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Mellanox OFED for Linux User’s Manual
Rev 1.5
Revision History
Rev 1.5 (March 29, 2010)
• Updated Figure 1,“Mellanox OFED Stack”
• Added support for ConnectX-2 devices
• Added support for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) – see Chapter 5, “RoCE”
• Modified Section 7.3.1, “How to Know SDP Is Working”
• Added Section 7.7, “Using RDMA for Small Buffers”
• Added support for NFS over RDMA (NFSoRDMA) – Chapter 9, “NFSoRDMA”
• Added Section 10.6.2, “Important Note on RoCE Support,” on page 103 in Chapter 10, “MPI”
• Modified Section 12.2.1, “opensm Syntax,” on page 111
• Added Chapter 13, “Adaptive Routing”
• Added ibdiagnet of ibutils2 and ibdump to Chapter 14, “InfiniBand Fabric Diagnostic Utilities”
• Appendix B is now called Mellanox FlexBoot (instead of BoIB). FlexBoot supports Virtual Protocol Interconnect™ (VPI)
• Added Section C.3, “System Performance Troubleshooting”
• Added the parameter setting “VIADEV_RENDEZVOUS_THRESHOLD=8192” to Section D.3, “MPI Performance Tuning”
Rev 1.40.1 Changes from 1.40 (March 19, 2009)
• Correction to text in Section 4.3, “IPoIB Configuration,” on page 51
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