Re: [Openib-windows] Re: [openib-general] Re: IB Diagnositic Tools

2005-07-04 Thread Bernhard Fischer
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:22:00AM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 17:30, Hal Rosenstock wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 17:13, Bernhard Fischer wrote: Hal, This is kinda offtopic, Yes, this is different topic(s). but (iirc) i once stumbled over the issue of port

[openib-general] RE: IB Diagnositic Tools

2005-06-28 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 15:27, Eitan Zahavi wrote: The current OpenIB topology file has a place where these annotations can be made (and displayed). [EZ] How would you define the internal structure of a 288port switch in the existing topology file? Would it support writing code that is

[openib-general] RE: IB Diagnositic Tools

2005-06-28 Thread Eitan Zahavi
Title: RE: IB Diagnositic Tools [EZ] How would you define the internal structure of a 288port switch in the existing topology file? Would it support writing code that is able to report something like board spine2 of system mySwitch is missing? I think it could. [EZ] Anyway this

[openib-general] Re: IB Diagnositic Tools

2005-06-28 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. Hal Rosenstock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Will the Linux distros take it this way (with #ifdef OS) I never looked at opensm vendor layer, but generally in userspace code, it is not always worth it the effort to get rid of all os-dependent code. If you want an application to be portable, you

[openib-general] RE: IB Diagnositic Tools

2005-06-28 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 07:30, Eitan Zahavi wrote: [EZ] How would you define the internal structure of a 288port switch in the existing topology file? Would it support writing code that is able to report something like board spine2 of system mySwitch is missing? I think it could.

Re: [Openib-windows] Re: [openib-general] Re: IB Diagnositic Tools

2005-06-28 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 17:30, Hal Rosenstock wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 17:13, Bernhard Fischer wrote: Hal, This is kinda offtopic, Yes, this is different topic(s). but (iirc) i once stumbled over the issue of port vs. mgmt port [back then i had access to two 2-port cards]

[openib-general] RE: IB Diagnositic Tools

2005-06-28 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 09:34, Eitan Zahavi wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 07:30, Eitan Zahavi wrote: [EZ] How would you define the internal structure of a 288port switch in the existing topology file? Would it support writing code that is able to report something like

[openib-general] RE: IB Diagnositic Tools

2005-06-27 Thread Fab Tillier
From: Eitan Zahavi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 12:25 PM Following the discussion about the debug tools, I would like to propose using OpenSM Vendor layer as a common layer for developing the debug tools. Since this layer is already available on both Windows and

[openib-general] Re: IB Diagnositic Tools

2005-06-27 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Hi Eitan, On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 15:25, Eitan Zahavi wrote: Following the discussion about the debug tools, I would like to propose using OpenSM Vendor layer as a common layer for developing the debug tools. Is the OpenSM vendor layer available in Windows for OpenIB or is this something

[openib-general] RE: IB Diagnositic Tools

2005-06-27 Thread Eitan Zahavi
Title: RE: IB Diagnositic Tools Hi Fabian I think this is a decent idea. My only reservations are that it would require everyone to learn the OSM Vendor Layer API. It might also not allow testing nuances in the access layer APIs, which might be useful. [EZ] This is true. But the API is

[openib-general] RE: IB Diagnositic Tools

2005-06-27 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Hi again Eitan, On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 14:29, Eitan Zahavi wrote: Hi Hal, Is the OpenSM vendor layer available in Windows for OpenIB or is this something which needs to be developed ? [EZ] It is available (the code was part of IBAL but needed some fixes etc). Needed or still needs

[openib-general] RE: IB Diagnositic Tools

2005-06-27 Thread Eitan Zahavi
Title: RE: IB Diagnositic Tools [EZ] It is available (the code was part of IBAL but needed some fixes etc). Needed or still needs some fixes ? [EZ] Under work but really close to completion The current OpenIB topology file has a place where these annotations can be made (and

Re: [openib-general] Re: IB Diagnositic Tools

2005-06-27 Thread Bernhard Fischer
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:04:16PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: Hi Eitan, On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 15:25, Eitan Zahavi wrote: Following the discussion about the debug tools, I would like to propose using OpenSM Vendor layer as a common layer for developing the debug tools. Hal, This is kinda

Re: [openib-general] Re: IB Diagnositic Tools

2005-06-27 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 17:13, Bernhard Fischer wrote: Hal, This is kinda offtopic, Yes, this is different topic(s). but (iirc) i once stumbled over the issue of port vs. mgmt port [back then i had access to two 2-port cards] where you may have said something along the lines of \There is