[ofa-general] Perfquery XmtWords, not XmtBytes...

[Troy Benjegerdes]

Okay. I see the latest version of perfquery uses 'XmtData' instead of 
XmtBytes.

Thanks.

Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 19:52, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
>   
>> It appears that Perfquery (and the performance counter api's we are 
>> using for fountain/goanna) are reporting data in 32 bit (4-byte) *words* 
>> and not bytes.
>>
>> Can someone please clear up my confusion on this, and maybe correct the 
>> documentation as well?
>>     
>
> It's consistent with what the IB spec says (IBA 1.2 vol 1 p.948) as to
> how these quantities are counted. They are defined to be octets divided
> by 4 so the choice is to display them the same as the actual quantity
> (which is why they are named Data rather than Octets) or to multiply by
> 4 for Octets. The former choice was made.
>
> -- Hal 
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