From fab5d8e3d3b87fcf8bc496ea1024d3ab9a95db2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tziporet Koren Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:04:27 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update for 1.4.1 Signed-off-by: Tziporet Koren --- MLNX_EN_README.txt | 7 ++++--- OFED_release_notes.txt | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- mlx4_release_notes.txt | 15 --------------- 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/MLNX_EN_README.txt b/MLNX_EN_README.txt index e8e0712..01d043a 100644 --- a/MLNX_EN_README.txt +++ b/MLNX_EN_README.txt @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ =============================================================================== MLNX_EN driver for Mellanox Adapter Cards with 10GigE Support - README for OFED 1.4 + README for MLNX_OFED 1.4 - December 2008 + March 2009 =============================================================================== Contents: @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ The MLNX_EN driver release exposes the following capabilities: - HW Tx/Rx checksum calculation - Large Send Offload (i.e., TCP Segmentation Offload) - Large Receive Offload +- IP reassembly offload for fragmented IP packets - Multi-core NAPI support - VLAN Tx/Rx acceleration (HW VLAN stripping/insertion) - HW VLAN filtering @@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ The MLNX_EN driver release exposes the following capabilities: #> ethtool -i eth2 driver: mlx4_en (MT_0BD0110004) version: 1.4.0 (Dec 2008) - firmware-version: 2.5.952 + firmware-version: 2.6.0 bus-info: 0000:0e:00.0 - To query stateless offload status run: diff --git a/OFED_release_notes.txt b/OFED_release_notes.txt index 47916b5..3768040 100644 --- a/OFED_release_notes.txt +++ b/OFED_release_notes.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) - Version 1.4 - Release Notes - December 2008 + Version 1.4.1-rc3 + Release Notes + April 2009 =============================================================================== @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Table of Contents - Third party Test Packages - OFED sources 2. Main Changes from OFED 1.3 +3. Main Changes from OFED 1.4 4. Known Issues @@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ The OFED package contains the following components: Notes: 1. iSER target is of Beta quality. -2. NFS-RDMA is at technology preview state, thus it is not installed by default. +2. NFS-RDMA is at Beta, thus it is not installed by default. 2. All other OFED components are of production quality. 3. See release notes for each package in the docs directory. 4. Any Topspin copyright belongs to Cisco Systems, Inc. @@ -78,10 +79,12 @@ Notes: - RedHat EL5: 2.6.18-8.el5 - RedHat EL5 up1: 2.6.18-53.el5 - RedHat EL5 up2: 2.6.18-92.el5 + - RedHat EL5 up3: 2.6.18-128.el5 - Fedora C9: 2.6.25-14.fc9 * - SLES10: 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp - SLES10 SP1: 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp - SLES10 SP2: 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp + - SLES11: 2.6.27.19-5-default - OpenSuSE 10.3: 2.6.22.5-31 * - OEL 4 up7 2.6.9-78.ELsmp - OEL 5 up2 2.6.18-92.el5 @@ -232,7 +235,25 @@ for each package in the docs directory. - Updated IMB 3.1 =============================================================================== -3. Known Issues +3. Main Changes from OFED 1.4 +=============================================================================== +- Added support for RHEL 5.3 and SLES11 RC3 +- NFS/RDMA: In beta qaulity with backports for RHEL 5.2, 5.3 and SLES 10 SP2 +- Updated MPI packages: + mvapich-1.1.0-3143 + Open MPI 1.3.1 +- Updated bonding package: ib-bonding-0.9.0-38 +- Updated DAPL: compat-dapl-1.2.13 and dapl-2.0.16 +- Updated opensm version to include critical bug fixes +- Fixed RDS iWARP support +- Low level drivers updated: ehca, mlx4, cxgb3, nes, ipath +- Added a module parameter to control number of MTTs per segment in Mellanox + HCAs (mlx4 & mthca) +- mstfling update +- Bug fixes + +=============================================================================== +4. Known Issues =============================================================================== The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various components of the OFED 1.4 release. diff --git a/mlx4_release_notes.txt b/mlx4_release_notes.txt index 845de86..709037c 100644 --- a/mlx4_release_notes.txt +++ b/mlx4_release_notes.txt @@ -183,23 +183,8 @@ mlx4_en parameters: rss_xor: Use XOR hash function for RSS 0 (default is xor) rss_mask: RSS hash type bitmask (default is 0xf) num_lro: Number of LRO sessions per ring or disabled (0) (default is 32) - pptx: Pause policy on TX: 0 never generate pause frames 1 generate pause - frames according to RX buffer threshold (default is 1) - pprx: Pause policy on RX: 0 ignore received pause frames 1 respect received - pause frames (default is 1) pfctx: Priority based Flow Control policy on TX[7:0]. Per priority bit mask (default is 0) pfcrx: Priority based Flow Control policy on RX[7:0]. Per priority bit mask (default is 0) - rx_moder_cnt: Max coalesced descriptors for Rx interrupt moderation - (default is 0x20000 / mtu) - rx_moder_time: Timeout following last packet for Rx interrupt moderation - (default is 0x10) - auto_moder: Enable dynamic interrupt moderation (default is 1) - rx_ring_num1: Number or Rx rings for port 1 (0 = #cores) (default is 0) - rx_ring_num2: Number or Rx rings for port 2 (0 = #cores) (default is 0) - tx_ring_size1: Tx ring size for port 1 (default is 1024) - tx_ring_size2: Tx ring size for port 2 (default is 1024) - rx_ring_size1: Rx ring size for port 1 (default is 1024) - rx_ring_size2: Rx ring size for port 2 (default is 1024) inline_thold: treshold for using inline data (default is 128) -- 2.46.0