Important Notes
SR-IOV - Virtual Functions (VF) per Port - The maximum Virtual Functions (VF) per port is 127. For further information, see Known Issues.
It is recommended to enable the "above 4G decoding" BIOS setting for features that require a large amount of PCIe resources (e.g., SR-IOV with numerous VFs, PCIe Emulated Switch, Large BAR Requests).
Security Hardening Enhancements: This release contains important reliability improvements and security hardening enhancements. NVIDIA recommends upgrading your devices' firmware to this release to improve the devices’ firmware security and reliability.
Changes and New Feature in this Firmware Version
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Feature/Change |
Description |
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22.38.1002 |
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INT Packets |
Added support for forwarding INT packets to the user application for monitoring purposes by matching the BTH acknowledge request bit (bth_a). |
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IPsec CPS Bulk Allocation |
Improved the IPsec CPS by using bulk allocation. For cases in which For better performance, it is recommended to work with IPsec bulk allocation and to initialize IPsec ASO context not via the firmware but via the hardware using ASO WQE. |
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QKEY Mitigation in the Kernel |
Non-privileged users are now blocked by default from setting controlled/privileged QKEYs (QKEY with MSB set). |
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Bug Fixes |
See Bug Fixes in this Firmware Version section. |
Unsupported Features and Commands
Unsupported Features
The following advanced feature are unsupported in the current firmware version:
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The following service types:
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SyncUMR
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Mellanox transport
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RAW IPv6
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INT-A not supported for EQs only MSI-X
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PCI VPD write flow (RO flow supported)
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Streaming Receive Queue (STRQ) and collapsed CQ
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Subnet Manager (SM) on VFs
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RoCE LAG in Multi-Host/Socket-Direct
Unsupported Commands
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QUERY_MAD_DEMUX
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SET_MAD_DEMUX
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CREATE_RQ - MEMORY_RQ_RMP
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MODIFY_LAG_ASYNC_EVENT
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