[Beowulf] Any pointers to the what the fields in the sysfs for infiniband are?

[Eliot Eshelman]

This is the best I've found. It's verbose, but will shed some light.

InfiniBand Architecture Specification (16MB PDF)
http://www.afs.enea.it/asantoro/V1r1_2_1.Release_12062007.pdf

Best,
Eliot


On 06/12/2016 08:34 PM, Joe Landman wrote:
> I am working on extracting meaningful data on various components for 
> our monitoring tools, and realized that I don't have a good writeup 
> anywhere (other than the source) of what the fields are.  Anyone have 
> or know of such a writeup?
>
> For example:
>
> root at n01:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:02:00.0/infiniband/mlx5_0/ports/1/counters_ext# 
> pwd/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:02:00.0/infiniband/mlx5_0/ports/1/counters_ext 
>
> root at n01:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:02:00.0/infiniband/mlx5_0/ports/1/counters_ext# 
> ls -alF
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 Jun 12 21:19 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root    0 Jun 12 21:19 ../
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jun 12 21:19 port_multicast_rcv_packets
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jun 12 21:19 port_multicast_xmit_packets
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jun 12 21:19 port_rcv_data_64
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jun 12 21:19 port_rcv_packets_64
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jun 12 21:19 port_unicast_rcv_packets
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jun 12 21:19 port_unicast_xmit_packets
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jun 12 21:19 port_xmit_data_64
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jun 12 21:19 port_xmit_packets_64
>
> I can infer a number of things from the names, but I'd like to be sure 
> of what I am looking at.  I'll look at the source if I can't find a 
> summary ... hence my question.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>


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Eliot Eshelman
Microway, Inc.