Document Conventions and Related Documents
This section describes the conventions, abbreviations and acronyms used in this documentation. It also lists resources for additional related information.
Description |
Convention |
Example |
File names |
file_name.extension |
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Directory names |
directory |
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Commands and their parameters |
command param1 |
mts3610-1 > show hosts |
Required item |
< > |
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Optional item |
[ ] |
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Mutually exclusive parameters |
{ p1, p2, p3 } or {p1 | p2 | p3} |
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Optional mutually exclusive parameters |
[ p1 | p2 | p3 ] |
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Variables for which users supply specific values |
Italic font |
enable |
Emphasized words |
Italic font |
These are emphasized words |
Abbreviation / Acronym |
Whole Word / Description |
b |
(Lower case) ‘b’ is used to indicate size in bits or multiples of bits (e.g., 1Kb = 1024 bits) |
B |
(Capital) ‘B’ is used to indicate size in bytes or multiples of bytes (e.g., 1KB = 1024 bytes, and 1MB = 1048576 bytes) |
EoIB |
Ethernet over InfiniBand |
FW |
Firmware |
HCA |
Host Channel Adapter |
HW |
Hardware |
IB |
InfiniBand |
IPoIB |
IP over InfiniBand |
lsb |
Least significant bit |
LSB |
Least significant byte |
MPI |
Message Passing Interface |
msb |
Most significant bit |
MSB |
Most significant byte |
NIC |
Network Interface Card |
NVGRE |
Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation |
PFC |
Priority Flow Control |
PR |
Path Record |
QoS |
Quality of Service |
RDS |
Reliable Datagram Sockets |
RoCE |
RDMA over Converged Ethernet |
SL |
Service Level |
SW |
Software |
TC |
Traffic Class |
ULP |
Upper Level Protocol |
VL |
Virtual Lane |
VPI |
Virtual Protocol Interconnect |
Document |
Description |
MFT User Manual |
Describes the set of firmware management tools for a single InfiniBand node. MFT can be used for: • Generating a standard or customized Mellanox firmware image Querying for firmware information • Burning a firmware image to a single InfiniBand node • Enabling changing card configuration to support SR-IOV |
WinOF Release Notes |
For possible software issues, please refer to WinOF Release Notes. |
MLNX OFED User Manual |
For more information on SR-IOV over KVM, please refer to the MLNX_OFED User Manual. |
InfiniBand™ Architecture Specification, Volume 1, Release 1.2.1 |
The InfiniBand Specification by IBTA |