[ofa-general] Both opensm's are in SMINFO_STANDBY and none of them claims master

[Venkatesh Babu]

Hal Rosenstock wrote:

>>  I am seeing non zero (0 - 10) VL15 drops counter. What is the 
>>significance and cause of these errors ?
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>This means that some VL15 packets arrive at the switch with no available
>VL15 buffers so they are dropped. These could be any SM packets (SMInfo
>is just one possibility).
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>>How can I get rid or correct them ?
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>You would need to contact your switch vendor to see if the VL15
>buffering can be reconfigured.
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>I'm not sure whether or not this is related to your standby issue or
>not.
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  At least opensm is not working correctly. Eventhough ibv_devinfo shows 
it as master and it is not responding to the broadcast join operations 
or it doesn't assign LIDs to other nodes.

>Are you seeing any other errors on any of the ports ?
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  I do see non zero port_xmit_discards error counters on some ports.
 
  Are these errors could be because of the bad cables or ports ?

 VBabu

>-- Hal
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