[ofw] HCA Description field format differences between Windows & Linux?

Hefty, Sean sean.hefty at intel.com
Thu Jun 3 12:31:13 PDT 2010


> What does ibnetdiscover report for the local node?
> I would expect 'hostname HCA-1 MT25208 InfiniHostEx Mellanox Technologies'
> ?
> The implication being something above the HCA driver has prefixed 'hostname
> HCA-#'.

This is for a different node where I can get ibnetdiscover to run, but the results are:

vendid=0x2c9
devid=0x5a44
sysimgguid=0x2c90107fc5be3
caguid=0x2c90107fc5be0
Ca      2 "H-0002c90107fc5be0"          # "MT23108 InfiniHost Mellanox Technologies"
[1](2c90107fc5be1)      "S-0002c9010b08fb60"[24]                # lid 2 lmc 0 "MT47396 Infiniscale-III Mellanox Technologies" lid 3 4xSDR

The HCA driver simply reports back whatever has been set in its local node_desc field, which is settable by writing to a file:

echo Goofy > /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/node_desc

new outout is:

vendid=0x2c9
devid=0x5a44
sysimgguid=0x2c90107fc5be3
caguid=0x2c90107fc5be0
Ca      2 "H-0002c90107fc5be0"          # "Goofy "
[1](2c90107fc5be1)      "S-0002c9010b08fb60"[24]                # lid 2 lmc 0 "MT47396 Infiniscale-III Mellanox Technologies" lid 3 4xSDR



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