[openib-general] Re: IB Diagnositic Tools

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 17:13, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> Hal,
> 
> This is kinda offtopic, 

Yes, this is different topic(s).

> 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?

I don't think it has been fixed :-( I will need to refresh myself on
this again.

> On a related note (just the same thing, i tend to think)
> /* "local ports" is(?) phys, shouldn't this exclude port 0 then ? */

I guess it depends on what local ports is being used for. This is a
switch issue where there a 2 types of port 0s: base and enhanced.
Neither of these are physical ports. Enhanced port 0 is like an HCA
port. This is relevant as to PortInfo components and also which counters
might also be available. In general, architecturally speaking, local
ports would include all local ports whether physical IB ports or not so
on a switch port 0 is included. Is port 0 causing an issue somewhere ?

-- Hal

> 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?