Overview
The NVIDIA® Accelerated IO (XLIO) SW library boosts the performance of TCP/IP applications based on NGINX (CDN, DoH Etc.) and storage solutions as part of the SPDK.
Coupling XLIO with the acceleration capabilities of NVIDIA ConnectX®-6 Dx, NVIDIA ConnectX®-7, or NVIDIA Bluefield®-3 data processing unit (DPU) provides breakthrough performance of Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption/decryption. It also enables working with features such as HW LRO/TSO and Striding-RQ which increase TCP performance, without application code changes and using a standard socket API.
XLIO is an open-source project - see its repository here.
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System Requirements
The following table presents the currently certified combinations of stacks and platforms and supported CPU architectures for the current XLIO version.
Specification | Value |
Network Adapter Cards | NVIDIA Bluefield-3, 200 GbE, Dual Port, 32GB RAM |
NVIDIA ConnectX-7, 200 GbE, Dual Port | |
NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx, 100GbE, Dual Port | |
Firmware | BlueField-3 32.45.1020 |
ConnectX-7 28.45.1020 | |
ConnectX-6 Dx 22.45.1020 | |
Driver Stack |
NOTE : Starting this version, the host driver is part of the NVIDIA DOCA package. For further information, please see NVIDIA MLNX_OFED to DOCA-OFED Transition Guide . |
Supported Operating Systems and Kernels |
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CPU Architecture | x86_64, Arm (on NVIDIA BlueField-3 and NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hoppera) |
Minimum memory requirements | 1 GB of free memory for installation 800 MB per process running with XLIO |
Minimum disk space requirements | 1 GB |
Transport | Ethernet |
a. NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper is only supported with Ubuntu 22.04.
Document Revision History
For the list of changes made to this document, refer to User Manual Revision History.