VMA 7.0.12

New Features:

• Improve RX/TX stddev and latency for UDP and TCP sockets
• Silent recovery of VMA exceptions
• Support log level input as strings (see README)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix compilation issues with old flex versions
• Fix a crash when closing the process while other threads are waiting on some sockets

VMA 7.0.11

Bug Fixes:

• Crash due to global ctors which are called after library constructor and results in unsafe values
• LAG bond receive double amount of multicast traffic if LACP not working
• Fix a crash when all bond's slaves ports are taken down and then up
• Fix a segfault in vma_stats -v 4
• Issue WARNING if detecting VLAN over bond while fail_ove_mac=1 is not offloaded, fallback to OS

VMA 7.0.10

Bug Fixes:

• Fix compilation issue on ubuntu 15.10
• Handle failures due to "no file descriptors"
• Bond LAG - Wrong hash with xmit_hash_policy=1 (L3+L4)

VMA 7.0.9

New Features:

• Handling of socket API exception flows
• Build RPM/DEB support

Bug Fixes:

• Handle correctly msg_flag returned by recvmmesg()
• VMA error when running getsockopt with an invalid level and and invalid optlen
• Should initialize all globals in fork()/daemon()
• Fix make dist

VMA 7.0.8

New Features:

• Support bonding LAG (mode=4)
• Support vlan over bond
• Support UDP RX HW time stamping
• Make VMA_MTU parameter not needed
• Optimize UDP TX flow
• Align checksum offload with latest libibverbs 1.2.0
• Replace PANIC at VMA startup with gracefull resource releasing
• Remove sockperf from VMA rpm/deb packaging
• Support TCP Timestamp option

Bug fixes:

• Possible race in neigh_entry state machine
• TCP accept() call does not exit when socket is closed
• Fix a crash when FD limit is less than required for initialization
• Calculate MTU of VLAN interface rather than VLAN base interface
• TCP recv() might keep spining due to uninitialized member

VMA 7.0.7

Changes From Last Pre-Release [7.0.6]
New Features:

• Optimize accept() call

Bug Fixes:

• Connection failed sometimes when binding to INPORT_ANY while REUSEADDR is on
• Multicast group ADD_MEMBERSHIP report success although failing
• Fix install libvma.conf for PREFIX directory
• Possible deadlock when using VMA_RING_ALLOCATION_LOGIC_RX=31
• For VMA_RING_ALLOCATION_LOGIC_RX=31 - CPU afiinity failed on some systems

Changes From Last Release [6.9.1]
New Features:

• Non-standard vlan names support
• Added an option to avoid system calls on tcp socket
• Improved the connection establishment rate
• Improved the cohesion between the TCP receive window and the socket receive buffers
• Optimize accept() call

Bug Fixes:

• Wrong TCP backlog handling
• Fixed cubic congestion control algorithm
• Fixed crash on exec
• Fixed issue when tcp header bigger than packet length
• Wrong handling of TCP window scale option
• Issue closing TCP connection when send window is full
• Crash in case of multithread udp recvfrom
• Fixed SO_LINGER functionality
• Fixed device port selection in new kernels
• TCP connection hang in syn_recv state
• Fixed SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF for TCP
• Incorrect errno when giving getsockopt an invalid level value
• Adjusted tcp receive window to the socket receive buffer size
• Fix a crash when ibv_create_flow failed
• Fallback to OS in case ibv_create_flow failed
• Do not load vma resources if not required
• Connection failed sometimes when binding to INPORT_ANY while REUSEADDR is on
• Multicast group ADD_MEMBERSHIP report success although failing
• Fix install libvma.conf for PREFIX directory
• Possible deadlock when using VMA_RING_ALLOCATION_LOGIC_RX=31
• For VMA_RING_ALLOCATION_LOGIC_RX=31 - CPU afiinity failed on some systems

VMA 7.0.6

Changes from 7.0.5:
Added:
- RM #541581 Support RX CSUM verification offload - align to MLNX_OFED 3.1
- RM #597700 Handle VMA exception flows - patch 1

Fixed:
- RM #577677 backlog params will now be taken from sysctl_reader.h
- RM #589972 provide info to the user if ulimit -n is too small
- RM #563682 fix a crash when ibv_create_flow failed
- RM #596462 fallback to OS in case ibv_create_flow failed
- RM #597449 Do not load vma resources if not required

VMA 7.0.5

Changes from 7.0.4:
Added:
- RM #561857 Support non-standard vlan names
- RM #564158 provide 'sysctl' services for the rest of VMA objects to access
- RM #557948 Option to avoid system calls on tcp fd
- RM #562770 improve connection establishment rate
- RM #582394 Support flow-steering priority scheme on ConnectX-4
- RM #587515 Adapt vma to ConnectX-4 send inline demands
- RM #531820 Modify the syn throttling feature

Fixed:
- RM #565962 Wrong TCP backlog handling
- RM #349852 fix cubic congestion control algorithm
- RM #549313 neigh post_send_tcp, fix check buffer validity
- RM #559589 Close on exec for netlink sockets, to fix crash on exec
- RM #554834 Fix issue when tcp header bigger than packet length
- RM #575582 Wrong handling of TCP window scale option
- RM #575697 VMA can't send FIN while snd_buf is full
- RM #552441 fix a possible crash in case of multithread udp recvfrom
- RM #565588 fix SO_LINGER functionality different than OS
- RM #576497 for upstream RH7.2 look at interface dev_port and not dev_id
- RM #559317 Continue processing CQ for ready FD after failure on one of them
- RM #560899 tcp socket hang in syn_recv state
- RM #501206 fix SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF for TCP
- RM #581915 incorrect errno when giving getsockopt an invalid level value
- RM #588042 Adjust tcp receive window to the socket receive buffer size

VMA 7.0.4

Latest Stable	MLNX_OFED	CX3 Firmware	Documentation
7.0.4 GA	3.0-2.0.1	2.34.5000	VMA_7_0_Documentation.zip

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