We tend to keep our driver manual pages without detailed promises. They do ethernet, they do it best effort, etc.
What you want to know can be found by reading the source, or the commit logs. Since this is a locally written driver, the code is surprisingly approachable. Andrew Lemin <andrew.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. I hope everyone is well and having a great day :) > > Just a quick question about the mcx (Mellanox 5th generation Ethernet > device) drivers > https://man.openbsd.org/mcx.4 > > The man page says nothing more than it supports; > ConnectX-4 Lx EN > ConnectX-4 EN > ConnectX-5 EN > ConnectX-6 EN > > I am looking for some clarity on what features and performance > characteristics mcx boasts? > > For example are the following basic hardware features supported by this > driver? > IPv4 receive IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload > IPv4 transmit TCP/UDP checksum offload > VLAN tag insertion and stripping > interrupt coalescing > > And what other features does it support? > > I also came across a comment in some forum a while back (so high quality > information 😉) that mentioned Mellanox drivers in OpenBSD are SMP safe and > so not giant-locked. Is this true? > > Thanks, Andy,
