What's new in Remote Direct Memory Access

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November 2023

The following information is a summary of the updates made to this topic collection:

  • Starting with AIX® Version 7.3, Technology Level 2, the AIX operating system supports RDMA over Converged Ethernet version 2 (RoCE v2). You can use the no command to enable or disable the RoCE v2 protocol mode.

November 2022

The following information is a summary of the updates made to this topic collection:

  • Added information about the -e flag in the ibv_devinfo command topic. The -e flag prints the extended group ID (GID) tables of the RDMA devices.
  • Added information about the -q flag in the ofedctrl command topic. The -q flag indicates whether the kernel extension is loaded or not.
  • Added information about the OFED configuration file.