Ubuntu Driver Documentation

General Support

Supported Uplinks to Servers

This version supports the following uplinks to servers.

Uplink/Adapter Card

Driver Name

Uplink Speed

BlueField-2

mlx5

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2, 200GbE

BlueField

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE

ConnectX-6 Lx

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2

ConnectX-6 Dx

  • Ethernet: 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2, 200GbE2

ConnectX-6

  • InfiniBand: SDR, DDR, QDR, FDR, EDR, HDR100, HDR

  • Ethernet: 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE2, 100GbE2, 200GbE2

ConnectX-5/ConnectX-5 Ex

  • InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR, FDR10, EDR

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 100GbE

ConnectX-4 Lx

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE

ConnectX-4

  • InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR, FDR10, EDR

  • Ethernet: 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 50GbE, 56GbE1, 100GbE

Innova™ IPsec EN

  • Ethernet: 10GbE, 40GbE

Connect-IB®

  • InfiniBand: SDR, QDR, FDR10, FDR

  1. 56GbE is an NVIDIA proprietary link speed and can be achieved while connecting an NVIDIA adapter card to NVIDIA SX10XX switch series or when connecting an NVIDIA adapter card to another NVIDIA adapter card.

  2. Speed that supports both NRZ and PAM4 modes in Force mode and Auto-Negotiation mode.

  3. Speed that supports PAM4 mode only.

  • BlueField is supported as a standard ConnectX-5 Ethernet NIC only. 

  • BlueField2 is supported as a standard ConnectX-6 Dx Ethernet NIC only.

Supported Adapter Card Firmware Versions

This version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) driver supports the following NVIDIA network adapter card firmware versions.

HCA 

Recommended Firmware Rev. 

BlueField®-2  

24.33.1048 

BlueField  

18.33.1048 

ConnectX®-6 Lx 

26.33.1048 

ConnectX-6 Dx​ 

22.33.1048 

ConnectX-6 

20.33.1048 

ConnectX-5 

16.33.1048  

ConnectX-4 Lx 

14.32.1010 

ConnectX-4 

12.28.2006 

Innova IPsec EN

14.22.1002

Connect-IB

10.16.1002

SR-IOV Support

Driver

Support

mlx4_core, mlx4_en, mlx4_ib

Ethernet
InfiniBand: Technical Preview

mlx5_core (includes Ethernet functionality), mlx5_ib

Ethernet
InfiniBand: Technical Preview

RoCE Support

Driver

Support

mlx4—RoCE v1/v2

Yes

mlx5—RoCE v1/v2

Yes

VXLAN Support

Driver

Support

mlx4—VXLAN offload

Yes

mlx5—VXLAN offload

Yes (without RSS)

DPDK Support

Driver

Support

mlx4

NVIDIA PMD is enabled by default.

mlx5

NVIDIA PMD is enabled by default.

Open vSwitch Hardware Offloads Support

Driver

Support

mlx4

No

mlx5

Yes


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