Networking Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Driver Documentation

Changes and New Features


Component

Feature/Change

Description

ASAP2

CT with Header Rewrite

[BlueField-2] Added support for offloading CT rules with header rewrite of L3. 

VxLAN Group Based Policy (GBP) Offload

[ConnectX-6 Dx and above] Added support for hardware offload of VxLAN with GBP configured.

VDPA


Mergeable Buffer Support

[ConnectX-6 Dx and above] Added support for Enabled Mergeable Buffer feature on vdpa interfaces using vdpa tool to achieve better performance with large MTUs.

Posted Interrupts

[ConnectX-6 Dx and above] Added support for posted interrupts in mlx5_vdpa, allowing direct IRQ propagation from the NIC to vCPU within the guest.


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