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Resources on BlueField 2 Smart NICs
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smartnic.md

Intro Docs

Setup

Troubleshooting

DPU Docs

DPU Programming

Internals

OVS and Hardware offloaded packet processing

NVMe-oF offload

Misc

HW Timestamp

Configurations

  • DPU mode setup:

sudo mlxconfig -d /dev/mst/<device> s INTERNAL_CPU_MODEL=1

  • Enabling Scalable Functions:
$ mlxconfig -d 0000:03:00.0 s PF_BAR2_ENABLE=0 PER_PF_NUM_SF=1 PF_TOTAL_SF=236 PF_SF_BAR_SIZE=10
$ mlxconfig -d 0000:03:00.1 s PF_BAR2_ENABLE=0 PER_PF_NUM_SF=1 PF_TOTAL_SF=236 PF_SF_BAR_SIZE=10

Tools

  • mst
  • mlxconfig
  • mlxfwmanager
  • devlink
  • mlxdevm
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