Update ipoib and mlx4 release notes]

----- Forwarded message from Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il> -----

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:08:41 +0200
From: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il>
To: vlad@mellanox.co.il
Subject: [PATCH] Update ipoib and mlx4 release notes
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il>

diff --git a/ipoib_release_notes.txt b/ipoib_release_notes.txt
index ec5c05f3f91c49ddaed97f354e26f8ddd8b2734b..8e22ce411392312c23932d75973af4b73c3ca69d 100644 (file)
--- a/ipoib_release_notes.txt
+++ b/ipoib_release_notes.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ Table of Contents
 8. Bug Fixes and Enhancements Since OFED 1.4
 9. Bug Fixes and Enhancements Since OFED 1.4.2
 10. Bug Fixes and Enhancements Since OFED 1.5.0
-11. Performance tuning
+11. Bug Fixes and Enhancements Since OFED 1.5.2
+12. Performance tuning
 
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 1. Overview
@@ -445,7 +446,13 @@ significant bit set (e.g., 0x8000 in the example above).
   transmitter can be stopped by the CM path but not re-enabled.
 
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-11. Performance Tuning
+11. Bug Fixes and Enhancements Since OFED 1.5.2
+===============================================================================
+1. Fix IPoIB rx_frames and rx_usecs to conform to ethtool documentation.
+
+
+===============================================================================
+12. Performance Tuning
 ===============================================================================
 When IPoIB is configured to run in connected mode, tcp parameter tuning is
 performed at driver startup to improve the throughput of medium and large

diff --git a/mlx4_release_notes.txt b/mlx4_release_notes.txt
index af6cc0dfd83098cf8beb8961eb94294d0d85c9e5..d1ea2a13870908656ba4ff6fe0d45eaef9e8df0b 100644 (file)
--- a/mlx4_release_notes.txt
+++ b/mlx4_release_notes.txt
@@ -252,14 +252,26 @@ Bug Fixes
 11.1 Changes and new features
 -----------------------------
 1. RoCE counters are now added to the regular Ethernet counters. The counters
-for RoCE specific traffic are at the same place are not changed.
+for RoCE specific traffic are at the same place and are not changed.
+2. Forward any vendor ID SMP MADs to firmware for handling.
+3. Add blue flame support for kernel consumers. This allows lower latencies to
+be achieved. To use blue flame, a consumer needs to create the QP with inline
+support.
 
 11.2 Bug fixes
 --------------
-1. Fix race when reading node desctiption through MADs.
-2. Fix modify CQ so each of moderation paramters is independent.
+1. Fix race when reading node desctription through MADs.
+2. Fix modify CQ so each of moderation parameters is independent.
 3. Limit the number of fast registration work requests to match HW capabilities.
-
+4 Changes to node-description via sysfs are now propagated to FW (for FW
+2.8.000 and later).  This enables FW to send a 144 trap to OpenSM regarding the
+change, so that OpenSM can read that nodes updated description.  This fixes an
+old race condition, where OpenSM read the nodes description before it was
+changed during driver startup.
+5. Fix max fast registration WRs that can be posted to CX.
+6. Fix port speed reporting for RoCE ports.
+7. Limit GID entries for VLAN to match hardware capabilities.
+8. Fix RoCE link state report.
 
 
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