[Orca-users] Re: Submission for a fix to qe interface Input/Ouput KB/sec issue in SE Toolkit as it affects Orca

[Blair Zajac]

Sean,

The best place to send this is to the SE feedback mailing list

    se-feedback at chessie.eng.sun.com

or to Adrian or Rich Petit directly and ask them to include the patch,
since I can't do anything about that.

I know they are working on a SE 3.2 release.  I have several comments
to help make this patch included in the new release:

1) Use diffs with either the -u or -c command line option to make them
   easier to apply to newer code.
2) Make sure that the modified netif.se and kstat.se are coded in
   such a way that they also work on older versions of Solaris.  My
   guess is that the inclusion of these fields may break SE on older
   Solaris versions if the kernel doesn't have these data structures.

Regards,
Blair

"O'Neill, Sean" wrote:
> 
> I submit this because I have a SS20 with a quad qe board.  I know the
> board
> is discontinued but I wanted MY GRAPHS !!!!  Peter Radcliff posted
> last year
> that the SE folks said that the qe interface driver doesn't supply
> Input/Output KB statistics.  Well, I noticed that in netstat -k, the
> qe
> interface does have this information just like the le interface.  So I
> started nosing around and found that the /usr/include/sys/qe.h include
> file
> with Solaris 8 supplies the same MIB information for Input/Output just
> like
> the le interface file.
> 
> So far my graphs look correct.
> 
> I changed the following:
> 
> # cd /opt/RICHPse/include
> # diff netif.se netif.se.orig
> 232,234d231
> <       ooctets        = if_qe.obytes + if_qe.multixmt +
> if_qe.brdcstxmt;
> <       ioctets        = if_qe.rbytes + if_qe.multircv +
> if_qe.brdcstrcv;
> 
> And:
> 
> # cd /opt/RICHPse/include
> # diff kstat.se kstat.se.orig
> 649,658d648
> < /* Added 2/09/2001 - SON */
> <     ulong_t  rbytes;
> <     ulong_t  obytes;
> <     ulong_t  multircv;
> <     ulong_t  multixmt;
> <     ulong_t  brdcstrcv;
> <     ulong_t  brdcstxmt;
> <     ulong_t  norcvbuf;
> <     ulong_t  noxmtbuf;
> < /* Added 2/09/2001 - SON */
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Radcliffe [mailto:pir at pir.net]
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 1:25 AM
> To: O'Neill, Sean
> Subject: Re: Question on post you made on 4/25/2000 to orca-users
> 
> sean.oneill at commerceone.com probably said:
> > On 4/25/2000 you posted a question to the orca-users group asking if
> 
> > anyone had ever seen the problem of no data showing up for KB/sec on
> 
> > qe interfaces.  Did you ever receive back an answer.
> >
> > I have an old SS20 running Solaris 8 with a quad qe board that has
> > exact same issue. Data for packets/sec and other network stuff but
> > nothing for KB/sec.
> 
> I was sure I posted the reply to that problem - I was told by Adrian
> Cockcroft that the qe driver does not provide that information for SE
> to take, and since the qe card is long discontinued it probably never
> will. The qfe driver does provide that information, so replacing the
> card is the only known workaround :/
> 
> P.
> 
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