Mellanox ConnectX-4 Priority Flow Control - Proxmox won't allow installation

jw6677

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Hello,

I am trying to enable Priority Flow Control (PFC) on my proxmox cluster with hopes to enable RoCEv2 on ConnectX-3 and ConnectX-4 HCA.

This is a bit "in the weeds", but I am just a hobby user, so please bear with me as I am a little over my head here in some areas.


Nvidia makes it pretty clear that the process to enable PFC on connectx-4 cards is through the use of their `mlnx_qos` tool as seen:
https://community.mellanox.com/s/article/howto-configure-pfc-on-connectx-4

However, installing mlnx_qos required MLNX_OFED, and installing MLNX_OFED Requires:

Code:
hecking SW Requirements...
One or more required packages for installing MLNX_OFED_LINUX are missing.
Attempting to install the following missing packages:
python
Removing old packages...

Error: One or more packages depends on MLNX_OFED_LINUX.
Those packages should be removed before uninstalling MLNX_OFED_LINUX:

pve-qemu-kvm ceph-mgr-ssh libpve-guest-common-perl python3-ceph ceph ibsim-utils librbd1 libiscsi-dev ceph-mon fio librgw2 ceph-immutable-object-cache ceph-base pve-manager libosmvendor5 ceph-mgr libfabric1 python3-cephfs proxmox-ve ceph-common rbd-mirror pve-container libpve-storage-perl libsqlite3-mod-ceph-dev python3-rbd ceph-mgr-dashboard libsqlite3-mod-ceph libopensm9 libumad2sim0 librados2-perl libiscsi7 spiceterm ceph-mds qemu-server libosmcomp5 ceph-mgr-diskprediction-local pve-ha-manager ceph-mgr-cephadm librados2 qperf python3-rados libcephfs2 ceph-fuse ceph-mgr-k8sevents python3-rgw libradosstriper1 ceph-osd ceph-test

To force uninstallation use '--force' flag.

What is the best approach to handle this?
 

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