On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:23:45 -0700
"Hefty, Sean" <sean.he...@intel.com> wrote:

> > Does this mean "ibstatus" does not work on Windows?
> 
> We do not support any of the scripts on windows.  As far as I could tell, the 
> scripts look like they just do post-processing of available output.
>  

Good to know, thanks.

> > How are you proposing the addition to ibverbs?  It seems this would break 
> > ABI
> > there.
> 
> On windows, libibumad uses libibverbs to obtain whatever data it needs.  I'm 
> assuming that a non-MAD application will eventually be able to use ibverbs to 
> determine the rate, without needing to parse data from some file.
> 
> > Does windows have sysfs like capabilities which would make the separate 
> > layer
> > clean?
> 
> There's nothing like sysfs on windows.  If the data is available from 
> ibverbs, windows could pull the data from there, even if the diags do not 
> want to rely on ibverbs on the linux side.
> 

To be clear I am not against using ibverbs on the linux side.  It sounds like 
that would be the best move going forward.

Ira

> - Sean


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Ira Weiny
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Lawrence Livermore National Lab
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