Hi, ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 2:30:33 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx5: give back valid speed/width even without plugged in SFP module
On 10/27/2017 4:33 PM, Parav Pandit wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Hal Rosenstock [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 3:19 PM >> To: Parav Pandit <[email protected]>; Thomas Bogendoerfer >> <[email protected]>; Matan Barak <[email protected]>; Leon >> Romanovsky <[email protected]>; Doug Ledford <[email protected]>; >> [email protected]; [email protected] >> Cc: Ghazale Hosseinabadi <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx5: give back valid speed/width even without >> plugged >> in SFP module >> >> On 10/27/2017 2:32 PM, Parav Pandit wrote: >>> However I believe that ibstat tool should be enhanced to report unknown port >> speed instead of expecting drivers to supply some random number like this. >> >> ibstat gets the rate from libibumad via /sys/class/infiniband/<IB >> device>/ports/<port number>/rate file which is supposed to be populated by >> the >> driver. Is there no rate file in this error case ? >> > <...>/<port_num>/rate file exist. > > rate_show() has invalid active_width as expected due to nonexistence of SFP. > So sysfs call return invalid value. > We don't have invalid_active_width defined right now. > So ibstat and other applications should not crash on such valid errors. Agreed. I haven't seen ibstat crash reported though. Can someone provide the crash details ? When running ibstat (if transceiver is not connected in adapter): ibpanic: [7851] main: stat of IB device 'mlx5_1' failed: Invalid argument Thanks, Ghazale
