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I bet most people who enable this extension are using Thunderbolt in a manner that requires it to always be on and not have type of "auto" power mode where it could be turned on or off to save power. For me, I am running into issues with using thunderbolt for a Ceph ring and I've noticed every so often that the thunderbolt interfaces are dropped on node loss which requires me to replug the thunderbolt cable or reboot my cluster nodes. It would be great if the thunderbolt extension could include this by default, since infrastructure/server use cases generally need stable, always-on connectivity rather than power-saving behavior. Signed-off-by: Devin Buhl <onedr0p@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrey.smirnov@siderolabs.com>
thunderbolt-drivers extension
Installation
Usage
Enable the thunderbolt module in Talos machine config.
If you need Thunderbolt/USB4 networking,
enable thunderbolt_net module as well.
machine:
kernel:
modules:
- name: thunderbolt
- name: thunderbolt_net
Verifiying
You can verify the modules are enabled by reading the /proc/modules where it should show the module is live.
For example:
❯ talosctl -n 192.168.42.15 read /proc/modules
thunderbolt_net 24576 - - Live 0xffffffffc0414000
thunderbolt 299008 - - Live 0xffffffffc03ca00
In addition, if you're using networking, you should be able to verify presence of the network interfaces, checking /sys/class/net directory.
For example:
❯ talosctl -n 192.168.42.15 ls /sys/class/net/ | grep -E 'NODE|thunderbolt'
NODE NAME
192.168.42.15 thunderbolt0
192.168.42.15 thunderbolt1
You can also verify everything in dmesg:
❯ talosctl -n 192.168.42.15 dmesg
# look for lines like these:
10.100.52.1: kern: info: [2023-07-23T16:47:28.22083266Z]: ACPI: bus type thunderbolt registered
10.100.52.1: kern: info: [2023-07-23T16:47:30.48512066Z]: thunderbolt 0-0:1.1: new retimer found, vendor=0x8087 device=0x15ee
SUBSYSTEM=thunderbolt
DEVICE=+thunderbolt:0-0:1.1
10.100.52.1: kern: info: [2023-07-23T16:47:32.76328066Z]: thunderbolt 1-0:1.1: new retimer found, vendor=0x8087 device=0x15ee
SUBSYSTEM=thunderbolt
DEVICE=+thunderbolt:1-0:1.1
10.100.52.1: kern: info: [2023-07-23T16:47:37.34770966Z]: thunderbolt 0-1: new host found, vendor=0x8086 device=0x1
SUBSYSTEM=thunderbolt
DEVICE=+thunderbolt:0-1
10.100.52.1: kern: info: [2023-07-23T16:47:37.34917566Z]: thunderbolt 0-1: Intel Corp. talos-node-2
SUBSYSTEM=thunderbolt
DEVICE=+thunderbolt:0-1
10.100.52.1: kern: info: [2023-07-23T16:47:39.74636466Z]: thunderbolt 1-1: new host found, vendor=0x8086 device=0x1
SUBSYSTEM=thunderbolt
DEVICE=+thunderbolt:1-1
10.100.52.1: kern: info: [2023-07-23T16:47:39.74767966Z]: thunderbolt 1-1: Intel Corp. talos-node-3
SUBSYSTEM=thunderbolt
DEVICE=+thunderbolt:1-1
Security Warning
This extension automatically authorizes all Thunderbolt devices during system boot, which poses potential security risks. Use at your own discretion.
Power Management
This extension automatically disabled power savings on all Thunderbolt ports, if you would like to re-enable that use the following udev rule in your machineconfig.
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="thunderbolt", ATTR{power/control}="auto"