[Openib-windows] IPoIB speed on task manager

[Fabian Tillier]

Hi Yossi,

On 7/20/06, Yossi Leybovich <sleybo at mellanox.co.il> wrote:
>
> Fab
>
> I noticed that over XP 32 systems the IPoIB connection on the task manager
> shows speed of 1Gbps.
> On the connection status it shows 1.4Gbps
>
> I checked the code and we report 10Gbps to the LINK_SPEED query.
> Do you familiar with the problem ?

Yes, this is an issue in XP - the link speed counter is a 32-bit
value, and 10Gbps truncated to 32-bits is 1.4Gbps.

> Is this MS problem ?

Yes, and when they were testing the x64 version of the OS I submitted
a bug report and it got fixed.  I don't know if they have any plans to
do this in the 32-bit version.

- Fab