Messages in this thread | | | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y" | Date | Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:00:48 +0000 |
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On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:59 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:46:04PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:40 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > > > This is also a problem for systems with functional BMCs. Our > > > large cluster systems do all IPMI traffic (monitoring) through > > > a system controller back door. We do not want the kernel > > > doing IPMI commands on those systems. > > > > Why not? > > Because some customers want to use cpu cycles for their > application and let the ipmi monitoring go on through > the system controller network.
Why is it generating any significant amount of CPU load? We're not talking about a high-bandwidth interface here.
-- Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
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