actually it occurred to me that all I need to do is perfquery -h and grep
for --extended. almost got it working, if anyone would like to try it out
when it's ready
-mark
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Joe Digilio <[email protected]>wrote:
> I just tried running it and got a failure with an exit status of 255:
> # perfquery -x
> ibwarn: [30842] dump_perfcounters: PerfMgt ClassPortInfo 0x0; No extended
> counter support indicated
>
> perfquery: iberror: failed: perfextquery
>
> This is on RHEL5 with infiniband-diags-1.5.12-2.el5
>
> Let me know if you need me to test out anything else.
> -Joe
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Mark Seger <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm starting to dig into this and unfortunately can't find any machines
>> that have HCA that don't have 64 bit counters and I assume there are still
>> some out there. What I think I want to do is when collectl starts up
>> execute a perfquery -x call and make sure it succeeds. the problem is I
>> don't knpw what failure looks like. is there anyone on this list who does
>> and who might be able to help me test some of this?
>>
>> I just did find if I run perfquery with an invalid switch it give me a
>> usage error so maybe that is sufficient?
>>
>>
>> -mark
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Mark Seger <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> thanks for the reminder. I will move this to the top of my todo list
>>> for collectl.
>>> -mark
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Dragseth Roy Einar <[email protected]
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tuesday 26. November 2013 10:58:18 Mark Seger wrote:
>>>> > the 64 bit counters don't include the extended counters like XmitWait
>>>> and
>>>> > at least at the time of QDR when we had more time between samples, we
>>>> > decided the extended counters were more important. sounds like we
>>>> need to
>>>> > revisit that decision.
>>>> > -mark
>>>>
>>>> (Just picking up an old thread here)
>>>>
>>>> Can we have a switch for turning on the extended counters for the
>>>> bandwidth?
>>>> I guess collectl would have to do a second pass with perfquery -x then
>>>> to pick
>>>> up the 64-bit counters and let them overwrite the 32bit ones. I tried
>>>> to grep
>>>> through the source but could not really find the place to insert the
>>>> magic (my
>>>> perl knowledge is limited).
>>>>
>>>> r.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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