linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] nvme: Add hardware monitoring support

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Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 15:58:56 -0800
From:   Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:     Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] nvme: Add hardware monitoring support

> > > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> >
> > This looks fine to me, but I'll wait a few more days to see if there are
> > any additional comments..
>
> User wants to know temperature of /dev/sda... and we already have an
> userspace tools knowing about smart, etc...

At least for my use cases, being able to use the thermal subsystem of
the kernel to cool things down when the SSD gets too hot is important.
Is there a way to do this with userspace tools feeding back to the
kernel's thermal subsystem?

>
> pavel@amd:/data/film$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sda
> /dev/sda: ST1000LM014-1EJ164: 48°C
>
> I see we also have sensors framework but it does _not_ handle
> harddrive temperatures.
>
> Does it need some kind of unification? Should NVMe devices expose
> "SMART" information in the same way other SSDs do?
>
> Best regards,
>                                                                 Pavel
> --
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