Feature Request: PCI/GPU/TPU/DPU zone

[emansom]

Currently there are two zones: one for processors and one for storage.

However, some servers (and retrofitted servers to desktop workstations) have PCIe devices with temperature sensors on them (e.g. AMD GPUs).

Creating another zone for special PCIe devices would help giving these devices extra airflow.

As well as possibly having an option to influence all zones with a certain percentage above a certain threshold, kind of like a boost, given some high-end PCIe devices often utilize more power than the rest of the system combined.

[BadCo-NZ]

I have a GPU server with three zones and this would be beneficial for using passive server grade GPUs.

[petersulyok]

My understanding is that IPMI predefined the mapping of the fans in CPU and HD zones. In this way smfc does not have any zone definition currently, it simply controls the whole zone without knowing which fans are belonging to that. And smfc cannot change the mapping of fans either.

At this point I don't see how could we control a single fan (e.g. FAN3) connected to a PCI device with the help of IPMI. Please elaborate more on this idea.