[ofa-general] opensm: Unsupported attribute = 0xFF02

[Hal Rosenstock]

Kilian,

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:56 -0700, Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use opensm as a standby SM on a fabric where the master SM 
> is running on a Cisco SFS-7000D (TopspinOS 2.9.0 releng #147)
> 
> The switch (Master SM) logs report the following:
> 
> Oct 30 12:08:46 10.0.100.2 ib_sm.x[588]: %IB-6-INFO: Configuration caused by SM role change
> Oct 30 12:08:55 10.0.100.2 ib_sm.x[605]: %IB-6-INFO: Initialize a backup session with Standby SM guid 00:05:ad:00:00:08:cf:0d
> Oct 30 12:09:05 10.0.100.2 ib_sm.x[605]: %IB-6-INFO: Session initialization failed with Standby SM guid 00:05:ad:00:00:08:cf:0d
> Oct 30 12:11:05 10.0.100.2 ib_sm.x[605]: %IB-6-INFO: Session not initiated: Cold Sync Limit exceeded for Standby SM guid 00:05:ad:00:00:08:cf:0d
> 
> And the opensm (Standby SM) logs show this:
> 
> Oct 30 12:08:45 013321 [95AB1160] -> OpenSM Rev:openib-3.0.13
> Oct 30 12:08:45 013366 [95AB1160] -> OpenSM Rev:openib-3.0.13
> Oct 30 12:08:45 031429 [95AB1160] -> osm_vendor_bind: Binding to port 0x5ad000008cf0d
> Oct 30 12:08:45 033276 [95AB1160] -> osm_vendor_bind: Binding to port 0x5ad000008cf0d
> Oct 30 12:08:46 064757 [45007960] -> Entering STANDBY state
> Oct 30 12:08:55 461419 [4780B960] -> __osm_sm_mad_ctrl_process_set: ERR 3107: Unsupported attribute = 0xFF02
> Oct 30 12:08:55 461482 [4780B960] -> SMP dump:
>                                 base_ver................0x1
>                                 mgmt_class..............0x1
>                                 class_ver...............0x1
>                                 method..................0x2 (SubnSet)
>                                 status..................0x0
>                                 hop_ptr.................0x0
>                                 hop_count...............0x0
>                                 trans_id................0x377df6ce
>                                 attr_id.................0xFF02 (UNKNOWN)

This is a proprietary SM attribute used by Cisco SM. Also, I believe the
Cisco SM supports replication to standby's and that would be via
proprietary means.

>                                 resv....................0x0
>                                 attr_mod................0x1
>                                 m_key...................0x0000000000000000
>                                 MAD IS LID ROUTED
> 
> I'm not sure what this ERR 3107 means, is there something I could do about
> it? Is there a way to use OpenSM as a standby SM with a managed switch?

No; SM flavors should not be mixed on a subnet. There are numerous
reasons for this.

-- Hal

> For information, I'm using OFED 1.2 (the Cisco fcs version) and details
> about the HCAs are below:
> 
> # ibv_devinfo
> hca_id: mthca0
>         fw_ver:                         1.2.917
>         node_guid:                      0005:ad00:0008:cf0c
>         sys_image_guid:                 0005:ad00:0100:d050
>         vendor_id:                      0x05ad
>         vendor_part_id:                 25204
>         hw_ver:                         0xA0
>         board_id:                       HCA.Cheetah-DDR.20
>         phys_port_cnt:                  1
>                 port:   1
>                         state:                  PORT_ACTIVE (4)
>                         max_mtu:                2048 (4)
>                         active_mtu:             2048 (4)
>                         sm_lid:                 2
>                         port_lid:               4
>                         port_lmc:               0x00
> 
> Thanks,