[openib-general] performance counters in /sys

Hal Rosenstock halr at voltaire.com
Thu May 19 14:48:21 PDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 16:45, Yaron Haviv wrote:
> I believe you can use the per VL counters for that 
> (IB allows counting traffic on a specific VL)
> By matching ULPs to VLs (e.g. through the ib_at lib we suggested)
> You can get both congestion isolation per traffic type as well as the
> ability to count traffic per ULP 
> (note that up to 8 VLs are supported in the Mellanox chips)

PortXmitDataVL[n], PortRcvDataVL[n], PortXmitPktVL[n], and
PortRcvPktVL[n] are all IB optional. Do the Mellanox HCAs support these
counters ?

-- Hal





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