From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Wise Subject: Re: ibstat does not recognize iWARP RNIC adapters Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:36:02 -0500 Message-ID: <4F996B62.2030707@opengridcomputing.com> References: <8A71B368A89016469F72CD08050AD3340B8AAE7F@maui.asicdesigners.com> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373469D85A8@ORSMSX101.amr.corp.intel.com> <4F995001.7050306@opengridcomputing.com> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373469D860B@ORSMSX101.amr.corp.intel.com> <4F99586F.5040106@opengridcomputing.com> <4F995E5C.1090705@dev.mellanox.co.il> <4F996A71.6090309@dev.mellanox.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4F996A71.6090309-LDSdmyG8hGV8YrgS2mwiifqBs+8SCbDb@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Hal Rosenstock Cc: "Hefty, Sean" , Troy Leedberg , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On 04/26/2012 10:32 AM, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On 4/26/2012 10:40 AM, Hal Rosenstock wrote: >> On 4/26/2012 10:15 AM, Steve Wise wrote: >>> On 04/26/2012 09:12 AM, Hefty, Sean wrote: >>>>> Users seem to expect ibstat to show all rdma devices... >>>> They why not change ibstat to use ibverbs or have it gather its data >>>> directly? >>> Could do. >>> >>> What is the difference between ibstat and ibv_devinfo anyway? >> What they present to the user is similar. How they obtain their data is >> different and useful to debugging issues IMO. > One other point: > > Currently, for an IB management only node (at least in Linux), there is > no requirement for libibverbs. > > -- Hal > Hal/Sean, I defer to you on whether you think we should add this change to ibstat. If you all recommend against it, we'll advise customers to use ibv_devinfo, which is included with libibverbs and is required for iwarp user apps. But it seems a minimal change to add, and previously it did include iwarp devices. steve. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html