Re: Issue with MLX5 IB driver

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> On Jun 1, 2017, at 2:59 PM, Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> 
>>> After search in /sys I found the mellanox device mlx5_0
>> 
>>> (/sys/class/infiniband/mlx5_0/) and was able to execute ibstat on it:
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> #  ibstat mlx5_0
>> 
>>> CA 'mlx5_0'
>> 
>>>       CA type: MT4121
>> 
>>>       Number of ports: 1
>> 
>>>       Firmware version: 16.19.21102
>> 
>>>       Hardware version: 0
>> 
>>>       Node GUID: 0x248a070300aa8466
>> 
>>>       System image GUID: 0x248a070300aa8466
>> 
>>>       Port 1:
>> 
>>>               State: Down
>> 
>>>               Physical state: Disabled
>> 
>>>               Rate: 10
>> 
>>>               Base lid: 65535
>> 
>>>               LMC: 0
>> 
>>>               SM lid: 0
>> 
>>>               Capability mask: 0x2651e848
>> 
>>>               Port GUID: 0x248a070300aa8466
>> 
>>>               Link layer: InfiniBand
>> 
>>> #
>> 
>>> #
>> 
>>> # pwd
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> Shouldn't the device be visible in /dev?
>> 
>> Hi Joao,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I'm glad this solved your issue.
>> 
>> Under dev you will not see Mellanox devices. They are visible only under the sysfs path you found.
>> 
>> In /dev you might see the mst devices if you have mst running..
> 
> Thanks for the help Majd! I suggest the driver uses the 0 profile by default to
> avoid this kind of meomory problems. What do you think? I can make a patch for
> it if you agree.

I prefer to keep the default 2 which gives the best performance and is the more common use case.
We will try to make the driver more resilient and fallback to a lower profile if it can't load with the default one.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> 
>>> 
>> 
>>> Thanks.
>> 
>>> 
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