Linux 5.5 Block Changes Include NVMe Temperature Monitoring, Optimizations

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.5 Block Changes Include NVMe Temperature Monitoring, Optimizations

The Linux 5.5 block changes landed earlier this week with a wide variety of driver and core improvements. There are some I/O optimizations to make the pull exciting as well as the NVMe HWMON drive temperature reporting integration...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.5-Block-Changes

[AsuMagic]

... Just days before my NVMe SSD ships. How convenient.

[Danny3]

I hope that the Ubuntu kernel team they will enable this soon.

[caligula]

"Up until now you needed the NVMe user-space utilities installed and generally had to run it as root in order to see drive temperatures"

Or smartctl:

$ sudo smartctl --all /dev/nvme0n1|grep Temp
Warning Comp. Temp. Threshold: 77 Celsius
Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold: 79 Celsius
Temperature: 45 Celsius
Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Temperature Sensor 1: 45 Celsius
Temperature Sensor 2: 49 Celsius