[ofa-general] RcvSwRelayErrors

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 15:27 +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> On Thursday 20 March 2008 15:12:03 Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 13:54 +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> > > On Thursday 20 March 2008 13:27:36 Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 12:30 +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > on one of our systems we get a rather huge numbers of
> > > > > RcvSwRelayErrors. All I find about RcvSwRelayErrors is
> > > > >
> > > > > "This counter can increase due to a valid network event"
> > > > >
> > > > > But what might cause?
> > >
> > > Ooops. This should have been "But what might cause it?"
> > >
> > > > Are you running IB multicast (e.g. IPoIB) ? That's the most common
> > > > cause.
> > >
> > > IPoIB is up, but so far only used initially by lustre for initial lnet
> > > o2ib setup, but then AFAIK not any more. I think some MPI
> > > stacks/applications also do their intial connection using IPoIB.
> > >
> > > But in general, once these connections are established, IPoIB is not much
> > > used anymore.
> >
> > The causes are:
> > 1. DLID mapping
> > 2. VL mapping
> > 3. looping (out port = in port)
> >
> > Is your subnet unstable in some way ? Are you using QoS ?
> >
> 
> We have seen some odd problems with opensm (from ofef-1.2.5) in the past and 
> once only rebooting the switches did help. 

You might want to update OpenSM to OFED 1.3 version.

> Yesterday I started monitoring the the fabric and even though there's not much 
> traffic, I immediately noticed these errors.

Were the counters cleared before you started looking ?

-- Hal

> We are not using QoS.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Bernd
> 
>