On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:16 AM, Corey Minyard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/09/2013 04:00 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>
>> IPMI in polled mode sucks enough that this warning is alarming:
>>
>> ipmi_si ipmi_si.0: Could not enable interrupts, failed set, using polled
>> mode.
>>
>> On two of my Dell gen 7 (I think) servers, this warning prints, but
>> IPMI uses interrupts.  Can the warning be fixed?
>>
>> (I have a server that says this, and IPMI, if loaded, sucks CPU.  That
>> server should keep the warning.)
>
>
> That warning means that it tried to send the command to enable interrupts,
> and the command failed.  The controller is supposed to accept that command
> if it has interrupts, so there's not really a way, outside of some sort of
> blacklist, for the code to know that a system has interrupts even if the
> command fails.
>

Somehow the driver manages not to poll on this system.  How does that work?

--Andy

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