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diff --git a/Documentation/infiniband/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/infiniband/sysfs.txt index 77570d16b170..9fab5062f84b 100644 --- a/Documentation/infiniband/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/infiniband/sysfs.txt @@ -1,129 +1,4 @@ SYSFS FILES - For each InfiniBand device, the InfiniBand drivers create the - following files under /sys/class/infiniband/<device name>: - - node_type - Node type (CA, switch or router) - node_guid - Node GUID - sys_image_guid - System image GUID - - In addition, there is a "ports" subdirectory, with one subdirectory - for each port. For example, if mthca0 is a 2-port HCA, there will - be two directories: - - /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/ports/1 - /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/ports/2 - - (A switch will only have a single "0" subdirectory for switch port - 0; no subdirectory is created for normal switch ports) - - In each port subdirectory, the following files are created: - - cap_mask - Port capability mask - lid - Port LID - lid_mask_count - Port LID mask count - rate - Port data rate (active width * active speed) - sm_lid - Subnet manager LID for port's subnet - sm_sl - Subnet manager SL for port's subnet - state - Port state (DOWN, INIT, ARMED, ACTIVE or ACTIVE_DEFER) - phys_state - Port physical state (Sleep, Polling, LinkUp, etc) - - There is also a "counters" subdirectory, with files - - VL15_dropped - excessive_buffer_overrun_errors - link_downed - link_error_recovery - local_link_integrity_errors - port_rcv_constraint_errors - port_rcv_data - port_rcv_errors - port_rcv_packets - port_rcv_remote_physical_errors - port_rcv_switch_relay_errors - port_xmit_constraint_errors - port_xmit_data - port_xmit_discards - port_xmit_packets - symbol_error - - Each of these files contains the corresponding value from the port's - Performance Management PortCounters attribute, as described in - section 16.1.3.5 of the InfiniBand Architecture Specification. - - The "pkeys" and "gids" subdirectories contain one file for each - entry in the port's P_Key or GID table respectively. For example, - ports/1/pkeys/10 contains the value at index 10 in port 1's P_Key - table. - - There is an optional "hw_counters" subdirectory that may be under either - the parent device or the port subdirectories or both. If present, - there are a list of counters provided by the hardware. They may match - some of the counters in the counters directory, but they often include - many other counters. In addition to the various counters, there will - be a file named "lifespan" that configures how frequently the core - should update the counters when they are being accessed (counters are - not updated if they are not being accessed). The lifespan is in milli- - seconds and defaults to 10 unless set to something else by the driver. - Users may echo a value between 0 - 10000 to the lifespan file to set - the length of time between updates in milliseconds. - -MTHCA - - The Mellanox HCA driver also creates the files: - - hw_rev - Hardware revision number - fw_ver - Firmware version - hca_type - HCA type: "MT23108", "MT25208 (MT23108 compat mode)", - or "MT25208" - -HFI1 - - The hfi1 driver also creates these additional files: - - hw_rev - hardware revision - board_id - manufacturing board id - tempsense - thermal sense information - serial - board serial number - nfreectxts - number of free user contexts - nctxts - number of allowed contexts (PSM2) - chip_reset - diagnostic (root only) - boardversion - board version - - sdma<N>/ - one directory per sdma engine (0 - 15) - sdma<N>/cpu_list - read-write, list of cpus for user-process to sdma - engine assignment. - sdma<N>/vl - read-only, vl the sdma engine maps to. - - The new interface will give the user control on the affinity settings - for the hfi1 device. - As an example, to set an sdma engine irq affinity and thread affinity - of a user processes to use the sdma engine, which is "near" in terms - of NUMA configuration, or physical cpu location, the user will do: - - echo "3" > /proc/irq/<N>/smp_affinity_list - echo "4-7" > /sys/devices/.../sdma3/cpu_list - cat /sys/devices/.../sdma3/vl - 0 - echo "8" > /proc/irq/<M>/smp_affinity_list - echo "9-12" > /sys/devices/.../sdma4/cpu_list - cat /sys/devices/.../sdma4/vl - 1 - - to make sure that when a process runs on cpus 4,5,6, or 7, - and uses vl=0, then sdma engine 3 is selected by the driver, - and also the interrupt of the sdma engine 3 is steered to cpu 3. - Similarly, when a process runs on cpus 9,10,11, or 12 and sets vl=1, - then engine 4 will be selected and the irq of the sdma engine 4 is - steered to cpu 8. - This assumes that in the above N is the irq number of "sdma3", - and M is irq number of "sdma4" in the /proc/interrupts file. - - ports/1/ - CCMgtA/ - cc_settings_bin - CCA tables used by PSM2 - cc_table_bin - cc_prescan - enable prescaning for faster BECN response - sc2v/ - 32 files (0 - 31) used to translate sl->vl - sl2sc/ - 32 files (0 - 31) used to translate sl->sc - vl2mtu/ - 16 (0 - 15) files used to determine MTU for vl +The sysfs interface has moved to +Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-infiniband. |