ConnectX 6 Family Firmware Release Notes

Bug Fixes History


This section includes history of fixed bugs of 3 major releases back. For older releases history, please refer to the relevant firmware versions.



Internal Ref.

Issue

3308132



Description: Improved physical layer performance by modifying transmitter parameters that caused link up time issues when connected to few optical cable vendors.

Keywords: Optical cables, performance

Discovered in Version: 

22.35.1012

Fixed in Release: 

22.35.2302

Internal Ref.

Issue

3217896



Description: Fixed RDE PATCH operation status code reported in case the property is "read-only".

Keywords: RDE

Discovered in Version: 

22.35.1012

Fixed in Release: 

22.35.2000

3241357



Description: Fixed an issue in MCTP-over-PCIe, where the VDM message with the type Route-to-Root Complex, the target ID was not set as 0x0. 

Keywords: MCTP-over-PCIe, VDM message

Discovered in Version: 

22.35.1012

Fixed in Release: 

22.35.2000

3215393



Description: Fixed an issue that caused the virtual QoS mechanism to stop traffic from reaching the full line rate of 200GbE on each direction when LAG was enabled.

Keywords: Virtual QoS mechanism, 200GbE, LAG

Discovered in Version: 

22.35.1012

Fixed in Release: 

22.35.2000

3218394



Description: Fixed pre-copy issues that occurred when in live migration.

Keywords: Live migration, pre-copy

Discovered in Version: 

22.35.1012

Fixed in Release: 

22.35.2000

Internal Ref.

Issue

3177699



Description: Improved both TP1a compliance and Physical-layer performance. TX and PLL settings were changed to comply with IEEE 802.3bs TP1a and improved link margins. 

Keywords: Performance

Discovered in Version: 

22.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 

22.35.1012

3227873



Description: Fixed an issue that caused RDE (Redfish) PATCH operation to LLDPTransmit properties "ManagementAddressIPv4", "ManagementAddressIPv6" and "ManagementAddressMAC" to be applied only in the first attempt but failed in the next.

Keywords: RDE (Redfish) PATCH operation

Discovered in Version: 

22.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 

22.35.1012

3172302



Description: Fixed an issue that caused the commands sent by the MLNX_OFED driver to the NIC to fail when loading the VirtIO driver. 

Keywords: vDPA, virtio-net full emulation

Discovered in Version: 

22.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 

22.35.1012

3180138



Description: Enabled the firmware to distribute loopback QPs/SQs between all LAG ports during the initial distribution in steering LAG.

Keywords: Loopback QPs/SQs

Discovered in Version: 

22.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 

22.35.1012

3056546



Description: Fixed an issue that due to a firmware limitation, enabling tx_port_ts resulted in syndrome 0x5d2974.

Keywords: tx_port_ts

Discovered in Version: 

22.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 

22.35.1012

3184625




Description: Fixed an issue that caused PLDM AEN event receiver media to be changed unexpectedly and destination BDF to be overridden with garbage when some PLDM packet were received from the SMBus layer.

Keywords: PLDM AEN event receiver media

Discovered in Version: 

22.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 

22.35.1012

3194359



Description: Fixed PCIe SKP OS generation interval for Gen1 and Gen2.

Keywords: PCIe SKP

Discovered in Version: 

22.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 

22.35.1012

3110378




Description: CPU handling synchronization requires separation (run ptp4l with taskset -c [cpu #] prefix) while running heavy traffic. 

Keywords: CPU allocation, PTP synchronization 

Discovered in Version:

22.34.1002

Fixed in Release: 

22.35.1012

3177570




Description: Changed the Tx setting for optics HDR to improve compliance margins.

Keywords: Tx setting, HDR, compliance margins

Discovered in Version:

22.33.1048

Fixed in Release: 

22.35.1012

Internal Ref.

Issue

2785026



Description: Fixed a rare case that caused the QP not to receive a completion.

Keywords: QP

Discovered in Version:

22.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 

22.33.1048

2899540



Description: Resolved vDPA traffic unbalance issue in active-backup VF LAG mode. 

Keywords: VDPA, LAG

Discovered in Version:

22.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 

22.33.1048

2802943



Description: Implemented SLD detection code. Surprise Down Error Reporting Capable value was changed from 1 to 0 in boards where the downstream perst was not controlled thus causing SLD detection not to function properly.

Keywords: SLD detection, Surprise Down Error Reporting Capable

Discovered in Version:

22.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 

22.33.1048

2900228



Description: Fixed an issue that occured after powering off DC in Multi-Host system which resulted in OOB connection to the BMC getting lost (and fatal error appeared) due to a firmware bug in the PCIe flush flow. The issue was fixed by increasing the flush time and not waiting for PCIe credits to return to default values.

Keywords: PCIe LTSSM, surprise power down

Discovered in Version:

22.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 

22.33.1048

2373274



Description: Fixed a rare HW/FW timing race of serdes' power-up sequence.

Keywords: Power consumption

Discovered in Version:

22.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 

22.33.1048

2513453



Description: Fixed rare lanes skew issue that caused CPU to timeout in Rec.idle.

Keywords: PCIe

Discovered in Version:

22.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 

22.33.1048

2903895



Description: Fixed an issue that resulted in temporary packet drops while changing PTP/FCS configuration when the links were up.

Keywords: PTP/FCS configuration, packet drops

Discovered in Version:

22.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 

22.33.1048

2932436



Description: Optimized the virtio data path to reach line speed for Tx bandwidth.

Keywords: VDPA, virtio full emulation

Discovered in Version:

22.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 

22.33.1048

2979683



Description: Fixed an issue that resulted in notification indicator mistakenly being reported as FATAL thus, raising false indication.

Keywords: FATAL error indication

Discovered in Version:

22.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 

22.33.1048

2951894



Description: Fixed bad cache invalidations of destroyed QPs.

Keywords: destroy_qp

Discovered in Version:

22.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 

22.33.1048

2907707



Description: Fixed a configuration issue which flipped the MSB of Partition Key field in CNP packets and led to P_KEY mismatch between CNP packets and regular packets.

Keywords: Partition Key, PKEY, CNP, ECN

Discovered in Version:

22.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 

22.33.1048

2788388



Description: Fixed an issue that resulted in wrong port calibration due to incorrect mapping of the port during initialization stage.

Keywords: Port mapping

Discovered in Version:

22.32.1010

Fixed in Release: 

22.33.1048





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