linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] [PATCH 7/8] drivers/hwmon: Add a generic PECI hwmon client driver

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Message-ID: <b506b4b1-7e7d-abd6-bac2-c45e7c1e0aae@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:29:27 -0800
From:   Jae Hyun Yoo <jae.hyun.yoo@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, joel@....id.au,
        andrew@...id.au, arnd@...db.de, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        jdelvare@...e.com, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] [PATCH 7/8] drivers/hwmon: Add a generic PECI
 hwmon client driver

On 2/21/2018 4:37 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> But even with this change, it still needs to use delayed creation
>> because BMC side kernel doesn't know how many DIMMs are populated on
>> a remote server before the remote server completes its memory
>> training and testing in BIOS, but it needs to check the remote
>> server's CPU temperature as immediate as possible to make
>> appropriate thermal control based on the remote CPU's temperature to
>> avoid any critical thermal issue. What would be a better solution in
>> this case?
> 
> You could change this driver so that it supports one DIMM.  Move the
> 'hotplug' part into another driver which creates and destroys
> instances of the hwmon DIMM device as the DIMMS come and go.
> 
> Also, do you need to handle CPU hotplug? You could split the CPU
> temperature part into a separate hwmon driver? And again create and
> destroy devices as CPUs come and go?
> 
> 	Andrew
> 

That seems like a possible option. I'll rewrite the hwmon driver again 
like that.

Thanks for the good idea. :)

Jae