[openib-general] Question

[Eitan Zahavi]

The bug is only in the meaning of the report.
No other issue was found with it. 
The Anafa1 will report this wrong value only after reboot. 

EZ
Eitan Zahavi
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Mellanox Technologies LTD
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Rosenstock [mailto:halr at voltaire.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 4:50 PM
> To: Eitan Zahavi
> Cc: Ronald G. Minnich; openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: RE: [openib-general] Question
> 
> Hi Eitan,
> 
> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 01:26, Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> > Hal wrote:
> > > So this looks like a workaround for a bug. Not sure what any of the
> > other symptoms
> > > are but I'm real curious now. Can someone comment more on this ?
> >
> > The ERR 3610 is really just a warning. It is caused by the Anafa1 chip
> > responding with a LinearFDBTop 0xC000.
> 
> Are you sure that the only problem when Anafa1 gets into this state ?
> Does it continue to forward LR packets ? What happens with all the other
> LIDs now theoretically in play ?
> 
> I also presume there's no fix for this with Anafa 1. Is that correct ?
> 
> > OpenSM does know how to handle that case and fix it.
> 
> Right, the workaround resets LinearFDBTop.
> 
> > > At a minimum, the SMA is reporting an invalid value for
> > PortInfo::LinearFDBTop. I
> > > wonder if it also is incapable of forwarding DR MADs as well. That
> > would explain
> > > this.
> > There are no issues with that switch ability to do DR mads.
> 
> -- Hal
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