NVIDIA EN Driver for Linux
NVIDIA offers a robust and full set of protocol software and driver for Linux with the ConnectX® EN family cards. Designed to provide a high performance support for Enhanced Ethernet with fabric consolidation over TCP/IP based LAN applications. The driver and software in conjunction with the Industry's leading ConnectX family of cards achieve full line rate, full duplex of up to 400Gbps performance per port.
Benefits
- High performance single/Dual port support with full line rate, full duplex 10Gbps, 40Gbps and 56Gbps per port
- High scale SR-IOV with 126 Virtual Functions (VFs)
- VXLAN hardware offload (ConnectX-3 Pro)
- TCP/IP stateless offload, and Hardware Checksum Offload for Tx and Rx packets
- Net device statistics per port with both ports in active mode
- Extensive VLAN support with VLAN Tx/Rx acceleration (Hardware VLAN stripping/insertion), Hardware VLAN filtering and Hardware multicast filtering
- Adaptive Interrupt moderation on the receive path patterned according to either latency-bound traffic or bandwidth bound traffic.
- Default NAPI support is enabled per-core to run in interrupt mode
- Performance optimization support with "ethtool" command; Allows tuning of various NIC driver options
- Use fewer high-performance systems in a rack based system, reducing cabling, low power consumption
- Supports all major Linux Distributions
- Supports KVM and XenServer