Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
- QLogic Everest Driver for RDMA protocols (RoCE, and soon iWARP too)
+ QLogic Everest Driver for RDMA protocols (RoCE, iWARP)
QLogic Corporation
- Copyright (c) 2014-2017 QLogic Corporation
+ Copyright (c) 2014-2018 QLogic Corporation
+ OFED 4.17 Release Notes
- OFED 4.18-2 Release Notes
-
- December 2018
+ September 2018
Table of Contents
Introduction
Link speed
Device configuration
- Supported kernels / distros / OFED
Supported software
RoCE v2 support
CPU affinity
series of converged network interface cards. The RDMA driver is designed to work
in OFED environment in conjunction with the QED core module and the QEDE
Ethernet module. In addition, userspace applications require that the libqedr
-user library be installed on the server.
-
+user library be installed on the server as part of the rdma-core package.
+The RDMA driver supports both RoCE and iWARP, which protocol will run is determined
+in NVRAM.
+Make sure you choose the 'qedr' and 'libqedr' options when generating your OFED rpms.
+
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+New for OFED-4.17
+============================================
+Add iWARP support. Which protocol will run is determined in NVRAM.
+Many bug fixes. Both RoCE and iWARP are much more stable.
+Advanced FW version to 8.37.2.0
Link speed
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configuration tools and via the userspace configuration application.
-Supported kernels / distros
-===========================
- RHEL 7.0, 7.1, 7.2
- CentOS 7.0, 7.1, 7.2
- SLES12 SP1, SP2, SP3
-
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Supported software
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Below is the list of benchmark and test applications tested with this driver:
note: it is recommend not to unload qedr (or any other RDMA driver for that
matter) while a RoCE application or ULP is running.
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RoCE v2 support
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