Software/Driver Installation; Pre-Requisites - Chelsio Communications Terminator Series Installation And User Manual

Chapter I. Chelsio Unified Wire

Software/Driver Installation

There are two main methods to install the Chelsio Unified Wire package: from source and RPM.
If you decide to use source, you can install the package using CLI or GUI mode.
If you decide to use RPM, you can install the package using Menu or CLI mode.
RPM packages support only distro base kernels. In case of updated/custom kernels, use source
package. Irrespective of the method chosen for installation, the machine needs to be rebooted for
changes to take effect.
The following table describes the various configuration tuning options available during
installation and drivers/software installed with each option by default:
Configuration
Tuning Option
Unified
Wire(Default)
Low latency
Networking
High capacity RDMA
RDMA Performance
High capacity TOE
+
iSCSI Performance
UDP Seg.Offload &
Pacing*
#
Wire Direct Latency
High Capacity WD
#
Hash Filter Configures adapters to create more filters.
#
Ring Backbone
NVMe Performance^
#
High Capacity VF Configures adapters to support more VFs.
* Supported on T4/T5
+ Supported only on T5
#
Supported on T5/T6
^ Supported only on T6
3.1.

Pre-requisites

To install Unifided Wire using GUI mode (with Dialog utility), ncurses-devel package must be
installed.
Chelsio Unified Wire for Linux
Description
Default Configuration. Configures
adapters to run all protocols
simultaneously.
Configures adapters to run TOE and
iWARP traffic with low latency.
Configures adapters to establish a large
number of iWARP connections.
Improves iWARP performance.
Configures adapters to establish a large
number of TOE connections.
Improves iSCSI performance.
Configures adapters to establish a large
number of UDP Segmentation Offload
connections.
Configures adapters to provide low Wire
Direct latency.
Configures adapters to establish a large
number of WD-UDP connections.
Configures adapters in a ring backbone.
Improves NVMe-oF performance.
Driver/Software installed
NIC/TOE, vNIC, iWARP, iSER, WD-UDP,
NVMe-oF, LIO iSCSI Target, iSCSI Target,
iSCSI Initiator, FCoE Initiator, Bonding,
MAFO, IPv6, Sniffer & Tracer, Filtering, TM
TOE, iWARP, WD-UDP, WD-TOE, IPv6,
Bonding, MAFO
iWARP
iWARP, iSER, NVMe-oF
TOE, Bonding, MAFO, IPv6
LIO iSCSI Target, iSCSI Target, iSCSI
Initiator, Bonding, DCB
UDP-SO, Bonding
TOE, iWARP, WD-UDP, WD-TOE
WD-UDP, WD-TOE
Filtering
NIC/TOE, iWARP, iSER, WD-UDP, NVMe-
oF, LIO iSCSI Target, iSCSI Target, iSCSI
Initiator, IPv6, Filtering, TM
iWARP, NVMe-oF
NIC, vNIC
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