[ofa-general] Running multiple SM

[Hal Rosenstock]

Hi again Ganesh,

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 21:42, Ganesh Sadasivan wrote:
> Hi Hal,
> 
>  Please see inline.
> 
> On 16 May 2007 19:22:00 -0400, Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com>
> wrote:
>         Hi Ganesh,
>         
>         On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 19:00, Ganesh Sadasivan wrote:
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         >    I have a setup with 2 HCAs connected back to back and am
>         running
>         > opensm (ofed1.1, running at the same priority) on both of
>         them. Is
>         > there any utility to see who is the master?
> 
> Even with priority difeferences I am seeing the same behavior.Am I
> missing any option. I am setting "opensm -s 30" and "opensm -s 60" on
> the respective sides.

Why not use the default (10 secs) or at least the same on both sides ?

>         sminfo will show the SM state for a LID/GUID.
> 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
>         >   The smlid in ibv_devinfo, seems to be changing whenever an
>         SM does a
>         > sweep. Is this expected?
>         
>         Nope. If they are both at the same priority, the lower GUID
>         should win
>         the SM election.
>         
>         Not sure what is going wrong in your (back to back HCA)
>         subnet. Do you 
>         ports stay active ?
> 
> 
> Yes both ports are active. 

And they stay active (no LED color changes) ?

If not, can you run both OpenSMs in verbose mode (-V) and see if there
is anything interesting/relevant in the logs ?

-- Hal

> Thanks
> Ganesh
> 
>         -- Hal
>         
>         > Thanks
>         > Ganesh
>         >
>         >
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