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

[<Srinivas_G_Gowda@Dell.com>]

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On 10/19/2011 11:01 AM, Gowda, Srinivas G wrote:

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Subject: [PATCH] This patch  decreases the IPMI message transaction time in Interrupt mode
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 What I have done this time is to directly call 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);
+		smi_event_handler(smi_info, 0);
+	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&smi_info->si_lock, flags);
 }