From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: minyard@acm.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peter@palfrader.org,
openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH] IPMI: use schedule in kthread
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:04:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060626150434.GA14109@lists.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060626140819.GA17804@localdomain>
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:08:19AM -0500, @ wrote:
> The kthread used to speed up polling for IPMI was using udelay
> 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>
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next parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-26 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060626140819.GA17804@localdomain>
2006-06-26 15:04 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
2006-06-26 19:00 ` [PATCH] IPMI: use schedule in kthread Andrew Morton
2006-06-26 19:49 ` Matt Domsch
2006-06-26 19:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-26 20:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-06-26 19:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-26 19:52 ` Corey Minyard
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