
Chapter I. Chelsio Unified Wire
Chelsio Unified Wire for Linux
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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
Description
Driver/Software installed
Unified
Wire(Default)
Default Configuration. Configures
adapters to run all protocols
simultaneously.
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
Low latency
Networking
Configures adapters to run TOE and
iWARP traffic with low latency.
TOE, iWARP, WD-UDP, WD-TOE, IPv6,
Bonding, MAFO
High capacity RDMA
Configures adapters to establish a large
number of iWARP connections.
iWARP
RDMA Performance
Improves iWARP performance.
iWARP, iSER, NVMe-oF
High capacity TOE
Configures adapters to establish a large
number of TOE connections.
TOE, Bonding, MAFO, IPv6
iSCSI Performance
+
Improves iSCSI performance.
LIO iSCSI Target, iSCSI Target,
iSCSI
Initiator, Bonding, DCB
UDP Seg.Offload &
Pacing*
Configures adapters to establish a large
number of UDP Segmentation Offload
connections.
UDP-SO, Bonding
Wire Direct Latency
#
Configures adapters to provide low Wire
Direct latency.
TOE, iWARP, WD-UDP, WD-TOE
High Capacity WD
Configures adapters to establish a large
number of WD-UDP connections.
WD-UDP, WD-TOE
Hash Filter
#
Configures adapters to create more filters.
Filtering
Ring Backbone
#
Configures adapters in a ring backbone.
NIC/TOE, iWARP, iSER, WD-UDP, NVMe-
oF, LIO iSCSI Target, iSCSI Target,
iSCSI
Initiator, IPv6, Filtering, TM
NVMe Performance^
Improves NVMe-oF performance.
iWARP, NVMe-oF
High Capacity VF
#
Configures adapters to support more VFs.
NIC, vNIC
* 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.
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