Have you already installed SP Driver 2.0? Share your latency benchmarks and experience in the comments below.
In legacy environments (v1.x), the SP driver was a thin, passive conduit. Its job was simple: expose a virtual Ethernet interface (e.g., eth0 or enp0s3 ) so the OS could send raw IPMI commands to the BMC. It had no intelligence, no caching, and no security beyond basic packet filtering. sp driver 2.0