From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ira Weiny Subject: Re: ib-diags: compatability issue with ibstat Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:32:54 -0700 Message-ID: <20110921153254.06c77ebc.weiny2@llnl.gov> References: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A8237316E66F5B@ORSMSX101.amr.corp.intel.com> <20110921151349.140d95f6.weiny2@llnl.gov> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A8237316E6723E@ORSMSX101.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A8237316E6723E-P5GAC/sN6hmkrb+BlOpmy7fspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Hefty, Sean" Cc: "linux-rdma (linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org)" , "ofw-ZwoEplunGu1OwGhvXhtEPSCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:23:45 -0700 "Hefty, Sean" wrote: > > Does this mean "ibstatus" does not work on Windows? > > We do not support any of the scripts on windows. As far as I could tell, the scripts look like they just do post-processing of available output. > Good to know, thanks. > > How are you proposing the addition to ibverbs? It seems this would break ABI > > there. > > On windows, libibumad uses libibverbs to obtain whatever data it needs. I'm assuming that a non-MAD application will eventually be able to use ibverbs to determine the rate, without needing to parse data from some file. > > > Does windows have sysfs like capabilities which would make the separate layer > > clean? > > There's nothing like sysfs on windows. If the data is available from ibverbs, windows could pull the data from there, even if the diags do not want to rely on ibverbs on the linux side. > To be clear I am not against using ibverbs on the linux side. It sounds like that would be the best move going forward. Ira > - Sean -- Ira Weiny Math Programmer/Computer Scientist Lawrence Livermore National Lab 925-423-8008 weiny2-i2BcT+NCU+M@public.gmane.org -- 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