[PATCH] ipmi: This patch decreases the IPMI message transaction time in Interrupt mode

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Subject: [PATCH] This patch  decreases the IPMI message transaction time in Interrupt mode
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 In function sender(), start_next_msg(smi_info) is when the driver is ready to send the data to BMC,
 but counts on the timeout to start the transaction.In interrupt mode what I observed is that driver
 simply wastes time, counting on the timer to trigger the transaction.  What I have done here is to
 cut the wait,and trigger the call to the handler.
 This patch considerably decreases the IPMI transaction time (cuts off ~9ms for a single ipmitool transaction).

 Signed-off-by: Srinivas_Gowda <srinivas_g_gowda@dell.com>
---
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index 9397ab4..5d1e0ca 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -932,8 +932,10 @@ static void sender(void                *send_info,
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&smi_info->msg_lock, flags);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&smi_info->si_lock, flags);
-	if (smi_info->si_state == SI_NORMAL && smi_info->curr_msg == NULL)
+	if (smi_info->si_state == SI_NORMAL && smi_info->curr_msg == NULL) {
 		start_next_msg(smi_info);
+		mod_timer(&smi_info->si_timer, jiffies + 1);
+	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&smi_info->si_lock, flags);
 }