From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932471AbWFZPEf (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:04:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932468AbWFZPEe (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:04:34 -0400 Received: from ausc60ps301.us.dell.com ([143.166.148.206]:33342 "EHLO ausc60ps301.us.dell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932447AbWFZPEc (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:04:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: s=smtpout; d=dell.com; c=nofws; q=dns; b=gIGhqrK6q1/HL0QT2A3bSHVibO1pa+B+A/nCL3ECZKafPazhNr5xgEGI/204AWj5fe1ZztaBeGwU2nAG5qdh3Z6PgTz9K9Qz7X04OTEmvN2zv3/cx6oJqQO+4q674f+u; X-IronPort-AV: i="4.06,176,1149483600"; d="scan'208"; a="35482340:sNHT56961828" Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:04:35 -0500 From: Matt Domsch To: minyard@acm.org Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peter@palfrader.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH] IPMI: use schedule in kthread Message-ID: <20060626150434.GA14109@lists.us.dell.com> References: <20060626140819.GA17804@localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060626140819.GA17804@localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Acked-by: Matt Domsch -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com