Re: [RFC PATCH iproute2-next] System specification health API

2018-09-25 Thread Eran Ben Elisha
On 9/16/2018 10:57 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: Why is this going under iproute rather than using one of the existing sensor API's. For example Intel NIC's have thermal sensors etc. Hi Stephen These are not that sort of sensors. This is part of the naming problem here. It is not really to do wit

Re: [RFC PATCH iproute2-next] System specification health API

2018-09-25 Thread Eran Ben Elisha
On 9/16/2018 1:37 PM, Eran Ben Elisha wrote: On 9/13/2018 8:36 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:18:15 +0300, Eran Ben Elisha wrote: The health spec is targeted for Real Time Alerting, in order to know when something bad had happened to a PCI device By spec you mean some

Re: [RFC PATCH iproute2-next] System specification health API

2018-09-16 Thread Andrew Lunn
> Why is this going under iproute rather than using one of the existing sensor > API's. > For example Intel NIC's have thermal sensors etc. Hi Stephen These are not that sort of sensors. This is part of the naming problem here. It is not really to do with health, it is about exceptions and bugs.

Re: [RFC PATCH iproute2-next] System specification health API

2018-09-16 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:36:04 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:18:15 +0300, Eran Ben Elisha wrote: > > The health spec is targeted for Real Time Alerting, in order to know when > > something bad had happened to a PCI device > > By spec you mean some standards body spec you i

Re: [RFC PATCH iproute2-next] System specification health API

2018-09-16 Thread Eran Ben Elisha
On 9/13/2018 8:36 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:18:15 +0300, Eran Ben Elisha wrote: The health spec is targeted for Real Time Alerting, in order to know when something bad had happened to a PCI device By spec you mean some standards body spec you implement or this proposa

Re: [RFC PATCH iproute2-next] System specification health API

2018-09-13 Thread Jakub Kicinski
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:18:15 +0300, Eran Ben Elisha wrote: > The health spec is targeted for Real Time Alerting, in order to know when > something bad had happened to a PCI device By spec you mean some standards body spec you implement or this proposal is a spec? > - Provide alert debug informati

[RFC PATCH iproute2-next] System specification health API

2018-09-13 Thread Eran Ben Elisha
The health spec is targeted for Real Time Alerting, in order to know when something bad had happened to a PCI device - Provide alert debug information - Self healing - If problem needs vendor support, provide a way to gather all needed debugging information. The health contains sensors which sen