[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH v2] infiniband-diags/scripts: Add 'ibcheckspeed' and 'ibcheckportspeed' to scripts

[Eli Dorfman (Voltaire)]

Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Ira Weiny <weiny2 at llnl.gov
> <mailto:weiny2 at llnl.gov>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:32:39 +0530
>     Keshetti Mahesh <keshetti.mahesh at gmail.com
>     <mailto:keshetti.mahesh at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     > My badness. I have not used 'iblinkinfo' before.
>     > So, I guess there is no need for the above script. Apart from
>     that, I feel
>     > there should be a program/script which will first scan the fabric
>     to find the
>     > maximum common supported width/speed and then report the warning
>     messages
>     > of the links/ports which are configured with active width/speed less
>     > than the found
>     > value. Is there any tool already exists which does the same ?
> 
>     Not that I know of.
> 
>  
> ibportstate does this but is on a per port basis. This could be readily
> scripted (ad hoc or in tree) for this purpose.
>  

But it would be very slow for large fabrics.
I think it would be better to add this option to iblinkinfo code.
Also it would be useful to find all ports in Disable state.

Eli