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[PATCH] IPMI: use schedule in kthread 

Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>

The kthread used to speed up polling for IPMI was using udelay in its
busy-wait polling loop when the lower-level state machine told it to do a
short delay.  This just used CPU and didn't help scheduling, thus causing
bad problems with other tasks.  Call schedule() instead.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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akpm@osdl.org 2006-06-27 02:54:04 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent c32e066057
commit 33979734cd
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drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
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@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ static int ipmi_thread(void *data)
/* do nothing */
}
else if (smi_result == SI_SM_CALL_WITH_DELAY)
udelay(1);
schedule();
else
schedule_timeout_interruptible(1);
}