Ethernet IPoIB (eIPoIB)

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