Mellanox MLNX_OFED 2.1 is released

Product Updates

1. Mellanox OFED Version 2.1-1.0.0 for Linux Driver is now available.

The release has the following new features:

• Signature Verbs (T10-PI) (beta level) RoCE Time Stamping
• PeerDirect™
• Inline-Receive
• Ethernet performance counters
• Memory window
• VMA 6.5.9 bundled with MLNX_OFED
• DCT support (at beta level)
• eIPoIB multicast support
• Connect-IB – Added the ability to resize CAs
• GA support for ConnectX-3 Pro
• IPoIB – Reusing DMA mapped SKB buffers
• IPoIB – Performance improvements when IOMMU is enabled
• mlnx_en – reporting auto-negotiation support
• mlnx_en – Trans00mit Packet Steering (XPS) support
• mlnx_en – reporting 56GbE link speed support
• mlnx_en – Receive Flow Steering (RFS) support in UDP
• mlnx_en – Low latency Socket (LLS) support
• mlnx_en – check for dma_mapping errors
• eIPoIB – non-virtualized environment support

Related Links

1. MLNX_OFED 2.1-1.0.0 Product Page
2. MLNX_OFED 2.1-1.0.0 Driver Compatibility Matrix
3. MLNX_OFED 2.1-1.0.0 Release Notes
4. MLNX_OFED 2.1-1.0.0 User Manual

For more information,

1. See Mellanox Product Updates 21 Jan 2014