VMA 8.1.5

New Features

• IGMPv3 - add support for 'Source Specific Multicast'
• Add csbuild support into jenkins
• Update jenkins with valgrind support
• Code updates to comply with Coverity 8.5 version

Bug Fixes

• Fix failure to receive fragmented multicast packets over ConnectX3-IB

VMA 8.1.4

New Features

• Update github's README.md file
• Remove unused utility functions

Bug Fixes

• Fix multiple Coverity warnings (potential leaks, dead code, potential garbage values)

VMA 8.1.3

New Features

• Revise RDTSC logic to consider CPU speeds taken from /proc/cpuinfo
• VMA out-of-box sockperf tuning for low latency (VMA_SPEC=10)
• Add locking to setsockopt() TCP to protect against pcb changes

VMA 8.1.2

New Features

• Act gracefully when running on upstream drivers for non supported features
• TCP stack - split head of TCP unsent segment when bigger than send window size and NODELAY flag is set
• Dump TCP file descriptor statistics into VMA logger using vma_stats
• Avoid using mce_sys global variable in fast path to minimize cache hit and improve performance
• Support SW checksum validation for ingress TCP/UDP IP packets
• Allow local TCP connections for offloaded bounded listen sockets
• Control the number of post sends until requesting completion SIGNAL
• Add option for TCP stack debug printing
• Coverity enhancements: add support for ccpcheck and clang
• Add jenkins support for inbox

Bug Fixes

• Fix segmentation fault in vma_stats when exceeding fds string length
• Coverity fixes
• Fix exp-cq help message when executing "./configure --help"

VMA 8.1.1

New Features

• Allow excluding logging levels to improve performance
• Wait for Rx WQE's when closing RING (QP)
• Un-offload UDP socket that is bound to any non-offloaded interfaces (e.g. loopback 127.0.0.1)
• Update message regarding no steering rules in mlx4 to adapt to upstream drivers
• DNS server (UDP,port 53) to be handled by OS by default (libvma.conf)
• Jenkins - add building of source RPM
• Replace deprecated API (e.g. inet_addr) with ipv6 supporting API (e.g inet_pton)

Bug Fixes

• Fix VMA not able to receive data on epoll_wait()
• Fix segfault when running with CTL_THREAD_NO_WAKEUP
• Fix epoll is not cleared from vma_stats

VMA 8.0.4

New Features

• Add log details on UDP setsockopt(SO_BINDTODEVICE) and add python test code

Bug Fixes

• Fix ./configure failures on some distros - add pkg.m4 into distribution
• Fix 'make distclean' breakage

VMA 8.0.3

New Features

• Search neigh table using both dst addr and ifindex
• Replace STL containers with vma_list_t class to avoid malloc() calls
• epoll() - report in order (FIFO) on readable sockets file descriptors
• Add vma_stats -v 5 PID column (netstat like)
• Expand vma_stats to include Send-Q & Recv-Q
• Add internal thread TCP timer handling mode: immediate/deferred
• Add "--disable-exp-cq" parameter to control CQ polling using experimental verbs API
• Initialize struct mce_sys members the earliest possible (in struct constructor)
• Add jenkins check support on github pull requests

Bug Fixes

• Fix TCP WIN SCALE incompatibility with RFC-1323, section 2.2/2.3
• Fix realloc size parameter in event_handler_manager class
• Fix usage of safe_mce_sys() calls instead of unsafe mce_sys calls

VMA 8.0.1

New Features

• Change VMA license from "GPLv2 or Commercial" to "GPLv2 or BSD" (dual license).
• Prepare Fedora 24 RPM spec file
• return ENOMEM if select() uses 'ndfs' larger then the system's FD_SETSIZE

Bug Fixes

• Fix vma_stats did not delete unused internal files
• Fix ib1 (second IB interface, port 2) not being recognized
• Fix crash when running in DEBUG log level and interface does not have an ip address
• Fix zero_copy_rx() handling of iov scattered data
• Fix TCP crash when executing setsockopt() SO_RCVBUF on listening socket
• Fix GCC 6.0.0-0.13 compilation errors

VMA 7.0.14

New Features:

• Support SW CSUM calculation for L3 (IP) & L4 (TCP) in environments where Tx HW CSUM is not supported (L4/UDP CSUM=0)
• RPMs updates to comply with rpmlint

Bug Fixes

• Avoid YACC warnings

Related documents: Release Notes, Installation Guide, User Manual

VMA 7.0.13

New Features

• Make VMA compile with upstream where TX/RX checksum offload is missing from libibverbs
• VMA_EXCEPTION_HANDLING=-1 (log debug) to increase cases of offloaded traffic
• add debug log of wqe RX checksum errors

Bug Fixes

• Avoid LEX warnings: push config_scanner.c based on Flex 2.5.39
• Fix releasing of used RX buffers without socket lock