***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] atomic operations on ppc64

[Rui Machado]

2008/9/19 Dotan Barak <dotanba at gmail.com>:
>
>>> Bugs can be anywhere: application / Driver / HW ...
>>>
>>> Can you try to use server in x86 and client in PPC64 and then server in
>>> PPC64 and client in x86?
>>>
>>> Which OFED version do you use?
>>> Can you send the output of ibv_devinfo?
>>>
>>> Dotan
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I tried the combination ppc64-x86 and x86-ppc64.
>> The result was a hang on the client side on poll (see code above) on both
>> cases.
>> Could endianess be playing a role here? This is the first time I try
>> to put different architectures to communicate.
>>
>> I have ofed 1.2.5.5
>>
>> ibv_devinfo (x86 machine used for the ppc64-x86 communication)
>>
>> hca_id: mthca0
>>        fw_ver:                         1.2.0
>>        node_guid:                      0002:c902:0021:b820
>>        sys_image_guid:                 0002:c902:0021:b823
>>        vendor_id:                      0x02c9
>>        vendor_part_id:                 25204
>>        hw_ver:                         0xA0
>>        board_id:                       MT_03B0110001
>>        phys_port_cnt:                  1
>>                port:   1
>>                        state:                  PORT_ACTIVE (4)
>>                        max_mtu:                2048 (4)
>>                        active_mtu:             2048 (4)
>>                        sm_lid:                 142
>>                        port_lid:               134
>>                        port_lmc:               0x01
>>
>> ibv_devinfo (ppc64)
>>
>> hca_id: mlx4_0
>>        fw_ver:                         2.3.000
>>        node_guid:                      0002:c903:0000:9334
>>        sys_image_guid:                 0002:c903:0000:9337
>>        vendor_id:                      0x02c9
>>        vendor_part_id:                 25418
>>        hw_ver:                         0xA0
>>        board_id:                       IBM08A0000001
>>        phys_port_cnt:                  2
>>                port:   1
>>                        state:                  PORT_ACTIVE (4)
>>                        max_mtu:                2048 (4)
>>                        active_mtu:             2048 (4)
>>                        sm_lid:                 142
>>                        port_lid:               68
>>                        port_lmc:               0x01
>>
>>                port:   2
>>                        state:                  PORT_DOWN (1)
>>                        max_mtu:                2048 (4)
>>                        active_mtu:             2048 (4)
>>                        sm_lid:                 0
>>                        port_lid:               0
>>                        port_lmc:               0x00
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>
> It seems that you didn't check the same HCA in each arch.
>
> Can you try to use the mthca device in PPC64 and check the results?
>
> (Anyway, i would have suggest you to upgrade the OFED package that you are
> using)

I apologize for my newbieness here but I do not understand what you mean.
The two machines have different devices. What do you mean by making
the ppc64 machine use the mthca when it does only have the mlx4?

Unfortunately, upgrading might not be an (easy) option :-/

Thanks for the patience