Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

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On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:59 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:46:04PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:40 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote:
> > 
> > > This is also a problem for systems with functional BMCs.  Our
> > > large cluster systems do all IPMI traffic (monitoring) through
> > > a system controller back door.  We do not want the kernel
> > > doing IPMI commands on those systems.
> > 
> > Why not?
> 
> Because some customers want to use cpu cycles for their
> application and let the ipmi monitoring go on through
> the system controller network.

Why is it generating any significant amount of CPU load? We're not
talking about a high-bandwidth interface here.

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