***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] OpenSM initialization error

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Yicheng Jia <YJia at tmriusa.com> wrote:
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> Yes. This persists for nearly 1 minute.
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> One thing I notice is if I start mthca driver more than 1 minute before
> OpenSM starts, then there's no such error message anymore, this is gone. So
> I guess there's some handshaking going on between mthca driver and unmanaged
> switch firmware, which stablize communication before OpenSM starts. Do you
> have any idea about it?

The physical link is brought up all on its own assuming the ports are
not disabled. Maybe the SM link being used is not in init yet. I don't
think that is well handled.

-- Hal

> Thanks!
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> Yicheng Jia
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> Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock at gmail.com>
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> 03/27/2009 03:02 PM
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> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Yicheng Jia <YJia at tmriusa.com> wrote:
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>> Here is the output of saquery. I am using Qlogic 9024 FC unmanaged switch.
>> Only one SM exists in the subnet.
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> <snip...>
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> Is this topology simply one switch surrounded by HCAs ? If so, I don't
> have a theory as to why this message persists for 1 second.
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> -- Hal
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