User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Mellanox WinOF VPI User Manual
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Document Revision History
- About this Manual
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Firmware Upgrade
- 3 Driver Features
- 3.1 Hyper-V with VMQ
- 3.2 Header Data Split
- 3.3 Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- 3.4 Port Configuration
- 3.5 Load Balancing, Fail-Over (LBFO) and VLAN
- 3.6 Ports TX Arbitration
- 3.7 RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
- 3.8 Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation
- 3.9 Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)
- 4 Deploying Windows Server 2012 and Above with SMB Direct
- 5 Driver Configuration
- 6 Performance Tuning
- 7 OpenSM - Subnet Manager
- 8 InfiniBand Fabric
- 8.1 Network Direct Interface
- 8.2 part_man - Virtual IPoIB Port Creation Utility
- 8.3 InfiniBand Fabric Diagnostic Utilities
- 8.3.1 Utilities Usage
- 8.3.2 ibdiagnet
- 8.3.3 ibportstate
- 8.3.4 ibroute
- 8.3.5 ibdump
- 8.3.6 smpquery
- 8.3.7 perfquery
- 8.3.8 ibping
- 8.3.9 ibnetdiscover
- 8.3.10 ibtracert
- 8.3.11 sminfo
- 8.3.12 ibclearerrors
- 8.3.13 ibstat
- 8.3.14 vstat
- 8.3.15 osmtest
- 8.3.16 ibaddr
- 8.3.17 ibcacheedit
- 8.3.18 iblinkinfo
- 8.3.19 ibqueryerrors
- 8.3.20 ibsysstat
- 8.3.21 saquery
- 8.3.22 smpdump
- 8.4 InfiniBand Fabric Performance Utilities
- 8.4.1 ib_read_bw
- 8.4.2 ib_read_lat
- 8.4.3 ib_send_bw
- 8.4.4 ib_send_lat
- 8.4.5 ib_write_bw
- 8.4.6 ib_write_lat
- 8.4.7 ibv_read_bw
- 8.4.8 ibv_read_lat
- 8.4.9 ibv_send_bw
- 8.4.10 ibv_send_lat
- 8.4.11 ibv_write_bw
- 8.4.12 ibv_write_lat
- 8.4.13 nd_write_bw
- 8.4.14 nd_write_lat
- 8.4.15 nd_read_bw
- 8.4.16 nd_read_lat
- 8.4.17 nd_send_bw
- 8.4.18 nd_send_lat
- 8.4.19 NTttcp
- 9 Software Development Kit
- 10 Troubleshooting
- 11 Documentation
- Appendix A: Windows MPI (MS-MPI)
- Appendix B: NVGRE Configuration Scrips Examples
Rev 4.60
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Rev 4.40 June 10, 2013 Updated the following sections:
•
Section 2.2, “Downloading Mellanox Firmware
Tools”, on page 14
• Section 8, “InfiniBand Fabric”, on page 61
• Section 10, “Troubleshooting”, on page 124
• Section 11, “Documentation”, on page 128
• Section , “Options”, on page 48
Added the following sections:
• “perf_tuning”Appendix ,“Synopsys,” on page 48
•
Section , “”, on page 15
• Section 3.7.2, “RoCE Configuration”, on page 29
• Section 6.4, “Adapter Proprietary Performance
Counters”, on page 54
Rev 4.2 October 20, 2012 Added the following sections:
• Section 4, “Deploying Windows Server 2012 and
Above with SMB Direct”, on page 38
, and its subsec-
tions
• Section 3.2, “Header Data Split”, on page 16
• Section 8.2, “part_man - Virtual IPoIB Port Cre-
ation Utility”, on page 61
Updated Section 6, “Performance Tuning”, on page 45
Rev 3.2.0 July 23, 2012
• No changes
Rev 3.1.0 May 21, 2012
• Added section Tuning the IPoIB Network Adapter
• Added section Tuning the Ethernet Network Adapter
• Added section Performance tuning tool application
• Removed section Tuning the Network Adapter
• Removed section part_man
• Removed section ibdiagnet
Rev 3.0.0 February 08, 2012
• Added section RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and
its subsections
• Added section Hyper-V with VMQ
• Added section Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS)
• Added section Header Data Split
• Added section Auto Sensing
• Added section Adapter Teaming
• Added section Port Protocol Configuration
• Added section Advanced Configuration for InfiniBand Driver
• Added section Advanced Configuration for Ethernet Driver
• Added section Updated section Tunable Performance Parame-
ters
• Added section Merged Ethernet and InfiniBand features sec-
tions
• Removed section Sockets Direct Protocol and its subsections
• Removed section Winsock Direct and Protocol and its subsec-
tions
• Removed section Added ConnectX®-3 support
• Removed section IPoIB Drivers Overview
• Removed section Booting Windows from an iSCSI Target
Table 1 - Document Revision History
Document Revision Date Changes