[ofa-general] atomic operations on ppc64
Rui Machado
ruimario at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 07:39:04 PDT 2008
2008/9/19 Dotan Barak <dotanba at gmail.com>:
>
>>> 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
>>
>
> You have 2 machines, each with another device:
> x86 has the HCA 25204
> PPC64 has the HCA 25418
>
>
> The fact that the test didn't pass for you on the PPC64 may be related to
> this device
> (i think that OFED 1.2.5 was the first version that supported this device).
>
> So, i suggest that you'll put the HCA 25204 on the PPC64 and check if the
> failure still exists.
>
>
> Dotan
>
Right :) Now I get it!
I couldn't (yet at least) put the HCA 25204 on the ppc64.
But I tried again with another ppc64 machine.
ibv_devinfo
hca_id: mthca0
fw_ver: 4.8.200
node_guid: 0005:ad00:001d:cd24
sys_image_guid: 0005:ad00:0100:d050
vendor_id: 0x05ad
vendor_part_id: 25208
hw_ver: 0xA0
board_id: HCA.HSDC.A0
phys_port_cnt: 2
port: 1
state: PORT_ACTIVE (4)
max_mtu: 2048 (4)
active_mtu: 2048 (4)
sm_lid: 142
port_lid: 156
port_lmc: 0x01
port: 2
state: PORT_DOWN (1)
max_mtu: 2048 (4)
active_mtu: 512 (2)
sm_lid: 0
port_lid: 0
port_lmc: 0x00
The result was still the same as before:
ppc64-ppc64 - the counter doesn't get updated.
ppc64-x86 - clients hangs at poll
Just as an extra info...
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