NVIDIA MLNX-OS User Manual v3.10.4100 (LTS)
NVIDIA MLNX-GW User Manual for NVIDIA Skyway Appliance v8.2.2200

UNBREAKABLE-LINK® Adapter and Switch Technology

NVIDIA adapter, switch, and interconnect products support a unique UNBREAKABLE-LINK® technology that ensures the network links stay connected (operational) even in a bad connectivity environment.

MLNX-OS offers PHY profile configuration for InfiniBand interfaces. PHY profile includes Link Level Retransmission (LLR) configuration. A PHY profile is bound to any InfiniBand interface.

Link Level Retransmission (LLR) is used on signal integrity marginal systems to decrease and/or eliminate the impact of physical errors on the system’s performance.

LLR transmitter breaks the transmitted Layer 2 data stream into Cells and adds a CRC checksum to each cell.

LLR receiver checks the Cell CRC, in case there is no CRC errors, it forwards the cell and acknowledges the peer.

If a cell is dropped by the receiver the transmitter retransmits the cell.

Warning

LLR is a NVIDIA proprietary feature and will only work with NVIDIA-to-NVIDIA ports.

Warning

LLR is not operational for cables longer then 30m.

The following LLR modes are applicable per port per speed:

  • disable—no LLR

  • enable—the port becomes passive, only if it got a request to use LLR it activates, otherwise it remains disabled

  • enable-request—the port becomes active, it keeps sending LLR requests to the peer

Both ports on the link perform LLR discovery and negotiation. In order the LLR to be in active state on the link, the following should apply:

  • One port must be configured with LLR “enable-request” on the specified speed.

  • The other port (peer) may be configured with LLR “enable-request” or “enable” on the same specified speed

    Warning

    If both the local port and remote port configured with LLR “enabled” the LLR negotiation will not be activated—the ports will remain in LLR in-active state.

LLR status is a port parameter that states the current state of the LLR.

  • Active—LLR is operationally running

  • In-Active—LLR is not running

show interfaces ib llr

show interfaces ib [<number>] llr

Displays LLR status

Syntax Description

number

The interface number

Default

N/A

Configuration Mode

Any command mode

History

3.2.0500

Example

switch (config) # show interfaces ib llr
-----------------------------
Interface LLR status
-----------------------------
IB1/1 Inactive
IB1/2 Inactive
IB1/3 Inactive
IB1/4 Inactive
IB1/5 Inactive
IB1/6 Inactive
IB1/7 Inactive
IB1/8 Inactive
IB1/9 Inactive
IB1/10 Inactive
IB1/11 Inactive
IB1/12 Inactive
IB1/13 Inactive
...

Related Commands

Notes

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