Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 09:33:22AM -0600, Steve Wise wrote:
Regardless, I don't see any way to know which if_index (or even if_name)
maps to which port on a multi-port rdma device. The /sys/class/.../net:*
entries show both port device if_names, but there is really no way
to know
Well, I suppose no matter what you do, you have to start there :)
Isn't this information available through sysfs?
It looks pretty easy to find out which ipoib devices are on the same
PCI device through sysfs, but I don't immediately see a way to get the
port number it is bound too (this should probably be added..)
which one is port 1 and which one is port 2. With interface renaming, it is
not necessarily true, for example, given an rnic with 2 ports setup as eth1
and eth2, that eth1 maps to port 1 of a device and eth2 maps to port 2.
They could be renamed to anything. Does if_index remain constant?
IE maybe
if_index is constant once the device is created until it is
destroyed. Renames do not affect if_index. I suppose it is possible
that with enough device creation/destruction if_index will wrap, and
then it won't have port1 < port2 anymore..
Jason
Perhaps the best way is to add a new sysfs entry that makes it explicit
which if_index maps to which rdma device port. Or maybe add if_index to
the ibv_port_attr structure...
Steve.
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