[ofa-general] vendstat issue with shark switch

[Hal Rosenstock]

Hi Vincent,

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Vincent Ficet
<jean-vincent.ficet at bull.net> wrote:
> Hello Hal,
>>
>> This looks like a timeout error on the ClassPortInfo attribute in the
>> vendor class Mellanox uses. So either that class is not implemented in
>> the firmware or this (required) attribute is not implemented. Can you
>> contact Mellanox about this ?
>
> Ok, I will get in touch with them about this.
>>
>> Also, can you try the following experiment:
>>
>> rebuild vendstat with #if 0'ing out the following lines:
>>
>>        memset(&buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
>>        /* vendor ClassPortInfo is required attribute if class supported */
>>        call.attrid = CLASS_PORT_INFO;
>>        if (!ib_vendor_call(&buf, &portid, &call))
>>                IBERROR("classportinfo query");
>>
> I got the following output (timeout) with the #If 0'ed version:
>
> [root at inti0 src]# ./vendstat -dd -N 11
> [ ... ]
> 010a 0181 000c 0000 0000 0031 3760 8692
> 0017 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 01b3 01b3 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ffff ffff
> 0007 0100 0000 2fb8 1008 2008 0000 0011
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> ibwarn: [18182] mad_rpc_rmpp: MAD completed with error status 0xc; dport
> (Lid 11)
> vendstat: iberror: [pid 18182] main: failed: vendstat

Same error so whole class is likely not supported or not yet supported.

-- Hal

>> I'm not sure whether this tool should support IS-IV or not. Currently,
>> as the man page says, it's intended for IS-III only. It may be that
>> the current firmware does not yet support this but will sometime in
>> the future.
>>
>> -- Hal
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Vincent
>
>