PECI-dimm timeout settings.

[Jae Hyun Yoo]

On 12/12/2019 11:11 PM, Derek Lin23 wrote:
> Hi team:
> 
>            I have a question regarding PECI-dimm timeout period.
> 
>            From the top of peci-dimmtemp.c, the timeout period is set to 
> 5 minutes.
> 
>            So, what would happen if timeout is reached but DIMM 
> temperature cannot be fetched from PECI channel?
> 
>         Please provide some inputs.

Hi Derek,

If peci-dimmtemp reaches the 5 minutes timeout, it stops scanning of
DIMM presence checking and no hwmon sysfs interface will be exposed.
You might adjust the timeout setting if host booting take long time than
usual.

Cheers,

Jae

> Thank you,
> 
> Derek
>