On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 15:41 -0700, Dave Olson wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2008, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > | On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 15:08 -0700, Dave Olson wrote: > | > Ralph Campbell will submit this patch for ofed 1.3.1, also. > | > > | > IB/MAD - fix crash when HCA returns > IB_MAD_RESULT_SUCCESS|IB_MAD_RESULT_CONSUMED > | > > | > This was observed with the hw/ipath driver, but could happen with any > | > driver. > | > | Does this also occur with mthca/mlx4 ? Was the same thing that caused > | this on ipath tried with either of these HCAs ? > > No, it doesn't happen on mthca/mlx4, but presumably those drivers never > return this value. Yes, we tried it with them. No problem is > introduced on those by the change, either. > > | > It's OFED bug 1027. > | > | What's the port disable command which causes this crash ? > > It was with the qlogic quicksilver command iba_portdisable > and iba_portenable commands (they've been ported to work with OFED 1.3). > > ibportstate refuses to work on non-switch nodes,
Right. > although in the past > we've done local modifications to allow it to work on HCAs as well > (we never submitted that change, because we assumed somebody explictly > didn't want HCAs targetted). Yes, it was a conscious choice discussed on the list. It's so people don't shoot themselves in the foot as once a port is disabled, it might not be so easy to enable it depending on the configuration (out of band access might be needed to reenable). The only configurations where that would be limiting would be CA<->CA and CA<->router without intervening switches. -- Hal > Dave Olson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
