[openib-general] OpenSM on multiple HCA machine

Eitan Zahavi eitan at mellanox.co.il
Mon Jun 27 22:29:25 PDT 2005


I was not aware of an issue with multiple HCAs in the OpenIB (gen2) stack.
The Gen1 stack had this issue and it was resolved. I hope to be able to
focus on OpenIB stack in the coming months such that I can help Hal in
fixing these kind of issues  too.

Eitan Zahavi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernhard Fischer [mailto:rep.nop at aon.at]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:14 AM
> To: Hal Rosenstock
> Cc: Eitan Zahavi; openib-windows at openib.org; 'openib-general at openib.org'
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: IB Diagnositic Tools
> 
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:04:16PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> >Hi Eitan,
> >
> >On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 15:25, Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> >> Following the discussion about the debug tools, I would like to
> >> propose using OpenSM Vendor layer as a common layer for developing the
> >> debug tools.
> 
> Hal,
> 
> This is kinda offtopic, but (iirc) i once stumbled over the issue of
> "port" vs. "mgmt port" [back then i had access to two 2-port cards]
> where you may have said something along the lines of
> \"There is clearly a bug for multi HCAs in osm_vendor_get_all_port_attr
> which is in the vendor layer. This needs to be fixed and is our problem.
> So I am close to being able to commit what I now have for this and fix
> this later (as there are other multi HCA issues).\"
> Just curious.. did somebody already have a chance to touch those or not?
> 
> On a related note (just the same thing, i tend to think)
> /* "local ports" is(?) phys, shouldn't this exclude port 0 then ? */
> 
> I'm not too familiar with these kindof questions, which might be define
> in a spec, so any hint on this would be well received, at least from my
> part.
> 
> anyone? Eitan?
> --
> thank you,
> Bernhard
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