[ofa-general] saquery port problems

[Matthias Blankenhaus]

Forgot some important info:

saquery BUILD VERSION: 1.3.6
OFED-1.3


On Tue, 20 May 2008, Matthias Blankenhaus wrote:

> Howdy !
> 
> While using this tool to run some queries on a two port HCA, I noticed 
> some odd behavior.  Here are my observations running on a SLES10SP2 
> (x86_64) Intel Xeon with a Mellanox Technologies MT25208 InfiniHost III 
> Ex HCA:
> 
> (01) saquery -C mthca0 -m  
>      This yields the output for port number two.  This is not conform with the
>      usual ib tools behavior to report on port one per default.
> 
> (02) saquery -C mthca0 -m -P 1
>      Fails with "Failed to find active port, check port status with "ibstat".
>      This is incorrect, since
> 
>      # ibstat mthca0 1
> CA: 'mthca0'
> Port 1:
> State: Active
> Physical state: LinkUp
> Rate: 20
> Base lid: 5
> LMC: 0
> SM lid: 1
> Capability mask: 0x02510a68
> Port GUID: 0x0008f10403987dc5
> 
>      This might be the reason why (01) report on port two.
> 
> (03) saquery -C mthca0 -m -P 2
>      Works and is identical with the out out from (01).
> 
> However, the following command options work:
> 
> (04) saquery -P 1 -m
>      Correctly yields the output for port one.  In other words
>      port one seems to be fine unlike reported in (02).
> 
> (05) saquery -P 2 -m
>      Correctly yields the output for port two.
> 
> 
> Is it incorrect to use -C and -P in combination ?  Why does does
> saquery think that port one is not active ?
> 
> 
> Thanx,
> Matthias
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