User Manual Revision History

5.2

February 14, 2021

• Added Setting up MLNX_OFED YUM Repository Using --add-kernel-support section.

• Added Setting up MLNX_OFED apt-get Repository Using --add-kernel-support section.

January 19, 2021

Added OpenSSL with kTLS Offload section.

January 4, 2021

• Added Offloaded Traffic Sniffer section.

• Added Tx Port Time-Stamping section.

• Added VLAN Push/Pop section.

• Added sFLOW section.

• Added E2E Cache section.

• Added Geneve Encapsulation/Decapsulation section.

• Added Parallel Offloads section.

• Updated SR-IOV VF LAG section.

• Removed Installing MLNX_OFED on Innova™ IPsec Adapter Cards section.

• Removed Updating Firmware and FPGA Image on Innova IPsec Cards section.

5.1-2

September 17, 2020

Added Packet Pacing for Hairpin Queues section.

5.1

July 28, 2020

Updated the content of the entire document following the removal of support for ConnectX-3, ConnectX-3 Pro and Connect-IB adapter cards, as well as the deprecation of RDMA experimental verbs library (mlnx_lib).

Added SR-IOV Live Migration section.

Added SR-IOV VF LAG section.

5.0-2

April 23, 2020

Added Interrupt Request (IRQ) Naming section.

April 6, 2020

Added Kernel Transport Layer Security (kTLS) Offloads section.

5.0

March 3, 2020

• Added IPSec Crypto Offload section.

• Added OVS-DPDK Hardware Offloads section.

• Updated OVS Hardware Offloads Configuration section.

4.7

December 29, 2019

• Added Configuring Uplink Representor Mode section.

December 13, 2019

• Added Performance Tuning Based on Traffic Patterns section.

• Added "num_of_groups" entry to table mlx5_core Module Parameters.

• Added Mediated Devices section.

September 29, 2019

• Updated Additional Installation Procedures section.

4.6

May 13, 2019

• ethtool section updates: Added description of -f flashing option to Ethtool Supported Options table.

April 30, 2019

• ethtool section updates:

  • Updated the description of ethtool -s eth advertise autoneg on counter under Ethtool.

  • Added the following counters under Ethtool:

    • ethtool --show-fec eth

    • ethtool --set-fec eth encoding auto|off|rs|baser 

• Added Devlink Parameters section.

• Added Limit Bandwidth per Group of VFs section.

• Added Disabling RoCE section.

• Added RDMA-CM QP Timeout Control section.

• Added RDMA-CM Application Managed QP section.

4.5

December 19, 2018

• Reorganized Chapter 2, “Installation”: Consolidated the separate installation procedures under Installing Mellanox OFED and Additional Installation Procedures

• Added Installing NEO-Host Using mlnxofedinstall Script

November 29, 2018

Added the following sections:

• Local Loopback Disable

• Offsweep Balancing