[openib-general] gen2 opensm

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Wed Apr 6 07:58:03 PDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 10:44, Roland Fehrenbacher wrote:
> > $ /usr/local/ib/bin/ibstatus
> > Infiniband device 'mthca0' port 1 status:
> >         default gid:     fe80:0000:0000:0000:0002:c902:0000:771d
> >         base lid:        0x0
> >         sm lid:          0x0
> >         state:           2: INIT
> >         phys state:      5: LinkUp
> >         rate:            10 Gb/sec (4X)
> > 
> > Infiniband device 'mthca0' port 2 status:
> >         default gid:     fe80:0000:0000:0000:0002:c902:0000:771e
> >         base lid:        0x0
> >         sm lid:          0x0
> >         state:           1: DOWN
> >         phys state:      2: Polling
> >         rate:            2.5 Gb/sec (1X)
> 
>     Hal> That's strange that you can get the port GIDs via ibstatus
>     Hal> but not via ibstat.
> 
>     Hal> The one thing different I see is that the NodeGUID is very
>     Hal> different from the PortGUIDs. Not sure if this messes things
>     Hal> up.
> 
> Somehow the tools don't seem to get the correct information, but it's
> there:
> 
> $ cat /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/node_guid
> 0002:c902:0000:771c
> 
> $ cat /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/sys_image_guid
> 0002:c902:0000:771f
> 
> How can this happen?
> 
> > > Running opensm then doesn't activate the ports:
> > > 
> > > Apr 05 19:18:25 [4000] -> OpenSM Rev:openib-1.0.0 .......
> 
>      Hal> I see a bug in this message. I will fix it. Please sync
>      Hal> OpenSM to at least version 2111 and rerun.
> 
> > I will recompile tomorrow, and try a firmware upgrade.
> 
> The error log with the recompiled opensm is now:
> 
> Apr 06 14:39:14 [4000] -> OpenSM Rev:openib-1.0.0
> Apr 06 14:39:14 [4000] -> osm_opensm_init: Forcing single threaded dispatcher.
> Apr 06 14:39:14 [4000] -> osm_report_notice: Reporting Generic Notice type:3 num:66 from LID:0x0000 GID:0x0000000030f2ffff,0x0000000000000000
> Apr 06 14:39:14 [4000] -> osm_report_notice: Reporting Generic Notice type:3 num:66 from LID:0x0000 GID:0x0000000030f2ffff,0x0000000000000000
> Apr 06 14:39:14 [4000] -> osm_vendor_get_all_port_attr: assign CA mthca0 port 1 guid (0x65babaa) as the default port.
> Apr 06 14:39:14 [4000] -> osm_vendor_bind: Binding to port 0x225dabaa.
> Apr 06 14:39:14 [4000] -> osm_vendor_bind: Binding to port 0x8000000.
> Apr 06 14:39:14 [2400A] -> umad_receiver: Failed to obtain request madw for received MAD(method=81 attr=11) -- dropping.
> 
> I couldn't do a firmware update yet, since I haven't gotten Mellanox
> mst to compile with kernel 2.6.11. Do you have another suggestion how
> I could do the upgrade?

Mellanox mst ? Are you using the Mellanox drivers and not OpenIB gen2 ?

-- Hal




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