Hi David, On 09:52 Mon 23 Jul , David McMillen wrote: > > There are a standard set of command line options that allow specification of > the CA to use for sending the requests. I'm adding these to programs that > don't have them, since they are very useful when diagnosing a node connected > to multiple subnets. Even if you discount multiple subnets on purpose, > sometimes this happens when the hardware connecting all of the CA ports to > the same place gets broken, and that is when you need diagnostics that can > help figure out what is where. > > The standard options are: > > -C <ca_name> use the specified ca_name. > > -P <ca_port> use the specified ca_port. > > -t <timeout_ms> override the default timeout for the solicited mads. > > My problem is that saquery already uses -C and -P, although the -t exists > for the expected purpose. Also, ibcheckerrs already uses -t for specifying > the threshold file.
I think unified command line options over diags are good thing, so I guess reasonable renaming should be acceptable. > > Changing the timeout for ibcheckerrs isn't critical, but not being able to > do it doesn't seem right. However, the saquery command could be really > handy for figuring out split fabrics, and is useful to those of us that > connect to multiple subnets. > > Does anybody have a useful suggestion? '-T' for the threshold file? But it is easy part - saquery renames are less intuitive :(. Probably just lower case? Or special query option (-q or -Q), so queries could be specified as -qP, -qC? Sasha _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
