Change Log History

Feature/Change

Description

4.22.73.1004

Adapter Cards

Added support for Nvidia ConnectX-7 adapter cards.

Debuggability

Firmware CR dump will now be collected automatically into ZDUMP PSOD or on livedump for debuggability purposes.

Reading Temperature Sensors

Enables the driver to read the temperature from private statistics.

To see the temperature, run:

# nsxdp-cli ens uplink stats get -n vmnic1 | grep -i asicSensorTemperature

Hardware Accelerated RoCE Encapsulation

Added support for Hardware Accelerated GENEVE and VXLAN encapsulation and decapsulation for RoCE traffic.

Hardware Accelerated Packet Capture

Hardware accelerated flows can now be mirrored using the standard packet capture tools.

Hardware Accelerated NSX Distributed Firewall

Added the ability to offload NSX Distributed Firewall rules by using in-hardware tracking of packet flows.

Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for ENS Model 0 and Model 1

RSS support for ENS Model 1 improves performance using fewer CPU cores.

This capability can be enabled using the "netq_rss_ens" module parameter.

Feature/Change

Description

4.22.72.1

vSan over RDMA

Added support for vSan over RDMA.

For further information, see https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/03/24/vsan-over-rdma-hyperconverged-solution/

ENS model 0 RSS

Added support for Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for ENS model 0.

ENS model 1 level 1

[ConnectX-5 onwards] Added support for ENS FPO Model 1 with Rx path flow lookup offloaded.

ENS model 1 level 2

[ConnectX-5 onwards] Added support for ENS FPO Model 1 with Tx path partial action execution offloaded.

ENS model 2A

[ConnectX-5 onwards] Added support for ENS FPO Model 2 with SR-IOV as passthrough technology.

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