Isabelle, Francois wrote:
> Hi,
>   I'm getting quiet a few "long_timeouts" in /proc/ipmi/0/si_stats. (kernel 
> 2.4.32 with IPMI v39)
>
> cat /proc/ipmi/0/si_stats
> interrupts_enabled:    1
> short_timeouts:        0
> long_timeouts:         8575138
> timeout_restarts:      0
> idles:                 2864059
> interrupts:            10091993
> attentions:            3674
> flag_fetches:          72295
> hosed_count:           0
> complete_transactions: 996609
> events:                3591
> watchdog_pretimeouts:  0
> incoming_messages:     96
>
>
> I've been doing all kind of tests and the interface is running very smoothly 
> but I wonder
> if I should be concerned by the rather high number of long_timeouts.
>   
> Under what condition is the "timeout" reached ? 
> What is the behavior of the driver when a "timeout" is reached ?
>   
"Timeouts" is perhaps a bad name.  Those are the internal timer polling 
timeouts, so this is completely normal.

> I think I don't get "short timeouts" because the interface is interrupt 
> driven, can that affect 
> the responsiveness of the interface ?
>   
Yes, the driver doesn't do short timeouts if interrupts are enabled 
because it doesn't need them to improve the performance.
> Thanks in advance for taking a minute to answer these questions.
>
> Francois Isabelle
>   
-Corey

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