Re: [PATCH] IPMI: Add parameter to limit CPU usage in kipmid

[Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>]

Le jeudi 17 décembre 2009 23:08, Corey Minyard a écrit :
> I cleaned up the patch some.  I added some state results to the list of
> things to be busy waited for (should improve performance a bit) and
> changed the schedule_timeout_interruptible back to 1, since that's
> what it's supposed to be.  And I added some comments.

Thanks for doing this!

> I did some testing on my system here.  On my system, kipmid uses almost
> no CPU normally.  If I set the kipmid_max_busy_us value to 500, the
> interface was more than 5 times slower.  I had to set the value up to
> 35000 for it to go back to the normal performance, and it was pretty
> linear between the two values.  So this is definiately not for all
> systems.
> 
> Can you try this out to make sure its ok?

I don't have any hardware where I can test this myself. But hopefully
Martin does?

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3