This User Manual describes installation, configuration and operation of NVIDIA® WinOF-2 driver. features, performance, diagnostic tools, content and configuration. Additionally, this document provides information on various performance tools supplied with this version.
NVIDIA® WinOF-2 is composed of several software modules that contain InfiniBand and Ethernet drivers. It supports 10, 25, 40, 50, 100 and 200Gb/s Ethernet, and DDR, FDR, EDR, HDR, or NDR InfiniBand network ports. The port type and speed are determined upon boot based on card capabilities and user settings.
The NVIDIA® WinOF-2 driver release introduces the following capabilities:
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General capabilities:Support for Single and multiple ports AdaptersReceive Side Scaling (RSS)Hardware Tx/Rx checksum offloadLarge Send Offload (LSO)UDP Segmentation Offload (USO)Dynamic Interrupt ModerationSupport for MSI-X interruptsNetwork Direct Kernel (NDK) with support for SMBDirectVirtual Machine Queue (VMQ) for Hyper-VSingle Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)Receive Side ScalingChecksum OffloadsQuality of Service (QoS)Support for global flow control and Priority Flow Control (PFC)Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)
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Ethernet capabilities:Receive Side Coalescing (RSC)Hardware VLAN filteringRDMA over Converged EthernetRoCE MAC Based (v1) RoCE MAC IP (v1.5) RoCE over UDP (v2)VXLANNDKPI v2.0, v3.0VMMQPacketDirect Provider Interface (PDPI)NVGRE hardware encapsulation task offload
For the complete list of Ethernet and InfiniBand Known Issues and Limitations, refer to the latest Release Notes.
Intended Audience
This manual is intended for system administrators responsible for the installation, configuration, management and maintenance of the software and hardware of Ethernet and InfiniBand adapter cards. It is also intended for application developers.
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