Changes and New Features
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Component |
Feature/Change |
Description |
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ASAP2 |
CT with Header Rewrite |
[BlueField-2] Added support for offloading CT rules with header rewrite of L3. |
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VxLAN Group Based Policy (GBP) Offload |
[ConnectX-6 Dx and above] Added support for hardware offload of VxLAN with GBP configured. |
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VDPA |
Mergeable Buffer Support |
[ConnectX-6 Dx and above] Added support for extending the list of features reported by mlx5_vdpa to the virtio driver to include VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF. |
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VDPA Kernel |
[ConnectX-6 Dx and above] Added support for posted interrupts in mlx5_vdpa, allowing direct IRQ propagation from the NIC to vCPU within the guest OS. |
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Core |
QEMU Support for Device Dirty Page Tracking |
[ConnectX-7 and above] Added support for QEMU to do device dirty page tracking during migration. This allows QEMU to use this capability to mark only the pages that were actually dirtied by the device as dirty, instead of the entire memory. This significantly improves migration downtime and makes migration feasible. |
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netdev |
XDP Enhancements |
[ConnectX-5 and above] Implemented the following modifications in XDP in order to enhance performance:
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