User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Mellanox WinOF VPI User Manual
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Document Revision History
- About this Manual
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Driver Features
- 3 Deploying Windows Server 2012 with SMB Direct
- 4 Driver Configuration
- 5 Performance Tuning
- 6 OpenSM - Subnet Manager
- 7 InfiniBand Fabric
- 7.1 Network Direct Interface
- 7.2 part_man - Virtual IPoIB Port Creation Utility
- 7.3 InfiniBand Fabric Diagnostic Utilities
- 7.4 InfiniBand Fabric Performance Utilities
- 7.4.1 ib_read_bw
- 7.4.2 ib_read_lat
- 7.4.3 ib_send_bw
- 7.4.4 ib_send_lat
- 7.4.5 ib_write_bw
- 7.4.6 ib_write_lat
- 7.4.7 ibv_read_bw
- 7.4.8 ibv_read_lat
- 7.4.9 ibv_send_bw
- 7.4.10 ibv_send_lat
- 7.4.11 ibv_write_bw
- 7.4.12 ibv_write_lat
- 7.4.13 ibaddr
- 7.4.14 ibcacheedit
- 7.4.15 iblinkinfo
- 7.4.16 ibqueryerrors
- 7.4.17 ibsysstat
- 7.4.18 perfquery
- 7.4.19 saquery
- 7.4.20 smpdump
- 8 Software Development Kit
- 9 Troubleshooting
- 10 Documentation
WinOF VPI for Windows User Manual Rev 4.3
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Document Revision History
Table 1 - Document Revision History
Document
Revision
Date Changes
Rev 4.3 January 6, 2013
• Changed the options description in
Appendix 5.1.4.3,“Options,” on page 39
• Added “perf_tuning”Appendix 5.1.4.2,“Synopsys,” on page
38
• Added “-st” flag to Appendix 5.1.4.3,“Options,” on page 39
• Added ‘ibdiagnet’ utility:
Appendix 7.3.2.1,“ibdiagnet Options,” on page 50
Appendix 7.3.2.2,“ibdiagnet Output Files,” on page 50
Appendix 7.3.2.3,“ibdiagnet Error Codes,” on page 52
• Minor changes
Rev 4.2 October 20, 2012
• Added Section 3, “Deploying Windows Server 2012
with SMB Direct”, on page 29
, and its subsections
• Updated Section 5, “Performance Tuning”, on
page 36
• Added Section 2.4, “Header Data Split”, on page 17
• Added Section 7.2, “part_man - Virtual IPoIB Port
Creation Utility”, on page 47
Rev 3.2.0 July 23, 2012
• No changes
Rev 3.1.0 May 21, 2012
• Added section Tuning the IPoIB Network Adapter
• Added section Tuning the Ethernet Network Adapter
• Added section Performance tuning tool application
• Removed section Tuning the Network Adapter
• Removed section part_man
• Removed section ibdiagnet
Rev 3.0.0 February 08, 2012
• Added section RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and
its subsections
• Added section Hyper-V with VMQ
• Added section Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS)
• Added section Header Data Split
• Added section Auto Sensing
• Added section Adapter Teaming
• Added section Port Protocol Configuration
• Added section Advanced Configuration for InfiniBand Driver
• Added section Advanced Configuration for Ethernet Driver
• Added section Updated section Tunable Performance Parame-
ters
• Added section Merged Ethernet and InfiniBand features sec-
tions
• Removed section Sockets Direct Protocol and its subsections
• Removed section Winsock Direct and Protocol and its subsec-
tions
• Removed section Added ConnectX®-3 support
• Removed section IPoIB Drivers Overview
• Removed section Booting Windows from an iSCSI Target
Rev 2.1.3 January 28. 2011 Complete restructure