From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: + ipmi-change-timeout-and-event-poll-to-one-second.patch added to -mm tree Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 15:54:22 -0700 Message-ID: <201005042254.o44MsMnl023818@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:57964 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934496Ab0EDWyZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2010 18:54:25 -0400 Sender: mm-commits-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org Cc: cminyard@mvista.com The patch titled ipmi: change timeout and event poll to one second has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ipmi-change-timeout-and-event-poll-to-one-second.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ipmi: change timeout and event poll to one second From: Corey Minyard The timeouts in IPMI are in the 1-5 second range in message handling, so a 1 second timeout is a reasonable thing to do. This should help with reducing power consumption on idle systems. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c~ipmi-change-timeout-and-event-poll-to-one-second drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c~ipmi-change-timeout-and-event-poll-to-one-second +++ a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c @@ -4037,8 +4037,8 @@ static void ipmi_request_event(void) static struct timer_list ipmi_timer; -/* Call every ~100 ms. */ -#define IPMI_TIMEOUT_TIME 100 +/* Call every ~1000 ms. */ +#define IPMI_TIMEOUT_TIME 1000 /* How many jiffies does it take to get to the timeout time. */ #define IPMI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES ((IPMI_TIMEOUT_TIME * HZ) / 1000) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from cminyard@mvista.com are linux-next.patch ipmi-change-addr_source-to-an-enum-rather-than-strings.patch ipmi-split-device-discovery-and-registration.patch ipmi-only-register-one-si-per-bmc.patch ipmi-change-device-discovery-order.patch ipmi-reduce-polling-when-interrupts-are-available.patch ipmi-reduce-polling.patch ipmi-attempt-to-register-multiple-sis-of-the-same-type.patch ipmi-change-timeout-and-event-poll-to-one-second.patch